Two-Hour Tuesdays
Laura Joy’s Writer’s Growth Blog Turned Book
New Release — June 2026
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Paperback — $13.99
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Published by Writer’s Growth Press
ISBN 979-8-9955469-1-7
Before the diagnosis had a name, there was a Tuesday night.
For most of a decade, you could find Laura Joy Palma on her front porch in a white wicker loveseat — a laptop, a glass of red wine, and two hours to process an unquiet mind. What began as a way to survive the week became Writer’s Growth: a blog that, one night at a time, wrote her back to life.
Two-Hour Tuesdays gathers the first three and a half years of that ritual, before a brief sabbatical — the story of how a weekly practice became a lifeline, and how showing up to the page slowly returned her to herself, and to faith.
If Fearfully, Wonderfully, and Bipolar-ly Made is where Laura Joy landed, this is where it began — the story before the story. For anyone who has ever written, prayed, or simply kept showing up, one ordinary night a week, to find their way back.
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Fearfully, Wonderfully, and Bipolar-ly Made
From Shame to Sanctuary
#1 New Release in Counseling & Psychology eBooks on Bipolar Disorder
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Paperback — $15.99
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“Her brutally honest and vulnerable acknowledgement of bipolar disorder will serve well others who find themselves wrestling to understand their swings from melancholy to mania. Bipolar disorder is not a sin, and we in the Christian community must cease treating those who struggle with it as if they suffered from some form of spiritual leprosy. Perhaps the most helpful truth she articulates so very well is that being a Christian does not insulate one from being diagnosed with a mood disorder. I cannot recommend it too highly.”
—Dr. Sam Storms, Ph.D. President, Convergence Church Network · Past President, Evangelical Theological Society · Author of 37+ books
Published by Writer’s Growth Press
ISBN 979-8-9955469-0-0
What happens when you’ve spent a lifetime hiding the thing that makes you different — and then decide to stop?
Laura Joy Palma spent decades masking the symptoms of bipolar II disorder: the sleepless nights rewritten as ambition, the crashes explained away as stress, the secret-keeping that became its own kind of illness. As a teacher, writer, and woman of faith, she built a life that looked stable from the outside — while quietly unraveling within.
Fearfully, Wonderfully, and Bipolar-ly Made is the book Laura Joy needed to read and couldn’t find. Part memoir, part guide, part call to action, it traces her journey from shame to sanctuary — through misdiagnosis, self-medication, broken relationships, and the slow, painful work of accepting a brain that doesn’t operate on anyone else’s terms.
This is not a clinical textbook. This is one woman’s voice saying: I am fearfully and wonderfully made — and I also live with bipolar disorder. Both things are true. For those still hiding and those who love them.
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