Speaking
Ruthie Lindsey is a somatic coach, speaker, and the author of There I Am (Simon & Schuster). She speaks on embodiment, the body as teacher, the work that comes after years of inner work, and what it actually takes for a life to change from the inside out. She has shared her story onstage around the world, drawing audiences who are ready to move from understanding their lives to inhabiting them.
At seventeen, Ruthie was hit by an ambulance outside a gas station in rural Louisiana — breaking her neck, puncturing her lungs, rupturing her spleen, and defying a 1% chance she'd ever walk again. She walked out of the hospital a month later. Years later, a wire from that spinal fusion broke and pierced her brain stem, slowly pulling her away from everything she loved: her marriage, her faith, her body, herself. What followed were years of chronic pain, loss, and the kind of unraveling that cannot be reasoned away. What came after that is the story she tells now. Ruthie's message is both simple and radical: the healing we're searching for is already living inside us, waiting to be found.
Topics
Embodiment and the nervous system
Living with chronic pain
Trauma-informed somatic work
Parts work and self-compassion
The work that comes after inner work
The threshold moment in any woman's life
Audiences
Wellness, retreat, and women's events
Trauma and embodiment conferences
Healthcare and chronic pain communities
Faith and spirituality conferences
Mental health organizations
Colleges and universities
SPEECH TOPICS:
The Threshold
THEME: The work after the work / Embodiment / Why insight is not enough
You can name your patterns. You can teach them. You can see them in everyone else's life. And in your own body, you cannot quite live free of them. That gap is not a failure. It is the threshold. In this talk, Ruthie names what is actually happening in the moment between knowing your life and inhabiting it, and what it takes to finally cross over.
The Body As Teacher
THEME: Chronic pain / Somatic wisdom / The body's intelligence
At seventeen, Ruthie's body was rebuilt with wire. At thirty, that same wire pierced her brain stem. She has lived with chronic pain her entire adult life. In this talk, she shares what the body taught her that no therapist, no book, no breathwork session could, and how a body in pain became her most devoted teacher.
Coming Home To Yourself
THEME: Parts work / Self-compassion / Returning to wholeness
The parts of us we have been told to fix were never broken. They were protecting us the only way they knew how. In this talk, Ruthie offers a different framework for healing, one that does not ask anyone to abandon any part of themselves, and shows audiences what it actually means to come home to the wholeness that was here all along.
