Somebody's Mother Page #2

Synopsis: Two sisters struggle with what it means to be a mother. One after the sudden loss of her baby, the other with her own inability to care for her young child. Together they find hope in the face of tragedy.
Year:
2016
83 min
50 Views


Go, do that, after your shower today,

go look it up on TedTalks, okay?

- Come on, let's go find Anna.

- There are so many

things to be afraid of.

What? Yeah, I'll go find

her, she's my sister.

- I'm sorry.

- Anna!

Anna.

- No, wait.

Please.

- Her name is Bella.

I always wanted a little

girl, a little Bella.

- I love the name Bella.

Hi, Bella.

- Clare.

It's time to go.

- Yeah, it'd probably be best.

- Come on.

Clare.

- This must be very hard for you,

but you should go, okay?

- Come on, Clare.

- We're gonna take Bella with us.

This isn't really happening to me.

This is a bad dream.

A nightmare.

- I'm so glad that both of

you were able to come in.

I think we'll get a lot of

work resolved in this session.

Anna, with hypnotherapy,

I can't make you do

anything you don't wanna do.

What we're trying to do is

we're trying to relax the brain

from the alpha, to the beta,

down to the delta waves

to access your subconscious

so that we can really

get to a deep, deep, level of peace.

What I'm gonna do is I'm

gonna count you down.

We're gonna count down from one to ten,

and I'm gonna ask you to please

close your eyes right now.

And I'd like you to

take a nice deep breath.

I'm gonna count you from one to ten.

By the time we get to ten,

you should be in a nice relaxed state.

One.

Two.

Take in a nice deep breath.

Let it fill all the way down to your toes.

Three.

Four.

Take a nice deep breath that

fills your entire abdomen.

Five.

Six.

Seven.

You're fully supported.

Your bodies and minds are safe.

By remembering it, we

can release any trauma

from our past and heal.

Ten.

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Again, one last deep breath

all the way to your toes.

Two.

And one.

Clare, how are you doing?

- I think I feel better.

- Good.

Anna, what came forward for you?

How are you doing?

- I don't think that worked at all.

- Well, well, well, if

it isn't Lopsy and Mopsy.

- Dad.

- Hey, Dad, no ones told us that

since we were about 8.

- I have to go to the bathroom.

- You two were always

a handful to deal with.

Haven't changed a bit.

Always needed a good clop.

- Mom.

I miss you.

- Amen.

- Amen.

Mom.

- What's going on?

You trying to burn the house down?

- No, Dad.

- I'll blow them out.

Still lying to me like you

always use to, but I understand.

You don't want dear ol' Dad

to know what's going on there?

- Come on Clare, I've got

his prescription, let's go!

- Bye Dad.

I went to the doctor's office,

and he basically put me right on bedrest.

And he said that I have

to go into the hospital,

and then I went into the hospital,

and I was there for three weeks.

They still kept telling me it was okay,

and they kept saying,

"You're okay, you're okay,

"you're okay, and the baby's okay."

And then, one morning we just woke up,

and his heart rate was going really fast.

And now I just keep thinking

there's something wrong with me

and I just go to doctor's all the time

because I've got all these weird symptoms,

like a lot of like physical pain,

and they keep telling me that I'm fine.

So, I don't really know who to trust now.

- Thank you

for calling CHA Hospital.

To hear our main menu

in English, press one.

Para espaol, oprima El numero dos.

If this is an emergency,

please hang up and dial again.

- CHA Hospital,

how may I direct your call?

- Could I please

have Jasper Coleman's room?

- I'm sorry, but

unless you know the room number

I can't put you through.

- I just spoke to

someone, I'm his mother.

Can you put me through?

- I'm sorry, ma'am.

We've been asked to block all

incoming calls to this room.

- But please, I'm his mother!

- We all come to this life to heal.

Not just this life,

but all of our other lives as well.

Some souls, they only

come for a short time.

Before you came to this life,

you and he made an

agreement, a soul agreement.

Your lessons together in

this life, they're done.

Oh everybody's hearts breaking now

And you feel the world is ending somehow

And you wonder how

we'll find our way out

Oh everybody's heart breaking now

Oh everybody's hearts breaking now

When the oceans and

the rivers turn brown

- No condom, okay.

- What?

- I said no condom.

- Are you crazy?

Breaking now

Breaking now

What the f***?

What the hell's wrong with you?

And you walk through the fair

And you walk to the sign

But you don't know what's bad

And you hold onto too tight

- Your lessons

together in this life are done.

- Please make this stop.

I'll do anything, I promise.

- The other day I was with Jasper...

- I don't wanna hear about Jasper.

- God dammit.

F***.

Wow, that smells good.

- I'm glad I

could cook for you guys.

- You're not using any dairy, right?

Michael, I thought we said no wine.

We agreed, we don't

wanna f*** up the baby.

- We don't have to drink, it's okay.

- What baby?

- We don't have to

drink if you don't want to.

- I want wine, okay.

Anna?

- This looks disgusting.

- Clare!

- That's why we're here,

that's why we keep coming, you know,

to try and deal with the grief together.

Trying to move past the shock of this,

and the anger, and the denial.

Right, the bargaining.

All these stages that we're going through,

we can go through them

together to get to acceptance,

to have some hope to move on.

That upward turn that we talked about.

I'm glad we're here.

Let's hear from Joe.

How are you?

- I asked him for a divorce this week.

He said I was being silly.

That we just needed to stop

the whole baby making thing,

and go on vacation.

Hawaii.

And I just told him, "No,"

that this is something

that I have to deal with.

And I think I have to go this alone.

- You're gonna love what's

in my goody box.

- What is it?

My pot candies.

I got a pot lollipop that was too strong,

so I cut them up into

little candies.

Takes he edge off wherever I go.

When I'm not at the bank.

With Clare.

It helps to take the edge off.

It all floats.

You'll see.

- Hmm, this is good.

So, is she always like this?

- Yeah, you know.

She's Clare.

Always a little high strung.

I love this movie.

- I didn't really enjoy it anymore.

It felt like this chore, this

drudgery I had to get through

to make it to the next day.

And then the next day was the same thing.

Go to the park, bedtime, dinner time.

The same thing everyday,

and I should've...

Realized he was this incredible

gift that I'm being given,

but I didn't.

- Hey.

- Hi, did I wake you?

I miss you.

I miss us.

- I'm just tired, Clare.

I miss the old Clare.

I miss the old us.

Something's gotta change.

Something's gotta change.

I do love you.

- Oh sh*t.

- Anna, it's Jacob.

- Hey, I was gonna call.

- I've been trying to

reach you for three days.

I need to talk to you now!

- Jacob, not now.

- What? Are you kidding me?

Now is the time!

- Jacob, please not now,

I promise you I'm gonna

talk to you tomorrow.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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