Dead Moms Club: Navigating Life After Loss, from One Strong Girl to Another

A club that no one should have to join.

Being a teenager is hard enough as it is, but add your mom dying from cancer three months before your thirteenth birthday, and you've got a real problem. When you should be focused on crushes, grades, sports, and enjoying the last few years of childhood, your head is full of all the what-ifs and what-nows that come after losing a parent and your life turning upside down.

At the time, Samantha Mathews didn't think anyone could relate to what she was goin...