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 “bad.”