Hello loves,
Mother's Day is Sunday (tomorrow, depending on your time zone), and it can be a day full of love and full of complication.

So if...

your relationship with your mother is or was toxic/abusive/challenging...
your mother has died... 
you never knew your mother...
you have tried or have been trying to become a mother...
you've never wanted to be a mother...
you hate your mother...
you're a mom and it's not the most amazing beautiful incandescent thing in the world for you...
you have lost children...
your relationship with your child(ren) is challenging...
you aren't a "typical" mother but you have a maternal relationship with someone(s) and thus aren't recognized on this day...
Or anything else that makes this day complicated...

Please know you are seen, you are loved, and your feelings are valid. 

For those of you who love and adore your moms and have good relationships, you are seen, you are loved, and your feelings are valid too!

The full range of feels, with all their messiness and nuance, are valid. 

Also, I wanted to share these words about mothering and Mother's Day by Rebecca Solnit:

"Mother is a verb as well as a noun, so I hope everyone can honor whatever mothers them and whatever capacity to mother they have, or the equivalent in whatever gender language works for them.

"May you locate the ten thousand mothers that brought you into being and keep you going, no matter who and where you are. 

"May you be the mother of uncounted possibilities and loves."

And, if you're something of a procrastinator and need a gift for the mother figure(s) in your life, I hiiiighly (and not at all biased-ly) recommend Fierce Cheerleading!

Fierce Cheerleading is where I will tell your mom-like-person how and why they're awesome. It's confidence-building, "an emotional massage," as one client put it, and "LIFE CHANGING," as another client put it.

And because I want this to be accessible, I'm offering a sliding scale: 

$75 and up gets you a session for the maternal figure in your life, and/or yourself. Want two? Love it! $135 and up gets you two. 

This offer ends at the end of Mama's Day, so you've got until 11:59pm PDT on Sunday, May 14th. 

I will be donating a portion of the proceeds to Planned Parenthood. 

HOW TO GET YOUR SESSION: Go to paypal.me/erykapeskin and put in the amount you want to pay, include a note if it's for someone else, and I'll email a gift certificate to you ASAP. Again $75 and up gets you a session, $135 and up gets you two sessions. You decide!

And of course, feel free to ask me any questions. Sending lots of hugs your way!

  xoxo