Welcome Message from Dee
Hello, my name is Dee Gibson, and I would like to welcome you to my website and blog. My new book Find Your Roar was originally conceived in the fall of 2019 when I was talking to my son about my progressive speech challenges. I was having increasing difficulties with being loud and understood by family and friends. My son, Andy, was visiting from South Carolina and he shared with me that he had been praying for my healing and that I would be able to get my voice back. This was the time the seed was planted for the book Find Your Roar.
My vision for this website and blog is to be able to share with you how I found my roar, even though my physical voice has not been healed. My hope and prayer is that you will be able to find encouragement and hope from my experience with having Parkinson’s disease, that you would gain valuable perspective on living a full and complete life despite a diagnosis, and that you would understand your diagnosis doesn’t have to define you as a person. As long as you and I have breath, God has a purpose for us and there is a purpose in our pain.
My goal for this website is to bring you insights from my book and elsewhere regarding living and learning to thrive with Parkinson’s Disease. I hope to be able to include testimonials from other fellow travelers who happen to have Parkinson’s disease or another unwanted diagnosis, so that we might learn from those who have not only survived but lived an abundant life with joy despite their traumatic life circumstances. I’ll also provide resources such as websites, written material and podcasts which will allow you to learn from others.
Finally, if you are a fellow traveler living with this disease or you are caring for someone who has the disease, I hope I can be a spiritual encouragement to you. It is my desire that whether you are a skeptic, curious about your faith, or a believer, that you will find hope and answers for the challenges you are facing in your life today. Although this is not the work I planned to do, it is the work that is before me. I pray you might join me as we journey together on this road we are called to travel.