Lilly’s Heart is named after my mother, Lilly McNeil. I named it Lilly’s Heart because like the heart, my mom pumps oxygen (life) into everyone she meets. She makes sure everyone has what they need when she is around. Her laughter, her smile and her humor give others life. She is always ready to serve than the be serve, I admire that about her. — But also like the heart, bad habits and bad choices can cause a heart blockage. That parental blockage in my mom’s heart resulted into the lack of responsibility when it came to parenting my brother and I, which resulted into us living with our grandmother.  My mother at that time had distractions that withheld her from becoming the mother we needed growing up, and my father was not there. Rather that had to do with their own childhood trauma or the lack of parental tools, I just pray Lilly’s Heart will give parents a renewed mindset to become the best version their children need from them. So, I decide to tell my story through this nonprofit. My goal with Lilly’s Heart is to take my own experience, that could have been worse and turn it around to help other parents with being transparent, honest about their own childhood traumas, creating effective communication with their children and building a strong relationship with them, even their adult children, in hopes to break generational curses. It’s ok to ask for help, it takes a village.  It’s never too late to change. If you from a two-parent home, single home or blended families, it’s all about the matters of the heart.