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Courageous

Burnt Out Not Broken (A Journey of Faith, Healing, and Renewal)

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Pub Date 28 Jul 2026 | Archive Date 22 Aug 2026


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Description

Stepping Out in Courage and in Faith

If you had the opportunity to exchange your pain for a new life would you do it—even if it meant shedding everything around you?

Author Dawn Burnett did just that. Courageous: Burnt Out, Not Broken—A Journey of Faith, Healing, and Renewal is a powerful, deeply personal story of resilience, reinvention, and self-discovery. After years of pushing through burnout, trauma, and life’s myriad unexpected challenges, she made the bold decision to let go of everything familiar—her career, her home, her possessions—and step into a nomadic journey exploring continents and crossing oceans in search of purpose, peace, and truth.

Through raw storytelling and reflective insight, this book explores themes of childhood conditioning, relationships, loss, faith, and the courage it takes to rebuild from the ground up. It is a testament to the strength found in surrender, the healing power of forgiveness, and the freedom that comes from releasing what no longer serves you.

More than a memoir, it is an invitation—to choose courage over fear, to embrace change, and to trust that even in life’s most uncertain moments, you are not broken . . . you are becoming.
Stepping Out in Courage and in Faith

If you had the opportunity to exchange your pain for a new life would you do it—even if it meant shedding everything around you?

Author Dawn Burnett did just...

Marketing Plan

BOP Girl Lifestyle Brand is in the book, including the BOP Girl wine and BOP Girl song.

Pitches Made:

TV:

The Author's Chair 

PRINT:

Executive Function Magazine (Aug issue)

Good Housekeeping, Parade Magazine, and AARP

WAITING ON RESPONSES:

Oprah Podcast, Mel Robbins Podcast, Jay Shetty, Rich Roll, Diary of a CEO, and Mindbodygreen

ADDITIONAL PODCASTS

Midlife Reclaimed, The Mindful Midlife Crisis, Women in the Middle, Women Road Warriors, The Midlife Reinvention, Let's Talk Memoir, Memoir Nation & Disrupt and Discuss

BOOK REVIEWS (Waiting on a response)

Book Reporter, Mindful, and Spirituality & Health 

BOOK CLUBS: (Waiting on a response)

Amerie's Book Club (A perfect fit)

BOOK AWARDS (Waiting on results)

Living Now, Story Trade, Best Indie & International Impact Book Awards 

MUSIC PODCASTS /Magazines (The song is in the book and was co-written with a 5-time Grammy Award Winner)

Consequence, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Indiehiphop.com, A&R Factory, And The Writer Is, The Working Songwriter, The New Music Business w/Ari Herstand, Soundcentric Music, This Song is Yours, IAAS Music, The Songbird HQ, and Drowned in Sound

MUSIC AWARDS (Waiting on results)

USA Song Competition, Global Music & John Lennon



BOP Girl Lifestyle Brand is in the book, including the BOP Girl wine and BOP Girl song.

Pitches Made:

TV:

The Author's Chair 

PRINT:

Executive Function Magazine (Aug issue)

Good Housekeeping, Parade...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781968127411
PRICE $18.99 (USD)
PAGES 256

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