title: Loud Lies Silent Cries: 7 Lessons to Transform Pain into Power
author: Ashley Stewart Dowell
description: My name is Ashley Dowell. I write. For as long as I can remember, Ive hurt. And when I say, Ive hurt, I literally mean, Ive hurt. I spent so much time alone because I cried a lot. Sometimes a whole lot more than I would like to admit. One day, in the midst of the loneliness and crying, I picked up an ink pen and piece of paper and found peace from what I inked on the paper. I let the pain in my lips and hurt in my heart bleed out on the paper. And in that moment, I bled until a pool of blood dripped through my paper. I expected to be still hurting when I was done. But to my dismay, I wasnt. In fact, I was on a high that would last all night. That night was the moment that it clicked for me Some people get angry and destroy things when they hurt. Some people cry, shout, and call it quits. Some people call a friend or loved one, hoping that someone answers. Some people give in to lifes pressures and call it quits. Some people succumb to the noise in the crowd, instead of following their own heart. And some people do nothing. But not I! I cry. And to protect myself, sometimes, I tell myself a little white lie, while inside, another piece of me either dies or comes alive. Then I write. With this pen as my paintbrush and this paper as my canvas, I create a masterpiece that I know when picked up by another person will one day change their life. So again, I reintroduce myself. My name is Ashley Dowell. And I write. To save my own and hopefully someone elses life.
zlib_text: Make It Hurt is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  A Loveswept Ebook Original
  Copyright © 2016 by Jackie Ashenden
  All rights reserved.
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  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Copyright
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Epilogue
  Dedication
  Acknowledgments
  By Jackie Ashenden
  About the Author
  
  Chapter 1
  “Fuck,” Nora Sutcliffe muttered, staring out through the front windshield of her Mazda