If You Will Listen We Can Talk About Anything

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p>