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Lay Down Your Sword: Letting Go of the Fight That Saved You
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 29 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lay Down Your Sword is not a book about addiction.
It's not a book about trauma.
It's not even a book about survival.
It's a book about what comes after.
After the battle.
After the healing begins.
After everyone tells you how strong you are-but your body still braces for the next disaster.
In these deeply personal pages, Jindra Samuels shares the honest journey of learning to release the very survival instincts that once saved her life. Through raw stories of addiction, motherhood, recovery, faith, and redemption, she explores the quiet struggle of learning how to trust, rest, receive joy, and believe that love no longer has to be earned.
If you've ever felt exhausted from carrying the weight of your past...
If you've ever wondered why peace feels unfamiliar...
If you've ever believed you had to keep fighting long after the battle was over...
This book is for you.
Because sometimes the bravest thing you'll ever do isn't picking up the sword.
It's learning, one day at a time, to lay it down.
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