14/11/2025
A mum…
The word hits differently once I became one myself.
It’s like suddenly I understood something that had been in front of me my whole life.
To me, a mum is the person who gives you your very first sense of safety - that warm, quiet feeling that everything will be okay, simply because she’s there.
It’s the first love you ever feel, long before you even know what love is.
It’s the touch that tells you: you belong, you matter, you are deeply, deeply loved.
A mum doesn’t get it right all the time. I know that now.
She just tries.
She shows up.
She loves you the best way she knows how.
She’s there when you’re scared, when you’re growing, when you’re discovering the world, when you fall apart and when you find your feet again.
Her love is something you carry in your bones.
And when I was carrying my own babies, that’s when I truly felt it… how much a mother holds.
How much she feels, how much she protects, how much she worries, how much she hopes.
How huge her heart has to be.🤍
For me, “mum” is not a title.
It’s a feeling.
It’s home.
It’s the place your heart recognises even when you’re continents away.
And I hope so deeply that one day my children will feel this kind of love from me too.
That they’ll look back and think, she was my safe place… she was my home.
