Nearly two years after the death of Aalyiah Gonzalez during the Brooklyn Day mass shooting, her mother, Krystal Gonzalez, is channeling her grief into a mission to help others.

“I remember her saying, ‘Mom, you should have a show,’ ” Krystal Gonzalez said, recalling frequent conversations with her daughter before her untimely death. “I still to this day, I hear those words repeating in my head, ‘Mom, you should have a show.’ ”

In the wake of Aalyiah’s death, Krystal began teaching grief classes on social media. Instead of creating a show, she wrote “The Survivor Power Playbook.”

“I’m giving people a play-by-play, right, so that they can take these actionable steps to see transformation. They don’t have to wait a whole year,” she said.

Krystal said the book is about making choices. “I don’t believe that just because you lose someone, yes you grieve, but I don’t believe that you should suffer for the rest of your life. That is a determining factor, right? You are now choosing what you allow to come in your life.”

She emphasized the importance of moving forward after grief. “How can you take this terrible, terrible thing and use it as a way that’s going to contribute to society, that’s going to contribute to the legacy of your child,” she said.

However, readers won’t find details about the investigation and court proceedings related to the mass shooting in the book. “Finding out who did what, that doesn’t serve me. None of that brings Aalyiah back,” Krystal said. “I couldn’t control these young boys going out there, shooting and killing each other.”

Despite the arrest of four teenagers, the youngest being just 14 years old at the time, no one has been charged in Aalyiah’s murder. “I can’t control the justice system. I can’t control what happened in court. I wasn’t there. I wasn’t a part of it,” she said.

Krystal is focusing on what she can control: the message she hopes will help others. “I really want to take back the power that was stolen from me when Aalyiah was shot. And so, embodying being a survivor. My whole focus of taking care of survivors, so I just said you know what survivor power, Survivor Power, that’s exactly what the title of the book’s gonna be,” she said.

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