The Motherless Mothers

Ep65: Welcome to Season 3

We're back! In this first episode of Season 3, it's just the two of us, Lou and Adina, taking a moment to catch up after the summer and share where we're at. We talk abo

Ep61: Founders Unfiltered, Adina & Lou in Conversation

We’ve told our stories before, but this feels like a different conversation. More about where we are now, what’s changed with our grief, what’s still the same and how bei

Ep60: Clare on Breaking Patterns: Why I Chose No Contact

Clare has experienced a form of grief and loss that started in childhood. She felt unsupported growing up, which developed into her feelings towards her mum being invalid

Ep59: Choosing Distance: Mother Loss Through Estrangement, Geraldine’s Story

Geraldine’s experience of mother loss didn’t come through death, but through the painful decision to walk away. After years of being her mother’s carer from the age of 1

Ep56: Finding Peace: Lou’s Journey of Estrangement

 Lou is a woman in business - she owns her own business, she’s a creative director and has been shaping businesses from the ground up since 2004. In recent years, she has

Ep46: Grief Without Closure with Ashton

*Trigger warning – this episode talks about suicide. Some losses leave us with stories. Others leave us with silence. In this episode, we're joined by Ashton about becom

Ep45: Health Anxiety as a Mother Without Her:Sophie’s Story

Health anxiety isn’t something you’re taught to deal with as a first-time mum. But after Sophie became a mum in 2023, three years after her mum died, she finds herself co

Ep44:An Island on Its Own: Megan’s Take on Motherhood When Your Mum is Gone

When Megan first got in touch, we genuinely got chills after reading her email. Honest, raw and had a way of describing motherhood we’d never heard before - “We can see o

Ep38: Who am I without my mother?

In this episode, Adina and Lou are joined by licensed marriage and family therapist and community member Steph Bayan. As a motherless mother herself, Steph speaks to the

Ep33: Get to Know TMM Founders Lou & Adina

Sit down and get to know the duo behind TMM, Lou and Adina. What are our worst habits? What gives us the ick? What makes us cry without fail? Join us for a relaxed chat a

Ep31: Team TMM Holiday Roundtable

In this special holiday episode, the whole TMM team — Adina, Lou, Anne, and Steph — come together to talk about what the festive season feels like when you’re grieving yo

Ep29: Coriann's Story: Healing After Losing a Mother to Suicide

What happens when you become a mother without your own mum and with the added weight of grief and mental health struggles? Our guest, Coriann (The Neurodivergent Mama), k

Ep24: Mother Loss Awareness Day: A Monumental Moment

Something monumental is happening, and we can’t wait to tell you about it. In this episode, Lou and Adina share the behind-the-scenes of the very first Mother Loss Awaren

Ep21: Mother-in-Laws: When You Don't Have a Mum

Navigating a relationship with your mother-in-law is tricky enough, but when you don’t have your own mother, it can feel even more complicated. In this episode, Lou and A

Ep19: How to Be the Parent You Wish You’d Had – with Harriet Shearsmith

What does it really take to break generational cycles and parent differently? In this episode, we sit down with Harriet Shearsmith, host of Unfollowing Mum and author of

Episode 17: First Season. First Year. A Heartfelt Wrap-Up with Founders Lou & Adina

It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year since we started this podcast—and even harder to believe we’ve built all of this without ever meeting in person! In this speci

Episode 12: Grief, Love, and Raising a Family Together: Lou and Her Husband Dan Open Up

In this conversation, co-founder Lou sits down with her husband Dan to reflect on being a husband to a motherless mother. Their story started as friends when they met o

Episode 11: Sarah's Story: Two Losses, One Beginning

On this episode of The Motherless Mother Podcast, Lou and Adina talk with Sarah about what it was like to lose both of her parents in the same year she became a mother. S

Episode 9: Mothering Through Estrangement: Laura’s Story

In this powerful episode, Lou and Adina sit down with Laura to explore a type of mother loss that often goes unnamed: estrangement. Laura became a mother in 2005 while st

Episode 4: Mother's Day Without a Mother

Mother’s Day can be a complicated and painful day for motherless mothers. In this episode, we explore the complex emotions that come with this day — the grief, the longin