If You Will Listen, We Can Talk About Anything (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798894853796)

They say that your life, your struggle, your story will someday be someone else's survival guide. It's true! And here it is. There were days I could not eat, I could not sleep. It was all I could do to keep breathing. But I could pray, and I had a pen. Somehow, by writing and sorting my thoughts, I found the clarity to keep going. Somehow I felt that my story might help someone else. While I was in the middle of it, I only caught tiny glimpses of how much the writing actually helped me. I can tell you now, this book saved my life! It wasn't just the writing, but editing and rereading my own story to see the lessons. I could see myself learning empathy. I could see how the fear had settled down because of gratitude and forgiveness. In the end, I could see how I wanted to survive to give this gift to anyone else who may be struggling alone in the dark. This is a book about how I wrote the book that saved my life.

I hope this book can give people the courage to see things a little differently, to talk about things they've been afraid to say, to listen with an open mind and possibly view things from another person's perspective. And most of all, I hope it gives us an opportunity to change. We could do so much good if only we were willing to. I hope this book starts conversations where people can talk and listen and promote positive changes. This book argues with itself a few times, because I propose the idea that you can change your mind, and that's okay. This book is about talking and listening and loving and seeking truth and change.