Hi, I’m Ruthie!

I am writer, speaker, and midwife of souls, helping people feel endeared to their own life, body and spirit. I believe love is always inviting us back home to ourselves, to our bodies, and to healing.

I am so glad you are here.

About Ruthie

Ruthie Lindsey is the author of the memoir There I Am, The Journey From Hopelessness To Healing, A Nashville-based speaker and coach. 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 died, 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, and 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”.

My Story

At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey 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, from Touchstone/Simon and Schuster debuted April 21, 2020.