The Places My Heart Refused To Leave is my raw and deeply personal story of grief, love, family, loss, and becoming.
After losing my mom at twenty-two, I had to learn how to live with a grief that never truly goes away while navigating family, heartbreak, motherhood through love, and the people who became my home.
Through writing, reflection, and everything life has asked me to survive, I learned to love myself, choose myself, and turn my pain into something meaningful.
This is the story of the people, memories, dreams. and pieces of myself my heart refused to leave behind-and learning that grief can stay without stopping me from living.