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    Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender
    Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender
    Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender
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    Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender

    By Lindsay Gibson

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    “Love is the reason we grieve and love is what will bring you back.” - Just Be
    Heartbreak from the loss of a loved one or from loss of innocence traumatizes the soul, but what if the loss of your baby who was born still could lead you to forgive someone who brutally harmed you and nearly left you for dead?
    Lindsay was a normal, happy teenager, but at the tender age of 16, she found herself terrorized and in the hands of a rapist whose brutal force robbed her innocence that left her in unbearable pain, darkness and silence. For the next thirteen years, she suffered silently, never telling anyone except her husband Jason what had happened. The ugly aftermath of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder left her with debilitating anxiety and nightmares that shadowed her college years, her relationship with her beloved Jason and even their first-born baby didn’t bring her true relief or joy.
    Until one cold November morning in her doctor’s office, six months pregnant with their second baby, her life would change forever. The fetal monitor became silent…a silence that matched her own silence. Searing pain ripped her heart wide opened and ignited mysterious dreams, divine messages and a strange new awakening began to emerge. 
    Laboring with a baby that had died in her womb was met with overwhelming grief …a grief that beckoned her to make a choice…to choose life, and surrender her silence and suffering. Only then could the light of hope – filter into the broken shards of her heart and let love begin to mend the pieces back together. She finally knew what the dreams and messages were telling her and what unconditional love was asking her to do… to forgive the man who took her life so that she could take it back again.
    With raw emotion, humor, and courage, Lindsay tells her story of thirteen years of darkness and the power of forgiveness that finally set her free. 
    Get your copy now and learn how Lindsay learned to forgive and Just Be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKat Biggie Press
    Release dateMar 18, 2018
    ISBN9781948604253
    Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender
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    Lindsay Gibson

    "Lindsay’s first book, her memoir, Just Be: How my Stillborn Son Taught Me to Surrender, won the Book Excellence finalist award in 2018. She has been featured in Elephant Journal, Green Child Magazine, and Self Magazine. Her debut romantic fiction novel, set in a charming New England town at the holidays is set to release in 2023 with Harpeth Road Press. Lindsay writes emotional romantic fiction, full of heartfelt love, good friends, and family, sprinkled with humor and tender warmth, where her characters discover that love is the reason for everything. When she’s not writing, she spends her days chatting on her Love is the Reason podcast about all things love, food and healthy living, chasing her three daughters around their hometown in Connecticut, and hanging out with her Irish husband whose brogue still makes her blush."

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