My Story of Resiliency & Gratitude

The journey to self-publishing tells my story of resilience and gratitude. Ghetto Chick (2009) - Ghetto Chick is a snapshot of my life for two years as I went through my divorce and entered into a relationship with a man that had more baggage than I did. Infused (2012) - After a failed marriage Lindar enters into a situationship with a love interest from her past. Cajun infuses and inspires Lindar to become a writer. Lindar has to learn many difficult lessons, including how to love herself. Once the relationship ends she goes on a quest of redemption to prove to the world and to herself that she is truly something special. #hespoilsme (2017) - Sometimes you can find love at an inconvenient time in your life. It's both magical and annoying. Soul searching and reflective. Demanding and rejecting. Later, you realize that it wasn't love. Rather, the illusion of it. Only illusions are painful. Diligently (2019) - November 5, 2018 will forever be etched as the day my inability to turn my car key lead to a 5 day stay in the hospital. I had suffered a stroke. Anxiety and depression consumed me on the road to recovery. The career I once loved began to crumble. Time to make a decision: do I settle in my brokenness or choose joy? My Daily Gratitude Journal (2019) - This journal assists you in seeing the goodness in your days and to remember to give thanks in all things. 8 Weeks to A Swimsuit - In March of 2020, after our governor announced a "Stay At Home" order because of Covid-19, I signed up with a local trainer who was offering an online workout program live on Facebook. I figured I could support a small business and maybe this would help me lose the weight that I had been carrying for years. The end result was me discovering parts of myself that I never knew existed even though they were always present. Diario De Mi Gratitude (2021) - In June of 2021 I had My Daily Gratitude Journal translated to Spanish.

The Journey To Creating A Book Cover - Arlinda Christine

Resiliency & Gratitude

     I have come to find that my writings tell a story. It is one of resiliency and gratitude. For a while I thought my writings were not connected. I’ve written poetry, fiction, a journal and a non-fiction book. Honestly, I thought “My collection is random and it doesn’t make sense.” Then one day I was on ClubHouse and the moderator, Teresa Hairston, told me that my writings tell the story of my resiliency.

     Not only had I never considered that idea, I never would have on my own.

     Today I got on Canva and created this video. In days to come I will expound on each book and tell why I wrote it and how I created it.

Ghetto Chick

Infused

#hespoilsme

Diligently

My Daily Gratitude Journal

8 Weeks To A Swimsuit

Diario De Mi Gratitud

     My writings began with a marriage separation and now I am in a state of gratitude. In all things give thanks.

Ghetto Chick Is On Sale On Amazon!!

This week has been super exciting!!! On June 30 Ghetto Chick was released in eBook format on Amazon. It tells the story of the point in my life where after a failed marriage I entered into a relationship that resulted in even more heartache. Through that brokenness, in 2008, I began to write and journal. During that time http://www.lindarinsights.blogspot.com and Ghetto Chick were birthed.

I’m so humbled by the response to it. When I finished writing Ghetto Chick, I had no idea what to do with it. I put it on a site to sale with a stock book cover and I just left it there. As I learned more about graphics I created the current cover and I knew that I was getting closer to what I wanted to achieve for my first book. A chance scroll on Instagram in May landed me in a two day course about making eBooks. After the first class I was already formatting the book. The interior reflects the beauty of the writings and the beauty of the cover.

I hope that when you receive your copy that you experience words of heartache, love and the desire of a woman, who after a failed marriage, while raising two incredible sons desired more and kept pressing despite the obstacles.

If I’ve learned nothing else in this process, I’ve learned that I was created for more. Check it out!!!!

PreOrder Ghetto Chick On Amazon Today!!

I’m so excited to share the release date for Ghetto Chick. Midnight, June 30, 2020.

You can preorder today on Amazon.

Ghetto Chick eBook Release June 2020

Ghetto Chick is a book of poetry and writings that I wrote in 2009, after my failed marriage and entering into a relationship way too soon after my separation. 

In that relationship, I was encouraged to learn about the business of self-publishing. Eventually the relationship took different turns which prompted me to grab a notebook to begin writing about my experiences. 

The title, Ghetto Chick, actually came out of a heated discussion where I responded, "You don't want a nice girl. You want a ghetto chick." Hence the title was birthed. 

Ghetto Chick is some of my most honest thoughts of a woman, who was left by her husband, while raising two beautiful brown boys, taken for granted by her lover and yet she still sought after God through the hurt, the pain and the discouragement. 

So, why now? Why release Ghetto Chickin 2020, eleven years after it was written? The most honest answer is, because it's time. Ghetto Chickrepresents so much. It's my first self-published book. It's the soundtrack to my book Infused. It will be my first book that I create in digital format. In essence, Ghetto Chick is my baby, it's my heart. It was the beginning of me having the courage to speak my truth. I didn't know that then. I truly realize it now. 

I'm looking forward to sharing a part of me that was so broken over a decade ago that it led me to writing and to following my dreams. I can't wait to share the beautiful digital Ghetto Chick eBook with you.