This is Personal

Welcome to the new home of Esse Law. It has been a long time coming to reintroduce you to who I am and what I stand for. This is, undoubtedly, very personal. What you are seeing and experiencing is my rebirth, a consequence of the natural order of things.

In November 2017, my mother got very sick. In August 2019, less than two years later, she passed away. I was with her during that whole time and blessed enough to be with her the last 24 hours of her stay on Earth. She was my anchor, a home for my heart to find comfort and protection, and a source of neverending entertainment. She had a sharp wit and could have you flat on the floor laughing in seconds; she took great pride in this gift.

I spent those nearly two years taking care of her and preparing myself for what I knew was to come. In an effort to honor the sacredness of life and death, I vowed to be present. I found meditation and sat with my mantra, 20 minutes a day, twice a day, everyday. With that practice, I was able to witness the powering down of the human body. When she left, she left with my hand holding hers, ushering her along to her next adventure.

When her hand could no longer be in mine, with the space that would forever be there, I had to trust that in time I would find my own next. When all was said and done, after the first fierce wave of grief pounded me, when I touched the bottom of the ocean and decided it was time to come up for air, I sat down at my desk and said, “What next?” How would I fill the space she left behind?

Enlisting the help of some very talented friends, who spent a year interviewing me and clients, listening to me talk about my mom, what she meant to me, what she taught me, how I actually saw myself, where I wanted to go, and how I wanted to pick up all my pieces and rebuild, I put together a roadmap of sorts to find a new landing place with a new anchor, stepping into the very powerful woman that she helped shape, that I truly am, unabashedly.

So here I am. I’m a Mom. A lawyer. An artist. A creator. I’ve given birth twice and Lord knows I got lucky with two sweet and nutty kids. If I look back, I feel like I’ve rebirthed myself over and over again. A daughter. A student. A musician. A wife. A mother. An entrepreneur. An activist. All of these parts make the whole. And here I am. Rebuilt and rebuilding. Smiling, after a long day of recreating myself all over again, 13 years later. Welcome to the new, the now, Esse (pronounced “S”) Law.