May is almost over! Last week was the 15th Anniversary of my Mama’s death and I shared on my personal Instagram that I feel like I was born into a different version of myself on May 25, 2007.

Now, every year, as my body retraces the myriad of memories connected to the month of May, I am overcome by a deep sense of awareness. I am aware that I can choose to allow myself to embrace the pain that leads to another layer of transformation OR ignore the pleas of my body and push through - stubborn and unaffected. 

Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters, writes, “When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.”