Still Standing: A Survivor's Guide to Healing, Faith, and Finding Yourself
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Still Standing: A Survivor's Guide to Healing, Faith, and Finding Yourself
Sale price
$23.99
Regular price $28.99
What do you do when the first emotion you ever remember feeling is fear?
I am done being silent.
For fifty-nine years I have been carrying things most people never say out loud. Now I am saying them.
Still Standing is the true story of a little girl from South Georgia who grew up afraid, survived things no child should survive, and spent decades learning how to carry the weight of it — with faith, with poetry, and with a fierce determination to still be standing on the other side.
From childhood abuse and rape at fifteen, to panic attacks, PTSD, and the long road of forgiveness — Marie “Arthur” Abad holds nothing back. Woven throughout with her own handwritten poems spanning five decades, this memoir-style guide walks alongside every survivor, every caretaker, every person who has ever needed to hear that God was there in the darkest moments — building something they could not yet understand.
This is a book about survival. Faith. Forgiveness that sets you free. Loving your people fiercely while you have them. And learning that more good days than bad is a win.
You are not alone. You never were.
Still Standing includes a companion appendix of handwritten poems written by Marie across five decades — from notebook paper in 1980 to the present day. These poems are not polished. They are real. They are the private words of a girl and then a woman trying to make sense of her life on paper. They are included here because healing is rarely neat, and neither is poetry written in the dark.
Whether you are a survivor yourself, someone who loves a survivor, a caretaker worn down to nothing, or simply a person who has wondered if God was present in your hardest moments — this book was written for you.
Talk. Listen. Pray. Breathe.
I am done being silent.
For fifty-nine years I have been carrying things most people never say out loud. Now I am saying them.
Still Standing is the true story of a little girl from South Georgia who grew up afraid, survived things no child should survive, and spent decades learning how to carry the weight of it — with faith, with poetry, and with a fierce determination to still be standing on the other side.
From childhood abuse and rape at fifteen, to panic attacks, PTSD, and the long road of forgiveness — Marie “Arthur” Abad holds nothing back. Woven throughout with her own handwritten poems spanning five decades, this memoir-style guide walks alongside every survivor, every caretaker, every person who has ever needed to hear that God was there in the darkest moments — building something they could not yet understand.
This is a book about survival. Faith. Forgiveness that sets you free. Loving your people fiercely while you have them. And learning that more good days than bad is a win.
You are not alone. You never were.
Still Standing includes a companion appendix of handwritten poems written by Marie across five decades — from notebook paper in 1980 to the present day. These poems are not polished. They are real. They are the private words of a girl and then a woman trying to make sense of her life on paper. They are included here because healing is rarely neat, and neither is poetry written in the dark.
Whether you are a survivor yourself, someone who loves a survivor, a caretaker worn down to nothing, or simply a person who has wondered if God was present in your hardest moments — this book was written for you.
Talk. Listen. Pray. Breathe.