You know when something in your life just isn’t sitting right. Maybe you’re exhausted from being everything to everybody, angry about something you keep pretending doesn’t bother you, overextending yourself and resenting it later, struggling to set a boundary without feeling guilty, or realizing that somewhere along the way you became very good at showing up for everyone except yourself.
Wounds don’t only hurt. They can teach. Rejection can teach you to perform for acceptance. Abandonment can teach you to hold onto people you should release. Betrayal can teach you that no one is safe, fear can make controlling things feel like the wise or responsible thing to do.
Loneliness can convince you that having the wrong person is better than having no one, shame can persuade you to hide, and years of putting yourself last can make self-betrayal look so much like love that you don’t recognize the difference anymore.
So what do you reach for when you know something is happening inside you, but you don’t quite understand what’s underneath it or what to do next?
Women, Wounds & Wake-Up Calls: A Biblical Handbook for the Things We Feel, Face & Fight is a comprehensive A–Z, Scripture-centered guide for the emotional wounds, relationship struggles, internal battles, difficult decisions, and unexpected seasons women face in real life. From abandonment, anger, anxiety, betrayal, bitterness, boundaries, burnout, and comparison to grief, loneliness, people-pleasing, rejection, shame, self-worth, toxic relationships, trauma, worry, and more, approximately 140 topics help you find the thing you’re facing and begin there.
Each topic helps you recognize what the struggle can look like in everyday life, consider what may be happening beneath the surface, identify the conclusions that pain, fear, relationships, disappointment, or past experiences may have quietly written into your thinking, and then bring those conclusions into conversation with Scripture.
What have you normalized because you’ve lived with it for so long? What are you tolerating because setting a boundary feels wrong? What are you calling forgiveness that may actually be avoidance, or strength when you’re running on empty? Is the fear of being alone making your relationship decisions? What have you believed about yourself because somebody else’s rejection, mistreatment, absence, betrayal, or inability to love you well made it feel true?
This is not simply a book to finish. It’s a handbook to keep.
Something hurts? Look it up. A relationship has you questioning yourself? Look it up. You’re exhausted from carrying everybody, can’t understand why you keep overgiving, find yourself repeating a pattern you promised you’d never repeat, or you suddenly realize that your reaction to something seems much bigger than the situation itself? Look. It. Up.
From the author of Women, Wounds & Wake-Up Calls, this companion handbook takes the conversation further. Unlike the original book’s guided 52-week journey, this A–Z handbook lets you enter wherever life has you standing and gives you a resource to return to as different seasons uncover different wounds, questions, fears, relationships, and places that need truth.