About The Book

At the heart of this book beats the loudest when she becomes a mother. Her son’s early birth, the long days in the NICU, and the grief she had to carry after unimaginable loss, all of it is shared with a softness that makes you stop and breathe. Tera doesn’t pretend to be a hero. She doesn’t hide the moments when she feels like she is falling apart or the days when getting out of bed feels impossible. Instead, she shows you how faith held her together when nothing else could.

The beauty of this story is that it doesn’t rush toward a tidy ending. It honors the messy parts: the anger, the doubt, and the small glimmers of hope that appear when you least expect them. Through every chapter, you can feel the presence of a God who never left her side, even when everything else did. Her healing isn’t dramatic; it’s slow, real, and honest, the way true healing always is.

“Survival Is My Rebellion” speaks to anyone who has ever felt broken, overlooked, or exhausted by life. It’s a reminder that pain doesn’t have the final say and that survival itself is an act of courage. It’s for the mother who cries quietly so no one sees, the daughter who carries too much responsibility, the woman who keeps going even when she has nothing left in her hands.

This book is more than a retelling of loss and recovery; it’s a companion for anyone who has lived through hard seasons and is still trying to find their footing. Tera’s story doesn’t promise easy answers, but it offers something far more meaningful: the truth that you can rise, slowly and quietly, even after everything in you has been shaken.

And maybe that’s the real message tucked inside these pages: surviving isn’t just getting through life. Sometimes, survival is the rebellion.