A More Resilient Narrative

Author, Belinda McDanel

Strength For Life’s Toughest Adversities

Strengthen your inner life by delving into a memoir that explores the author’s tumultuous experiences in 1970s El Salvador, where adversity relentlessly followed. Amidst war, danger, terrorist threats, and bombs, a missionary family persevered in upholding their faith.


Where do you find inner peace when life is utter chaos?

  • How to transition FROM feeling unsafe, useless and an outcast TO feeling secure, valued and included?
  • How do you work on transition? Are there steps?
  • Can I find inner peace when overwhelmed?
  • Are you handling strife outside your home like violence, danger, political unrest, social unrest and times of war?
  • Need someone to help you with inner life growth?

Benefits from a memoir

    • Cry a cathartic cry
    • Be inspired by a resilient story
    • Build your own resilience
    • Transform your inner life – starts with listening to your inner life
    • Find God in whispers - like a twinkle, or a flash, like a glimpse or an impression!

The Solution is to build your own inner strength

Write a more resilient story for yourself with guidance.

Listen to your Intuitive self. Identify the different voices in your head, heart, gut and spirit. If you don’t know how, we’ll teach you.

Learn to hold space for your thoughts and feelings. Capture the process with Journaling, if that is your thing.

Step by step guidance in a study guide and workbook. No need to worry. We provide questions and prompts to dig out what is inside of you.

Listen to our Podcast or Watch us on our YouTube Channel. Blue Goose Podcast for listeners and the Blue Goose Channel for your viewing pleasure.

Life Coaching Sessions. Make an appointment for a virtual Life Coaching Session. (Available on a limited basis.)

How are you so resilient?

The question I’m asked most often is: How are you so resilient? In fact, therapists have said, “You should be more messed up than you are considering the complicated trauma of your childhood.” Why is this so. My perspective of the world remains positive when life has been horrible.

My worldview in three sentences:

  • Every person has a resilient human spirit. Its all in the inner life.
  • Every person can access their inner life with practice.
  • Your inner life can provide you with an unlimited source of strength. It’s spiritual.

My family are the Perez’s. We traveled to four countries and four states because my parents are adventurous. When we arrived in El Salvador our adventures turned dangerous. El Salvador was going through a civil war but we didn’t know that when we arrived in 1977. My story has to do with me as a 13-year-old who dared to maintained a tender heart yet a tough mind but discovered instead strength from inklings of the spirit.

Hi I’m Belinda McdDanel. Pastor turned writer. Seminary-trained and Certified Transformational Life Coach.

My memoir is about:
Seven terrorist groups | Three countries | One missionary family


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