Writing My First Memoir...3 Year Anniversary

Three years ago, I poured my heart onto the pages of my first memoir—a book born from pain, but written to inspire healing, growth and transformation. As I reflect on this milestone, I’m reminded of the tears, struggles, and triumphs that shaped not only my journey but also the stories of the women who found solace in my words. Learning how to overcome this heartbreak is where it started.

From Brokenness to Breakthrough

When I first sat down to write, I didn’t know if my pain would translate into purpose. To be honest, I was angry and hurt at how the situation played out. With each word there was a tear that would escape leaving me wondering if I was making a mistake. To share the unfiltered, raw story of how I endured the heartbreak. If you only knew the trials that I endured to get to the other side of those pages you would appreciate the time it took to reinvent myself and reclaim my voice so that others would find permission to do the same.

Through heartbreak, loss, and uncertainty, I discovered that even in the darkest moments, there is beauty. There is redemption. And there is hope. Hence the name, "Pain Tried to Bury Me Alive, But God Revived Me." I remember feeling so lost and stuck in a rut with my current situation. I was living with my kids at my ex's house because that's where I had been living for the last several years. So having a breakup out of nowhere and trying to figure it out left me feeling like life was trying to knock me out.

I tried to hold it together through the taunts, the disrespectful lines and being dragged out the room because I was learning to set boundaries for myself. I had to endure a months of lies being told and my name being dragged through the mud all the while smiling in my children's faces. The truth is that they knew everything wasn't perfect and yet making them choose a side was never something I wanted my kids to ever have to do. But that's a story to tell in memoir #2.

I share this tid bit of my life so that you can get a feel for what it was like for me to write about the pain that I experienced and yet not having a trace of it being seen on the pages. Because every painful moment I had endured was being transformed into a beautiful reminder that God was with me. That He didn't leave me and that He guided me and filled me with joy. Although living in that house was like living in a war zone, God allowed the pressing of my oil to take place right there in the midst because He knew there was a time and a place that others would need the encouragement.

Did you peep the poetic flow throughout the pages?

Yea, that wasn't even me. That was the Holy Spirit who took over this project and made it into something new. Just like he did it with me, He can do it with you too.

Grab your copy today: Pain Tried To Bury Me Alive, But God Revived Me

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