Fearfully And Wonderfully Made

Finalist, Inspirational Authors Recognition Award. 

This is where the story begins.

 As Liz Williams approached her fortieth birthday, the past she had buried for decades began to surface. Memories she had not permitted herself to carry, wounds she had learned to work around, a childhood shaped by abuse that no one had ever named as such. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made is the account of what happened when she finally stopped running and turned to face it.

 Divided into three parts covering Childhood, Early Adulthood, and Motherhood, this memoir traces the moment Liz began to understand that the struggles she had always believed were simply part of who she was were, in fact, the inheritance of early trauma. And that the God she had sought through those years had never left the places that felt most abandoned. 

Readers of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made have found: 

Recognition of their own story in Liz's account of growing up with an abusive father and carrying that weight into adulthood 

The healing power of faith and clinical treatment working together, not in opposition Practical spiritual practices for the kind of emotional freedom that sermons alone cannot always reach

 A path toward authentic purpose that does not require you to have everything figured out before you begin 

Biblical principles for breaking free from shame without being told to simply pray harder This is not a memoir written from safety, at a comfortable distance from the pain. It is written from the road, by a woman who was still walking it, for every woman who is walking it now.

 For readers ready to go deeper: Trampling the Snake is Liz's second memoir, where the clinical and spiritual healing work continues through her Complex PTSD diagnosis and recovery.