I did not set out to write a workbook. This began the day I finished Strength in the Struggle: A Bible Study Workbook for Women on Letting Go of Fear and Anxiety by Lauren Ibach . I closed the book, sat there for a while, and felt both grateful and undone. God had met me in those pages. But I also sensed He was stirring something deeper in me, something unfinished. I remember thinking, I wish I had something like this earlier. Something that did not only show up in crisis, bu

I am struggling with self-identity outside of being a wife and a mom. This isn’t depression—I function fine—but for three years, a quiet shadow has clouded my inner self, making me short-tempered with my family. I’m tired of waiting for it to lift. My journey to find Katy again has to start with finding myself in the Lord, and it’s time for real action and change.

Let’s talk about the kind of faith that’s hard. Not the Sunday-morning, hands-raised, worship-is-flowing kind (though I love that kind...