Ruthie Lindsey returns to the CMNSH after ten years to tell us about the power of telling ourselves new stories to help us process, heal, and rise.
Nashville CreativeMorningsâs first ever speaker, Ruthie Lindsey, returns for a full circle moment 10 years later to start our 2024 season of events. Her previous speaking engagements were all about the story of her younger self, a good girl tying her worth to what others think of us and a deep need of belonging. This combined with a traumatic accident often lead her to detach from the harder parts of life. But nothing has ever been healed through shame, and by allowing ourselves to process, to remember that healing is not âfixing,â we can start telling ourselves new stories. These new stories allow space for all of our parts at the table, good and bad, and meeting these parts with radical compassion will allow us to rise. Itâs easy to think when you fall youâre a failure, but what if youâre just human? Letâs acknowledge all of our human parts with love as we move forward to healed, forever growing versions of ourselves.
About the speaker
Ruthie Lindsey is the author of the memoir There I Am, The Journey From Hopelessness To Healing, A Nashville-based speaker, coach, and midwife of souls. She helps people become endeared to their own life, soul and body.
Ruthie shares a remarkable story of surviving an accident as a teenager where she had a five percent chance to live and a one percent chance to walk, and the surgery that simultaneously saved and destroyed her body. As a young woman, chronic pain slowly pulled Ruthie away from everything she once held dear: her marriage, her faith, her family, her body, her very self. But her message is one of strength and resilience, the faith she lost and rebuilt in herself, and the power of telling a new story through radical self love and compassion. Ruthie mirrors to audiences how good our bodies are and the liberation and healing that is inside of all of us- that every single part of us belongs here, especially the parts we have been taught are âbadâ
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