{"id":79987,"date":"2026-05-10T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/motherless-daughters-coming-together-cbs-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:01:01","slug":"motherless-daughters-coming-together-cbs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/motherless-daughters-coming-together-cbs-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Motherless daughters: Coming together &#8211; CBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>On a mountaintop in Northern California, a group of women met for the first time. They call themselves &#8220;motherless daughters.&#8221; These women were all age 21 or younger when their moms died \u2013 many from illnesses like cancer, some more suddenly \u2013 and might find their life stories divided into a &#8220;before&#8221; and an &#8220;after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hope Edelman is the mother of Motherless Daughters. Since the first retreat in 2016, more than 500 women have attended at locations across the country. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We say at every retreat, there may be 20 women who came to the retreat, but there&#8217;s 40 women in the room,&#8221; Edelman said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a way to reaffirm that these aren&#8217;t just women who died; they&#8217;re also women who lived, and many of them lived joyously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/9634b5c9-a3ba-4878-85fd-dc4e64528b16\/thumbnail\/620x349\/a19425bf3a562a8262a0af0a55bd4d4e\/motherless-daughters-candles.jpg#\" alt=\"motherless-daughters-candles.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/9634b5c9-a3ba-4878-85fd-dc4e64528b16\/thumbnail\/620x349\/a19425bf3a562a8262a0af0a55bd4d4e\/motherless-daughters-candles.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/9634b5c9-a3ba-4878-85fd-dc4e64528b16\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/2ba732f96166ca58be08b0a77c3c811b\/motherless-daughters-candles.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The gatherings, like this one at Mount Madonna, include deep conversation, yoga, the sharing of meals, and the sharing of tears. One woman said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember her voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And even though some participants call this &#8220;sad camp,&#8221; there is lots of laughter. One woman said her mother loved to play pranks: &#8220;She would steal people&#8217;s stuff at work and, like, leave them ransom notes to find it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edelman says the women who come here feel seen. &#8220;Our mother was usually the person who saw us,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, many of us have not felt seen for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/0a3198be-0d71-4ecf-9624-9e00f059f1d1\/thumbnail\/620x349\/19f881a4dbedcee950273814f5edf7bf\/motherless-daughters-hope-edelman-at-retreat.jpg#\" alt=\"motherless-daughters-hope-edelman-at-retreat.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/0a3198be-0d71-4ecf-9624-9e00f059f1d1\/thumbnail\/620x349\/19f881a4dbedcee950273814f5edf7bf\/motherless-daughters-hope-edelman-at-retreat.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/0a3198be-0d71-4ecf-9624-9e00f059f1d1\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/9b246ea59221c8b51522f855b4a7cb46\/motherless-daughters-hope-edelman-at-retreat.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Hope Edelman (second from left) at a Motherless Daughters retreat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know this pain. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/faith-salie-on-mothers-day-without-a-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">I, too, am a motherless daughter<\/a><\/span>. I&#8217;m now years older than my mom ever lived to be. The older I get, the more I&#8217;m just grateful I had my mom \u2013 that I had her for the time I had her.<\/p>\n<p>Edelman&#8217;s mother died in 1981, at age 42. &#8220;My Mom had been <em>the<\/em> person, the emotional center of the family,&#8221; she said. Hope was just 17. <\/p>\n<p>In the years that followed, she tried to find stories that could help her understand her grief, which led to an idea: &#8220;When I started doing interviews and research and found other women and saw how similar our stories were, I knew there was going to be a book there,&#8221; Edelman said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/b1bc69d2-a512-4c93-a47a-f7b2810135cd\/thumbnail\/620x930\/39f950e92a8a1f332ef7b12ef57fcb10\/motherless-daughters-cover-balance-900.jpg#\" alt=\"motherless-daughters-cover-balance-900.jpg \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/b1bc69d2-a512-4c93-a47a-f7b2810135cd\/thumbnail\/620x930\/39f950e92a8a1f332ef7b12ef57fcb10\/motherless-daughters-cover-balance-900.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/b1bc69d2-a512-4c93-a47a-f7b2810135cd\/thumbnail\/1240x1860\/90169beae690e1bf747526a6ccb53ea8\/motherless-daughters-cover-balance-900.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Balance<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/hope-edelman\/motherless-daughters-20th-anniversary-edition\/9780738217734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss,&#8221;<\/a> published in 1994, was an instant bestseller. Now, &#8220;Motherless Daughters&#8221; is far more than a book; it&#8217;s a global support network and community founded by Edelman, who has received thousands of letters over the decades. <\/p>\n<p>She said that when motherless daughters find each other, &#8220;There&#8217;s an immediate sense of connection. One woman said years ago she felt like the alien finding the mothership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jennie Zhao, who says she has heard ever since she was little how much she looked like her mother, never met another person who&#8217;d lost their mom to suicide as a child, until she found this community. She is attending her third retreat. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The women in the Motherless Daughters community, they mirror back my own heart, my own goodness, my own compassion,&#8221; Zhao said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People often seek this sisterhood at turning points in their lives \u2013 a health crisis, motherhood, marriage, or when they hit the age their mother was when she died. <\/p>\n<p>Shaina was 14 when her mother died at age 47. This year she&#8217;s turning 47 herself. Now a mom with kids in their teens and twenties, she found herself in what she calls &#8220;uncharted&#8221; territory. &#8220;Deep down inside, that little girl is just there saying <em>I just want to hug my mom. I just want my mom to tell me it&#8217;s going to be okay,<\/em>&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>If your mother dies when she&#8217;s old, you likely miss what you had; if your mom dies when she&#8217;s young, you miss what you <em>never<\/em> had. Shaina says what she feels is a deep longing: &#8220;To be able to call your mom, to be able to ask her, <em>How do I do this? What is happening to my body? What is happening in my heart, in my mind?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Shaina says that motherhood brought her a heartbreaking realization: &#8220;I realized what she lost when she died. I do not want to miss anything with my kids. They have hard times, they have good times. I want to be there for all of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/7c54ac52-4381-443f-b43d-cdf06ead6bbd\/thumbnail\/620x349\/b48fbf720e7fc5a5d7b303a61f4b30a4\/motherless-daughters-shaina.jpg#\" alt=\"motherless-daughters-shaina.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/7c54ac52-4381-443f-b43d-cdf06ead6bbd\/thumbnail\/620x349\/b48fbf720e7fc5a5d7b303a61f4b30a4\/motherless-daughters-shaina.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/7c54ac52-4381-443f-b43d-cdf06ead6bbd\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/f4f8b04eaf9ba9d287493a5f8745037c\/motherless-daughters-shaina.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Shaina lost her mother when she was 14 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Angela Schellenberg, a fellow motherless daughter, is a therapist and retreat co-facilitator. She says it is traumatic for a young person to lose their mother: &#8220;It&#8217;s an attachment trauma. It&#8217;s a break in attachment, and that&#8217;s traumatic, because your brain is constantly looking for your mother, and she&#8217;s not there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schellenberg says these gatherings are so healing because they cause an actual shift in our bodies: &#8220;There&#8217;s something called co-regulation, where our nervous systems feel each other. I know that sounds a little <em>woo<\/em>. It does! But there&#8217;s something just about sitting in community, and that settles the nervous system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What might surprise some is the age range at these retreats &#8212; women in their 20s all the way up to daughters in their 80s. One woman said, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t talk about my mom for at least 40 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marcia Nowak, who is 81, said, &#8220;It&#8217;s beautiful, to have me and you as elders, and the young that can share their life experiences and be able to talk about it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/6e3ced7c-60f7-4abf-a3de-5ffb5d6944c5\/thumbnail\/620x465\/f8a7db701635c2b65a77475ebc34837f\/motherless-daughters-1280.jpg#\" alt=\"motherless-daughters-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/6e3ced7c-60f7-4abf-a3de-5ffb5d6944c5\/thumbnail\/620x465\/f8a7db701635c2b65a77475ebc34837f\/motherless-daughters-1280.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/09\/6e3ced7c-60f7-4abf-a3de-5ffb5d6944c5\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/4576a90a691c9dd69c1d0d0b7ae50c59\/motherless-daughters-1280.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A Motherless Daughters retreat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shaina went 30 years without seeing other women with similar stories \u2013 little girls living a parallel world. She found that those grown girls who share her sorrow also embody the best of what their moms left behind: &#8220;Being able to see all of those moms together, and then I would look at their living daughters and what they&#8217;ve all accomplished and who they are, and I connected them, and it was powerful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hope Edelman reminds us that we can carry our mothers with the joy they would wish for us: &#8220;There will always be a tinge of sadness that pops up from time to time, because we wish our mom were there to witness our achievements, to help us through hard times,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But we can celebrate her life in addition to grieving her absence. Both of those things can be true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Aria Shavelson. 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