Domestic Violence
Survival & Faith
Rachel M. Harrison
Nobody Is Saving
Me But Me.
and the God that gave me the strength to do it
On October 26, 2025, Rachel M. Harrison was dropped at a hospital door by the man who had just nearly killed her. He did not give them her name. He did not stay. No one came to rescue her. So she rescued herself.
About the Book
On October 26, 2025, Rachel M. Harrison was dropped at a hospital door by the man who had just nearly killed her. He did not give them her name. He did not stay. On November 8, she was taken by ambulance. The same man.
She survived.
Nobody’s Saving Me But Me is the brutally honest memoir of what came before that door — the love that felt real, the isolation that crept in slowly, the violence that escalated until there was nowhere left to go — and what came after it. The silence of recovery. The system that nearly failed her. The Christmas she spent with no job, no money, and a $5,000 rent bill. The days she chose herself anyway, even when choosing herself meant choosing nothing but faith and willpower.
This is not a story about being rescued. No one came.
This is a story about the moment Rachel decided she was done waiting.
From the Pages
This is not a story about him. It is a story about what it took to survive the version of myself I became with him.
PrologueI thought survival meant holding on. I did not yet know that sometimes survival is the courage to let go.
PrologueTrauma doesn’t kill love. It complicates it. And when you love someone more than you love yourself — you don’t see the harm clearly.
Chapter 18Healing isn’t the absence of struggle. Healing is choosing yourself in spite of the struggle.
Chapter 22He didn’t change me. He revealed what needed to be healed. But the healing? The rising? The reclaiming? That was me.
Chapter 23Women don’t go back because they love the pain. They go back because the world gives them no safe way forward.
Chapter 15This Book Is For You If…
You loved someone who hurt you
And you still don’t fully understand how you got there, or why leaving felt impossible — even when you knew it was wrong.
Your body knew before your mind did
You felt the tightness, the dread, the exhaustion. But you rationalized it away. This book names what your body was already telling you.
You’ve been asked “why did you stay?”
And you’re tired of answering a question that misses the point entirely. Rachel gives voice to what that question gets wrong.
You’re in it, just getting out, or rebuilding
Wherever you are in the process — this memoir meets you there without judgment, without a tidy ending, without pretending it’s easy.
Faith carried you when nothing else could
This is an honest, faith-anchored story. Not performative. Not preachy. Just the raw truth of surviving with God as your only constant.
You need to know someone made it out
Some days you just need proof that survival is possible. That the other side exists. This book is that proof.
“The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:5
This memoir is not a polished testimony. It is a declaration — written from a hospital bed, from a courthouse, from the silence of a Christmas with nothing left. God remained. Even when Rachel could not feel Him. Even when the system failed her. Even when she had to fight alone. Nobody’s Saving Me But Me is the story of what faith looks like at the bottom of everything.
Rachel M. Harrison
Trauma-Informed Coach · Author · Survivor
Rachel M. Harrison is a trauma-informed coach, domestic violence survivor, and advocate for women reclaiming their lives after abuse. She guides women through patterns of trauma, helping them rebuild their sense of worth, trust their intuition, and step into the lives they deserve.
She works with women at all stages of their healing journey — those still in it, those just getting out, and those rebuilding on the other side. Her approach is grounded not in theory, but in truth: she has lived what she teaches.
This memoir is proof of that.
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