HOME WAS NEVER A PLACE

Home Was Never a Place is a deeply personal memoir about loss, survival, and the quiet courage it takes to choose your life again and again. From a devastating first encounter with grief to years shaped by love, caregiving, trauma, and motherhood, RMY Haywood traces the moments that fractured and ultimately rebuilt her understanding of belonging. Through raw honesty and vivid memory, she explores what it means to survive the unimaginable while still learning how to live fully. Set between ordinary spaces and extraordinary turning points — a crowded food court, hospital rooms, Sunday markets, and the shores of Hawaii — this is a story about resilience, creativity, and the enduring search for home. Tender, unflinching, and deeply human, Home Was Never a Place reminds us that healing does not mean forgetting the past, but choosing, day by day, to build something new from it.