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What do you do when the people who were supposed to protect you become the ones who break you?

In What Forgiveness Asked of Me: A Memoir of Silence, Brokenness, and Choosing to Forgive, Zoey Lawson shares the unfiltered story of growing up in a conservative Christian home marked by childhood sexual abuse, emotional neglect, spiritual shame, and the long shadow of trauma. From a shy girl no one really saw to an adult who learned to survive by shrinking, performing, overeating, and hiding, Zoey spent decades believing she was unworthy of love and beyond real healing.

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This is not a graphic retelling of abuse. It is a story about what trauma does to a soul, a body, a faith, and a life. Zoey writes with honesty and wit about panic attacks in church, toxic messages from family and religion, years spent in a same-sex relationship trying to feel safe, the lifesaving gift of counseling and journaling, and the unexpected calling to foster a teenage boy while still untangling her own pain.

Through it all, a quiet theme keeps surfacing: a God who did not cause her trauma, but refused to waste it. If someone like Zoey can find light, hope, and a God who still chooses her, then maybe you can too.