Surviving Life After Mute Happens

By Adrienne Griffin

Surviving Life After Mute Happens is a book that provides resourceful information for healing, setting you free, and true deliverance from trauma. Life has the ability to suffocate you if you allow it. You have the power to change everything in your life. Why not start today. Struggling with suicidal thoughts? Suffering from depression? Is past

• Language: English
• Publisher: Detox Rocks LLC
• Release date: Jun 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088093894

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SURVIVING LIFE AFTER MUTE HAPPENS

Adrienne Griffin,

M.Ed.

Copyright © 2023 by Adrienne Griffin of

D.E.T.O.X. Rocks, LLC

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United States of America

First Edition, 2023

HARDBACK ISBN: 978-1-0880-9397-9

PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-0880-9382-5

EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-0880-9389-4

Red Pen Edits and Consulting

www.redpeneditsllc.com

Edited by Charlita Bowman

Table of Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter One

Trapped Under A Mask

Chapter Two

The First Step Of A Thousand Miles

Chapter Three

Turn Off Mute And Sound The Freedom Alarm

Chapter Four

After The Rain Comes The Sun

Chapter Five

Twist Of Fate

Chapter Six

Living Happily Ever After

References

About The Author

~ Adrienne Griffin, M.Ed. ~

Dedication

I dedicate this book to those who became inaudible during life experiences. You were never alone. With gratitude, I appreciate you for staying around because life does get better.

Introduction

Everyone deserves a second chance at happiness. One of the worst things that can happen to anyone is to have a ruined childhood. The kind of trauma I suffered at childhood could automatically ruin one’s life if not handled properly.

Have you been wondering if there’s any chance at all for you to ever get out of that trap you have been living in? Perhaps your life has been plagued with many traumatic experiences or your childhood may have been ruined like mine. Have you ever been in a position where you felt so overwhelmed with grief, fear and sorrow that you muted yourself to the rest of the world? You may want to ask, Could it still be possible to survive life after mute happens? Well, think no further – I’ve got you covered.

Surviving Life After Mute Happens is my true-life story. It is a book that will guide you to overcome life challenges, even the ones that seem to mute you. This book is a narrative of my life and how I was able to overcome the challenges that tormented me from childhood. It more or less serves as a guide to securing lasting happiness and overcoming any challenge life may throw at you.

The word Survival means a state or fact of continuing to live or exist, especially despite difficult conditions. It also means something from an early period that still exists or is done. So, when I say, surviving life, I guess you can comprehend what I mean.

The word Mute means not able or willing to speak. It also means that something has been felt and expressed without the use of words.

The next question you may ask is, What will I learn from this book? Just like the title implies, in this book, you are going to grasp how to survive life after being hit by an overwhelming problem.

First, I will start by showing you how happy I was with my life and the intriguing childhood experiences I had. It was like that of every other normal kid out there. Unfortunately, it didn’t last for too long before the storm came. My life became a shadow of what it was. Suddenly, my happiness turned to sadness. Shame, pain and hurt became my companion. I remember waking up on several nights and crying my eye’s out, hoping the ground would just open up and swallow me.

Life became hell on earth. The trauma and pain were too much to bear. I even contemplated suicide many times, but in one way or the other, I failed with my attempts to take my own life. At least, that was one failure I was very proud of. Sounds funny to say that I was happy to fail right? Yup! In this context, failure became a good thing because, thanks to my failure, you have something like this today to read and get inspired to overcome even your worst nightmares.

It didn’t just stop with me wetting my pillows with tears, I began drinking and trying all manner of things in an attempt to make my hurt and pain go away, but all that didn’t work. Immediately, I would regain consciousness from those things I had taken. The wound would refresh itself automatically and it became a vicious cycle of pain, anguish, sorrow, and hurt.

As a matter of fact, I hated myself. I was so ashamed of myself, that I didn’t even have the guts to say a word to anyone. But that was not even all there was to it. I also carried fear on my shoulders. I feared for my life even as I tried to take it. It was like being lost in the woods, not knowing where to turn or how to get out. It was like I had been thrown into a bottomless pit and left to die alone. Even my own shadow scared the hell out of me. It was as horrible as anything you could imagine – trust me.

The incident even made me lose faith in God at that time. I kept asking myself, Why would God let such a thing happen to me if He was really a good God? Of course, I was still a child, so I didn’t understand then that God is absolutely good and had no hand in the evil that befell me. As a matter of fact, I saw myself as a piece of trash.

Imagine how you would have felt if you were violated and taken advantage of by your own cousin, one who supposedly should have been protecting you from such harm. I mean, the people who should stick out their heads to ensure things like that didn’t happen to you, become the threat themselves. In my mind, I died many times. Come on!! I was too young and fragile to handle such tragic physical, emotional, and psychological trauma – it was more than I could bear.

Plus, after abusing me, he would ask me to never breathe a word about it to anyone. How worse could it have gotten? This experience boxed me up for a long time. I was trapped under a mask.

Thus, in this book, we will look at how I was able to crawl out of my misery and the steps I took to overcome my fears. The challenges I had would be another point of focus. You would then be able to learn how you can turn your life around and not remain in bondage. Truth be told, there is nothing like freedom. Victory is one thing that would not only secure your freedom but will also serve as an assurance of your ability to overcome other challenges of life.

If I did it, then you can do it too. The journey to victory over any challenge always looks impossible, given all the thorns and serpents lying around waiting to bring you down on your knees again. In my case, it looked like a thousand miles were in front of me. Guess what? I was able to take the first step, and as you can imagine, the rest became easier.

What would have become of me, if I hadn’t decided to pick what was left of my life, and start repairing it? Perhaps my children may not have been born, I probably would not have gotten married, and who knows, I may have eventually succeeded in taking my own life. You probably wouldn’t be reading this today.

No matter the magnitude of the mess you are currently or may be going through, be assured that you can make it if you try. I remember a story I read some time ago. In the land of animals, the King and his Executive had organized a competition for all animals in the Kingdom. It was a yearly competition with lots of prizes attached to it. But for that year, in particular, the prize to be won wasn’t just anything – it was the Princess herself.

Princess Lucia was the only surviving child of the King; therefore, anyone that married her, would automatically succeed the King. At this, she was of age and had to get married. However, the custom has it that anyone who subscribes to this contest must be very brave. The ones who failed would then be turned into slaves to serve the winner alongside his Queen at the palace for the rest of their lives.

Well, as much as this offer was very enticing, it was also very dangerous. Although every young man in the village wanted to be the next King, they also didn’t want to end up as slaves forever.