Ep. 86 You Are Worthy of Healing with Ruthie Lindsey

Recovering From Reality

Dear Media, Alexis Haines

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode I am joined by Ruthie Lindsey.

At seventeen years old, Ruthie was hit by an ambulance outside of a gas station in rural Louisiana. She broke her neck, punctured her lungs, and ruptured her spleen. Doctors performed a spinal cord fusion using wire and miraculously, she walked out of the hospital within a month.

Only a few years later, newly married and settling into adulthood, a simple turn of her head left her body riddled with chronic pain. Her case confounded medical professionals and in the months that followed, she became addicted to narcotic painkillers, depressed, and bedridden. After dozens of visits to specialists and surgeons, a doctor discovered that the wire holding her neck together was piercing her brain stem. Without another surgery, she would be paralyzed.

As she prepared for the procedure, her father passed away suddenly, her marriage began to collapse, and she surrendered her spirit to dependency and suffering. The surgery repaired her spine but she still felt broken, inside and out, until she chose to change her narrative.

Ruthie went home to the same town where she almost lost her life. She decided to learn joy again, to retrain her spirit to soothe her physical pain, to salvage strength from her suffering. She traded fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for picking wildflowers on the side of the road. Ruthie stopped using her body as a hiding place and started using it as her bridge to connect with the world.

Now a speaker, author, podcast host, and social media figure, Ruthie travels the globe sharing her story, empowering others to find purpose in their pain and to look for beauty in the midst of their brokenness. Her new memoir, There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing is available now.

In this episode, we dive into topics like:

- Near-death experiences

- How physical pain turns into emotional pain

- Addiction to prescribed medication

- Divorce

- The tragic loss of her father

- The brain's way of coping with trauma

- Owning our recovery journeys

- The importance of joy

- How we always have been and always will be perfect, whole and worthy

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.5	Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,
0:11.6	where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.
0:16.1	Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the
0:20.5	capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,
0:26.2	we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.0	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.9	But I now can look back at all of it, like all of the pain, all the trauma, all of the loss,
0:46.6	all were ultimately the entry points, the invitations for me to actually come home to myself
0:53.5	and to do the healing work that I'm so deserving of, that we are all so deserving of.
0:58.4	And for so long, I looked outside of me like, Dr. Fix Me, Nate Me Better, Husse, and Fix Me,
1:03.2	Nate Me Better, Daddy Fix Me, Nate Me Better, you know, medicine, Fix Me, Nate Me Better,
1:07.6	and nothing outside of us can ever quote unquote cure us and fix us. Thank God, because if it did,
1:13.6	I would never have done this work. I would have never come home to myself and done the deep dive and
1:18.8	woken up and woken up to consciousness and woken up to the connectivity of everything and woken up to
1:25.3	the mind body connection and realizing that this healing was all is always for me, that we were
1:31.6	created to heal, that our bodies, our hearts, our spirits, our emotions, like we are, our bodies are so wide.
1:40.9	That was a quick clip from this week's episode with the ever so lovely Ruthie Lindsay.
1:49.3	Y'all, when I first heard Ruthie's story, it shattered me into a million pieces and then somehow
1:58.0	beautifully put me back together. Her story is so inspiring, it's filled with so many highs and lows,
2:09.8	but this undercurrent of beautiful resilience, resilience that comes from surrendering,
2:19.5	resilience that comes from trusting her inner guides, resilience that comes from her life experience.
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