The Year of Release eBook

Some seasons don't just change you — they unmake you.

The Year of Release is a guided journey for the ones who have been holding on too long. To pain that was never meant to be permanent. To identities shaped by crisis instead of calling. To fear dressed up as control.

Through seven chapters of deeply personal prose, vulnerable storytelling, and scripture-anchored truth, you will be guided through a transformative progression designed to meet you exactly where you are:

Release — Identifying what God is asking you to let go of and why surrender is not defeat but the beginning of something new.

Refinement — Learning to recognize the fire not as punishment but as preparation, and trusting the One who sits with you in it.

Rest — Discovering that true rest is not the absence of movement but the absence of striving — and that God is already holding what you fear is falling apart.

Revitalization — Finding that weariness is not evidence that you are losing, but that resistance is meeting your obedience, and allowing God to breathe fresh life into weary places while the winds are still blowing.

Relaxation — Releasing the burden of self-sufficiency and trusting God with who you are becoming, not just who you have been.

Recreation — Allowing God to restore you to who you were before fear, grief, striving, and self-protection distorted your understanding of yourself — and discovering the sacred work of becoming new in the wilderness.

The Rebuild — Stepping into the life God has been preparing for you all along, with a faith, identity, and purpose that survival could never have produced on its own.

If you are ready to lay down what no longer serves you, trust His leading, and make room for the life He is calling you into — this journey is for you.

Also available: the companion devotional The Year of Release: A Guided Reflection Workbook, designed to help you go deeper into every chapter through structured prompts, scripture meditation, and honest journaling before God.