Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

Becoming a Mom Without Your Mom: The Grief Nobody Prepared You For

Name: Grieving My Parents by Finishing My Mom's Children's Book
Uploaded: 2026-10-11T15:48:12+00:00
Description: Kelsey Lizee Cecil on losing both parents and publishing Rally Takes the Train, the children's book her mom always wanted to write.

Becoming a mom without your mom often brings a fresh wave of grief, because motherhood puts you in the role she once held and raises questions only she could answer. That ache is common, it doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong, and it tends to come back at every first.