DR. LINDA’S STORY OF RESILIENCE

FROM SURVIVAL TO TRIUMPH: A JOURNEY OF HEALING AND REDEMPTION

My life has been a journey spanning well over five decades, marked by unbelievable trauma, abandonment, rejection, and abuse at all levels. I grew up in a home with a physically abusive, alcoholic father, and a mother who, unable to deal with her own pain, emotionally and physically dumped her struggles onto myself and my brothers.

Relocating to North America as a teenager, in search of a better life, proved to be short-lived, as I found myself moving from one abusive relationship to the next, all while maintaining a highly toxic relationship with my mother.

By all projections, I should have ended up either insane, an addict, in jail, or six feet under. I contemplated suicide several times, but I knew that was not the solution. Had it not been for God's hands on my life,

I would not have survived an abusive marriage, divorce, several miscarriages, rejection, lies, and betrayal from church members, the end of my physical ministry, abandonment from friends, and several bouts of sickness from unspecified medical reasons.

I am alive today only by the grace of God to tell the story of survival. I know we should thrive and not merely survive, but I literally had to survive before I could testify to thriving. I am a woman who has overcome much. Today, I am married to a man who loves me, the mother of one adult daughter, an ordained minister, the founder and director of Linda P Jones Ministries, the Women of Worth online women’s ministry, and the Women of Worth Mentorship Academy – WOWMA.

I am a digital content creator, teacher, coach, author of over a dozen books, and hold a Doctorate in Practical Theology from Masters International University in Evansville, Indiana.