From Buried to Alive

From Buried to Alive: A True Story of Healing, Self-Worth, and Rising from Survival to a Life of Freedom

For years, Lina Jurgilė told people her childhood was perfect. She wasn't lying — she just didn't have the words for what was actually happening: a quiet, watchful little girl learning that being unnoticed was the safest way to survive, a young wife shrinking herself to keep the peace, a mother swallowing her own truth night after night to hold a family together that was quietly falling apart.

From Buried to Alive is the true story of what happened when she finally stopped surviving and started living. It follows Lina from a childhood shaped by silence and fear, through an early marriage that slowly buried her, to the terrifying decision to say the words I want a divorce — and further still, to the year she left her own sons behind to work farms in the UK, rebuilding a future for them from nothing. It follows her back to her children, through the awakening that came when she finally asked what if it isn't them — what if it's me?, and into the healing work — Reiki, energy work, mindset coaching — that became not just her recovery, but her calling.

This isn't a book about blame. It's a map — honest, unflinching, and often tender — for any woman who has ever smiled on the outside while something inside her felt heavy; who has been strong for everyone but herself; who has wondered if it's too late to choose a different life.

It isn't. As Lina writes to the woman reading this: your history is a place you've been, not who you are.