Some books are written from the other side of hard. This one was written from the middle of it.

Desiree D. Lindsey was building her dream life — a thriving nonprofit, a career she loved, a loft in Dallas that felt like proof she was on her way — when her body stopped cooperating. What followed were years of emergency surgeries, a colostomy, a proctectomy that left her cut from her belly to her knees, months in hospital beds, and the slow painful work of rebuilding everything she thought she was.

You Can Do Hard Things While Things Are Hard is the story of what happens when the life you planned disappears and you have to find the courage to build a new one anyway. It is about chronic illness and faith that gets tested and sometimes goes quiet. It is about the relationships that cost you and the ones that carry you. It is about learning to advocate for yourself when no one else will, to receive love you do not think you deserve, and to create something meaningful while you are still in the middle of surviving.

Written while she was still healing — still waiting on medical results, still navigating complications, still choosing hope on the hard days — this memoir is proof that purpose does not wait for perfect circumstances.

If you are in your hardest season right now this book was written for you.

You can do hard things while things are hard. Not after. Right now. In the middle of it.