{"product_id":"there-i-am-the-journey-from-hopelessness-to-healing-paperback","title":"There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuthie Lindsey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrain on Fire \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eCarry On, Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e in this inspirational memoir and \"testament to the things that break us, heal us, and make us who we are\" (Glennon Doyle, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author) that explores one woman's journey from chronic pain and hopelessness to finding joy, redemption, and healing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She's given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing, imaging, and treatment, they prescribe narcotic painkillers--lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden, dependent on painkillers, and hopeless, when an X-ray reveals that the wire used to fuse her spine is piercing her brain stem. Without another staggeringly expensive experimental surgery, she could well become paralyzed, but in many ways, she already is. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuthie goes into the hospital in chronic pain, dependent on prescription painkillers, and leaves the same way. She can still walk but has no idea where she's going. As her life unravels, Ruthie returns home to Louisiana and sets out on a journey to learn joy again. She trades fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for wildflowers, weaning herself off of the drugs and beginning the process of healing--of coming home to her body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaw and redemptive, \u003ci\u003eThere I Am \u003c\/i\u003eis not just about the magic of optimism, but the work of it. Ruthie's extraordinary memoir \"like going on a walk with a best friend and listening to a life-changing speech at the same time: it's equal parts familiar and profound, warm and insightful, comforting and challenging, relatable and unlike anything you've read before\" (Mari Andrew, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuthie Lindsey is a speaker, cohost of the \u003ci\u003eUnspoken \u003c\/i\u003epodcast, and prominent social media figure who challenges audiences to seek joy and find the healing that is inside all of us. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. \u003ci\u003eThere I Am\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201621209336,"sku":"9781982107925","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/T01rdTh2b1F1VUluSXpMZ05YQStUUT09.webp?v=1775533638","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/there-i-am-the-journey-from-hopelessness-to-healing-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}