Picked to
Survive

Picked to Survive looks at life’s challenges, events, experiences, and victories through the lens of spoken word, poetry, and short story. Picked examines the survivorship of those picked out and picked on and declares them victors. Picked to Survive themes embrace harsh truths while exploring the intensity of pain, loss, grief, shame, heartache, and heartbreak, by exposing provocative relationships, complicated spiritual attachments, and personal traumas.

Through the author’s poetry, she accounts her personal battle of surviving childhood struggles, bad relationships, losing loved ones, and stage two ovarian cancer; she, in return, encourages her readers to lean into life’s happenings, hold their heads up high, and trust that God has a plan for their lives.

The author’s work shows how believing and trusting God through every circumstance can bring healing into a situation, even as life storms come. Giving up and letting go is not an option; she reminds her readers that, “God sees you; God chooses you, and will lift you up from among all of the withering flowers in the garden and pick you to survive”.

Author, Gwendolyn Taylor

Gwendolyn is a dynamic speaker, writer, and leader. Through her poetry and spoken word, Gwendolyn empowers women to be authentic by writing and telling their true stories.

Gwendolyn has used her poetry to help heal, transform, and encourage others in houses of worship during celebrations, moments of sadness, and during grief and loss. She believes that writing heals and she has used it as a platform to express her journey through cancer, treatment, and recovery.

Gwendolyn is able to find strength in God during her most difficult times because she believes that with God, all things are possible. In 2021, Gwendolyn was admitted to a New York hospital and diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer. It was a diagnosis that changed her life, redirected her path, and connected her to her new National Ovarian Cancer Coalition “NOCC” family. The NOCC family has inspired her to do more, be more, and live more.

As new chapters unfold and God gives her grace to see a new day, Gwendolyn has vowed to encourage other survivors, live every day with love, laugh more, and grow in gratefulness.

Picked to
Survive

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