Recommended Reading “The Label Doesn’t Define You”

The human experience is one of trouble and transformation. It’s more uncommon and yet more uniting to find a shared human experience.

I met author Kayla Rose Warner at the annual Fresh Hope for Mental Health Gala last year. We hit it off immediately, as we sat at the same table and shared a similar diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Little did I know our stories were so similar. 

We swapped contact info and she so graciously gave me a copy of her book, a memoir, entitled The Label Doesn’t Define You: Using Mental Illness For God’s Glory. She shared her journey bravely and boldly in the book, from her teen years as a perfectionist young Christian and the ensuing unraveling of her mental illness. 

I read the book and highly recommend it. Similar to my memoir, she plots her journey into the world of bipolar disorder and its uncertainties and frightful realities. Warner also adds poetry, songs, and prose that helped her get through these times and heal. And she shares insight on how to live with a diagnosis when a label seems to limit us. Throughout her book she gives God the credit for her recovery and abundance of life, despite the life-long disease she carries. 

To order your own copy, visit her book’s Amazon page.