Lindhout spoke to 200 people at the Nelson Star's annual Find Your Divine event
Amanda Lindhout, kidnapped and tortured for 16 months in Somalia in 2008 while she was working as a journalist there, spoke to 200 people in Nelson on May 6 at the Nelson Star's Find your Divine event.
"I would try to begin to pay more attention to that quiet voice and to try to turn the volume up on that. Because if I could rest in that, even just for a minute or two, or 30 seconds or 10 seconds, it was relief from the hopelessness ... And what I found over time was that it got easier, it got much easier to connect to that part of myself."
Lindhout still uses that awareness to this day after many years of dealing with PTSD from the experience. She said the inhumanity of her captors is balanced by the kindness of the thousands of people who contributed financially to the ransom that eventually freed her. Lindhout told the audience some horrific stories about the violence and starvation she suffered, and she balanced these with details of how she got through it."Somehow, this little bird had flown into the house and was hopping around on this little bit of light on the floor. I had not seen a bird in over a year. I knew in an instant that that bird was a messenger of hope and in that moment, the desire to not be here anymore was gone and never came back again.
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