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It’s Okay If You’re Falling Apart
Coming August 2027
Forthcoming · InterVarsity Press · August 2027
It’s okay if you’re falling apart
How to rediscover your identity, recover your joy, and rebuild yourself after burnout.
Not the five-step-listicle version of recovery, but the slower, neuroscience-backed, faith-rooted kind. The email list hears about pre-orders and the cover reveal first.
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What it’s about
Burnout doesn’t always announce itself as a crisis. Often it’s quieter than that — a slow erosion of the person you used to be, disguised as productivity, as coping, as “fine.” This book is for the people in that quiet unraveling. The ones who look put-together on the outside and are running on fumes on the inside.
It draws on the same toolkit as everything else I make: faith that isn’t naive, neuroscience that isn’t intimidating, and honesty over toxic positivity. No five-step listicles, no Instagram-filter healing. Just what it actually takes to notice you’re burned out, tell the truth about it, and rebuild — one small, real step at a time.
The author
Melie Williams is a resilience strategist, coach, and podcast host who rebuilt her own life after divorce and burnout — and now helps others do the same, using neuroscience, faith, and honesty over toxic positivity.