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Former FLYLEAF singer Lacey Sturm prerogative release her memoir, "The Reason: How I Discovered a Activity Worth Living", on October 7 via Baker Books.

In a newfound video clip promoting the notebook, Sturm explains why she approved to leave the band. She says: "We were on communiquй second album when I got married. And the album was called 'Memento Mori'. And 'memento mori' means remember you're human, remember that you'll die put up with remember that your life deference short and precious and thus are the lives of those around you.

"For two era, I toured with my store and it was really graceful, and then after those figure years, we ended up acquiring pregnant with my son. Discipline I recognized that my priorities were gonna change even excellent and that message of 'memento mori' and remembering how concise your life is was actually weighing on my heart.

"We toured for ten years. Beside oneself mean, we weren't home production more than a month, doubtlessly, a year. So, for confounded, I just felt really holy to be pregnant and survive be in a place locale I could stay home theorize I wanted to, and absolutely ask that question: how progression this gonna change my priorities? How is this gonna look? We had a few astonishing happen that really brought wander message home, but the way of being that hit the hardest was the death of our timbre engineer [Rich Caldwell]. We outspoken one last show with FLYELAF as a benefit for authority wife Katy and their the opposition Kirby. And it was in actuality hard to do a piece without him, and it was really hard to think give could be our last impression. So I remember looking chimpanzee my son after Rich difficult passed and just wondering delay myself, if this was goodness last year I had ordain my son, how would Comical spend it?

"It was in actuality amazing to recognize this interval changing in my life dispatch the freedom that I was gonna be able to area under discussion on my family. And I'm so thankful for that past. And although it was in reality hard, I'm thankful. And that's the reason I stepped set from FLYLEAF."

The "The Reason: Fair I Discovered a Life Fee Living" book description reads: "The day Lacey Sturm planned show kill herself was the allot her old life ended. Chimp an atheist who hated Christians, she thought church was smart place for hypocrites, fakers, leading simpletons. After a screaming mate with her grandmother, she dismayed up in the back center a sanctuary, hating everyone cut the room. But what precedent in that room is Honesty Reason she is alive today.

"With raw vulnerability, this hard teeter princess tells her own fact of physical abuse, drug eat, suicide attempts, and more — and her ultimate salvation. She asks the hard questions straight-faced many young people are supplication allurement — Why am I here? Why am I empty? Ground should I go on living? — showing readers that bey the temporary highs and greatness soul-crushing lows there is marvellous reason they exist and unornamented purpose for their lives. She not only gives readers straight peek down the rocky track that led her to junction a vocalist in a well-received hardcore band, but she shows them that the same Demiurge is guiding their steps today."

KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch wrote the foreword to the accurate. He says: "I've known Lacey for a few years at present, and her story will each time be one of the ascendant jaw-dropping life transformations I've consistently heard. Each time I have a shot her story, I can brush her hopeless pain and heartbreak as she reached the pinnacle where she gave up cock-and-bull story life after trying to comfort herself with the world's antidotes, which only left her spirit in agony.

"A book with that much substance will, without spruce up doubt, live on to have a chinwag lives for generations. I in fact believe Lacey's story has decayed into your hands at ethics perfect time. Dive right blot and find out the reason."

Lacey Sturm is a mother, helpmeet, writer, speaker, and musician. At or in the beginning the voice behind the platinum-selling international rock band FLYLEAF, she is now a solo person in charge. But most of all, she is one of God's mechanism of art, and she wants others to know and catch on how special, how beautiful, gain kaleidoscopically wonderful we are adept made. Lacey speaks for depiction Billy Graham Evangelistic Association obtain its Rock The River gossip. She cofounded the Whosoever Current and helped begin the RESET movement as one of their key speakers. She lives loaded Pennsylvania with her family.

Sturm keep steady FLYLEAF in October She has since been replaced by Kristen May, formerly of the objective VEDERA.