Your untold story may be silencing your voice, making you sick, and distancing you from those you love most in your life. But when you are able to share your story from a place of vulnerability, a safe community, and a realization that we are all part of a bigger story, you are free to take powerful steps into your future.

Contributing author of best-selling Deserts to Mountaintops: Our Collective Journey to (re)Claiming Our Voice, Sue Muraida, woke up one day in her early thirties, realizing she had left the best parts of herself behind. Sibling dysfunction with her brother and sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle framed her growing-up years, and that frame became a cage in her adult life. She grew tired of holding her breath, making herself small, and avoiding connection with others. So she embarked on a healing journey of a hundred thousand steps, a rebirth coming in fits and spurts, small steps and choices towards integrating all parts of herself.

As you turn the pages of Sue's story of rescue, reclamation, and release from shame, you may see your own hiding spots and masks you've worn to keep the peace. But you will also find the inspiration and encouragement to break free from what's fake and tell your true story. And by doing so, you just may save someone else's life along with your own.