Short films cut to the author's own words, in her own order. Every one of them is captioned and every one has a transcript.
The Way Home
The dedication of Save the World, read aloud.
Transcript
for my children. Everything I do, I do for you. For my mother, my brother, and my pop who helped make me who I am. And for Remy, my best friend, my sister, now in heaven. I carry you in every page. Into a brighter future where our children learn from our mistakes. Be the change. Change the world. For every child who sat alone in a dark room and needed someone to say, you are loved. You are enough. You will get through this. For every adult who wishes someone had said it sooner. For every parent who stayed up all night wondering if their child was safe. For everyone I once loved who could not love me back the way I deserved. I could not see it then because I was still asleep to my true purpose in life. God's plan. For the seasons I gave my heart to what could not hold it. And for the growth that came after. And for what matters most, our children. I don't care if they are 40 years old. Every one of us can be led away from ourselves and every one of us can find the way home. It is the God moment when God speaks to you and you leave that moment and all that matters. You were not placed on this earth by accident. You were placed here with purpose, with a name already known, with a light inside you that no darkness can extinguish. This book is for you.
What This Book Will Give You
What the book promises a teenager, and what it promises the adult reading alongside.
Transcript
If you are a teenager, this book will give you language for what you are feeling. Many of the emotions you carry do not have words yet. Not because the words do not exist, but because no one ever taught them to you. This book will. You will learn to name what lives inside you and naming it is the first step to taming it. Proof that you are not alone. The characters in these pages have been where you are. Some have been through worse, and every single one of them found a way forward. Tools you can use today. Grounding techniques, breathing exercises, safety plans, scripts for asking for help, journaling prompts, and affirmations. Not someday tools. Right now tools. Permission to heal at your own pace. There is no deadline on recovery. There is no grade on grief. This book will meet you exactly where you are and walk beside you. If you are a parent, teacher, or mentor, this book will give you Conversation starters that actually work. Warning signs you may have missed. Guidance on what to say. And what never to say. A model for a healing program you can adapt for your community. And for everyone, this book will give you hope. Not the vague greeting card kind. The real kind. The kind that is forged in fire and proven by the people who walked through it and came out alive. The world full of true love is the world fixed. And fixing it starts with you.
Take Care of You
Where she has been, in her own words — the opening of the first book.
Transcript
This is a place to name where you have been, so you can see how far you are going. Fill in your own. Hi, my name is… I live at… My background is… Married or divorced. Dating and looking for love. And I carry depression, anxiety, and everything that comes with it. I have been with… My friends are… I failed at… I was in love with… I struggled with… I need… I want… I bought… You were in love with me… You broke my heart… You text… You took my… I didn't finish that… I quit… I lost… I went through… I lost… I lost… I lost…
A Blessing
The last page of Save the World.
Transcript
May you know in the deepest part of yourself that you were made on purpose. May the pain you have carried begin to lift, not all at once, but steadily, like fog burning off in morning light. May you find the words to ask for help, and may the right people hear them. May your hands stop shaking. May your voice grow strong. May you look in the mirror one morning and see, finally, what God has always seen. Someone worth saving. Someone worth fighting for. Someone worth loving. Not for what they do, but for who they are. May healing find you where you are, and walk beside you to where you are going. And may the light inside you, the one that no darkness has ever been able to extinguish, burn brighter with every passing day, until the whole world can see it. Amen.