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INTERVIEWED BY: THE MORNING BLEND

NBC Broadcast on June 1, 2021

“DYING TO LIVE, A MEMOIR”

CHOOSING TO THRIVE AFTER TRAUMA AND ABUSE

 ~DR. KIMBERLY LEES

 

The Morning Blend Interview – Five Stages For Stepping Into A Life of Glow

 

AMAZON RELEASE DATES

EBOOK: JUNE 29TH 2021

IN PRINT: JULY 6, 2021

 

LEES, K. (2021). Dying to Live, A Memoir: Choosing to Thrive After Trauma and Abuse. Open Door Publications, Willow Springs, NC.

DESCRIPTION

The book connects the reader’s heart and soul into the world of a young girl born into the throws of tragedy, but she miraculously survives. The threads woven throughout the chapters share intimate details of her life’s challenges of domestic violence, the shame from rape, and two traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) suffered as an outcome of severe car accidents. In a maze of grace, she discovers how bondage, pain and suffering helped shape and refine her mindset in battling her greatest achievement in life…freedom to aspire to the woman she was meant to be.

While walking into the fire of darkness, she was lost and alone in a mind of her own. She realized the only person who could save her from a broken, shattered soul was herself. The God spark within her, was a flicker in the night, so she dug down deep to let her light shine bright.

The resiliency of the human spirit became her crown of jewels that lit a path so sacred for her self-love to shimmer through. How she walked through the fire was just as important as how she walked out of it. A more brilliant, courageous, wise, and forgiving soul with feathers in her hair, stardust on her face, and the cosmos as her cape. Her super power was God’s light force from within and her voice would never be silenced ever again.

She blazes a trail as an advocate of light for those who walk in her shadows to bring healing and recovery, courage, and choices for positivity and light for living a life of glow. Redemption and transformation take perseverance, commitment, and hard work, but the rewards of walking in the light far surpass anything she leaves behind.

Choosing to live in the magic zone is choosing a life of possibilities where you become whatever your imagination envisions for you. Whatever you believe you want in life are wishes fulfilled. It is where the extraordinary becomes possible. You are pure magic and can make dreams come true…if only you believe in you.

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TBI BOOKS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

• • Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice, Nathan D. Zasler, MD, Editor, Douglas I Katz, MD, Editor, Ross D. Zafonte, DO, Editor, 2007, Demos Medical Publishing.

  • Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Therapy and Resource Manual Green, B,  Singular Publishing, 1997

  • Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury Jonathan M. Silver (Editor), Stuart C. Yudofsky (Editor), Thomas W. McAllister (Editor), 2004 American Psychiatric Press

  • Bryant, B. (1992). In Search of Wings: A Journey Back From Traumatic Brain Injury. Wings Press, San Antonio, TX.

  • Denton, G. L. (2012). Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery From Mild Brain Injury. Second Edition. Demos Medical Publishing, New York, NY.

  • Elvington, L.S. (2015). When God Doesn’t Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can’t Live Without. HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc. Nashville, TN.

  • Fahl, J. L. (2009). TBI: Shaken But Not Stirred. One Women’s Successful Struggle for Credibility and Justice while Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury. iUniverse, Bloomington, IN.

  • Horn, L.J. & Zasler, N. (1996). Medical Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injury. Hanley & Belfus, Inc: Philadelphia, PA.

  • Kay, T. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Injury Association of America.

  • Long, PJ (2006) Brain on a String: And Other Ways to Stay Organized When Your Mind Isn’t. Equal Librium Press, 1^st Edition, Culver City, CA.

  • Long, PJ (2005). Gifts From A Broken Jar. Rediscovering Hope, Beauty, and Joy. Equal Librium Press, Inc., Culver City, CA.

  • Osborn, C. (1998). Over My Head. A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury From the Inside Looking Out. Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, MO.

  • Stoler, D. R., & Hill, B. A. (1998). Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Penguin Group, Inc., New York, NY.

  • Sullivan, C. (2008). Brain Injury Survival Kit. Demos Medical Publishing, New York, NY.

  • Swanson, K. (2003). I’ll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury. Rising Star Press, Scotts Valley, CA.

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TRAUMA AND ABUSE ARTICLES

• Psychopath Free: Recovering From Emotionally Abusive Relationships with Narcissists, Sociopaths and Other Toxic People

• Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

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AWAKE OUR HEARTS

FOR THE FEMALE VOICE EXPLORING FAITH AND LIFE IN FULL

Awake Our Hearts is an online literary publication celebrating the gift of creativity, faith, God’s goodness and beauty, and the voice of women.

We exist to arouse our hearts to the dawn of faith, beauty, and the examination of life in new perspectives and curiosity. To awake, or reawaken, our hearts, our faith, our creativity, and our lives.

Much of this life goes unnoticed in the blur of rigorous pace and structure. But life is beautiful and glorious and mundane and messy. We want to help you slow down, savor small and significant moments, and allow your heart room to breathe, to break out of a humdrum rhythm and find its true beat again. We are dreamers inhabiting reality. We exist to wake you up through the power of words to live your life to the full in God, get excited for what He has in store for you, and to celebrate and examine His goodness and beauty in the real and hard things of life, too. You may submit your writings here.

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