Life Coaching by Eileen Lang

Letting go has a series of stages and with each stage you have to let go a little more.Each time you lose another piece of yourself wondering if you will be able to reclaim a piece of your soul to replace the missing parts. It was inevitable that this time would come but, you seem less prepared for the fianl parts to be gone. There were bay showers to usher you into motherhood and somehow encourage you to lose yourself and give everything you had to it. Now there are no parties or even a mention to what is to come. They don't check in to see how it feels for you to be alone now and don't even give it a thought. You gave it the best years of your life to this quest and now you are older. Now you are left with this gapping hole in your life. You struggle not to place any guilt into the mix because that is what you were given at their age. The difference is now you know what it feels like realizing at the time you were cluelss to the pain when you were busy moving on with your life.

Celebrate their successes and find your own goals. Life has changed you have done a good job. But, stop holding on to what it was like in the past. Move forward catch your own breath.