Amplify: My first lesson was strength, and I learned it from my mom

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In this issue of Amplify, content editor Shelby Blackley talks about the experience of losing her grandmother at a young age, and the strength her mother exuded - and continues to exude - despite that loss

I think a lot about my first memory. For most kids, I assume it’s something fun or interesting: a trip to Walt Disney World and meeting Mickey Mouse for the first time, being handed a baseball at a game with dad or a specific tune that you can still hum on command. For me, it was finding my grandmother, lifeless in her bed, and watching my mom do everything she could to resuscitate her.

That day is hard to think about sometimes. People say I knew death before I knew happiness. But what I remember most was my mom. May is especially hard on my mom – Nana’s birthday, Mother’s Day and the anniversary of Nana’s death all happen within two weeks. Throughout the month, I know she struggles with the happiness of having two healthy children of her own, while remembering the loss of her best friend so early in her mothering years.

 

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