Fearfully, Wonderfully, and Bipolar-ly Made
From Shame to Sanctuary
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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. Past President, Evangelical Theological Society Executive Director, Convergence Church Network 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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