Books by Debbie R. Bailey
For Individuals seeing an emotionally compelling read
This novel compassionately portrays mental illness, addiction, and blended-family dynamics through a child caught between conflict and care. Nuanced characters explore faith, resilience, accountability, perseverance, and unconventional family bonds.
For Blended Families, Foster Children, Adoption
Angel is a special girl who finds her self in a confusing situation. While her parents both loved her, some things happened that required for her to be placed in a foster home. With this new home came questions wondering if she was at fault.
For Parents of Teens
The Bible tell us to train up a child in the way he should go; but church once a week isn’t enough. Leaving your child on their own to do devotionals and read The Word may not be practical. This devotional gives parents a God inspired game plan to incorporate the study and application of God’s Word in everyday life.
In our trouble God has comforted us—and this, too, to help you: to show you from our personal experience how God will tenderly comfort you when you undergo these same sufferings. He will give you the strength to endure.
2 Corthians 1:6-7 TLB
Pastor Rick Warren says, “God expects you to use your pain to help others. Whatever mistake, failure, trouble, trial, or bad decision you’ve experienced, God says, ‘I’ll still use it for good in your life. And I expect you to use it to help others.’
This is called redemptive suffering.”
Hello, my name is Debbie Bailey. I am a wife, a mother, and a woman who has a deep passion for God’s Word and for helping His children. Life has taken me through many seasons—some beautiful, some incredibly difficult, and some that brought me to my knees. Through every season, I have learned that God is faithful, even when life doesn’t make sense.
I believe one of the hardest things for people when they seek counseling, read a book, or listen to someone share their story is wondering, “Does this person really understand what I’m going through?”
People don’t necessarily want to hear the same old, “Just give it to God, and everything will be okay.” They want to know that the person speaking to them understands that life can be messy, painful, complicated, and heartbreaking. They want to know that someone has experienced difficult seasons, faced battles, cried out to God, and continued to stand when life felt overwhelming.
I remember attending women’s Christian conferences when I was younger and looking up at the speaker, wondering, “Does she really get it? Has she ever been through what I’ve been through? Has she ever felt like she had reached the end of herself? Has she cried out to God in more than one area of her life?”
I believe those questions matter.
I’m not going to share all of my personal baggage here, but I will share some of the difficult circumstances I have experienced, witnessed, or walked alongside others through:
- Religion
- Cancer
- Death
- Rape
- Abortion
- Condemnation
- Health Issues
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Infidelity
- Divorce
- Single Parenting
- Mental illness, including Bipolar and schizophrenia
- Blended family
- Drugs
- Abuse
- Jail
- Court
- Co-Parenting
- Financial Struggles
- Caring for aging parents
- Family separation
- The impact of suicide
These experiences have taught me something very important: life can be incredibly hard, but God is still good.
My strength does not come from having all the answers. My strength comes from the Lord. The more deeply I dive into His Word, the more I discover freedom, peace, wisdom, and hope.
That is what I want for you and your family. I want you to experience true freedom.
Galatians 5:1 says, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
My favorite scripture is John 8:32, “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Amen.
So many people read the word or listen to the word but do not apply it. It is so important to apply God’s word, speak His word, know His promises and claim them for you and your family.
I wrote the book, Getting it to Stick: A Parent’s Devotional to Incorporate God’s Word Into the Life of Your Teen to help parents bring God’s Word into the everyday lives of their teenagers.
One of the things that has blessed me most is hearing parents say that the book helped them before the wisdom ever reached their teen.
I’ll admit something that still makes me laugh. I was once talking with my longtime friend and mentor about a stressful situation in my life. She looked at me and said, “Debbie, go to page 27 in your book and read that section.”
I laughed because she was absolutely right. Sometimes we need to go back and remind ourselves of the very truths we have encouraged others to believe!
My second book, Angel: A Special Girl with a Unique Family, is also very close to my heart. It was written for children who may be navigating circumstances that look different from what they see around them.
Children experiencing family changes, difficult circumstances, or non-traditional homes can carry confusion, questions, and emotions that are very real. They need to know that their feelings are valid, that they are not alone, that they are loved, and that there is nothing wrong with them because their family looks different.
My third book, Shaking Ground, deals with mental illness. This disease doesn’t only affect the person with it but those around them. This fiction story is about two women. One diagnosis. Moments of collision, chaos, and unexpected connection. When Liz, a free-spirited woman with a magnetic presence and a hidden battle, meets Faith, her ex-husband’s new wife, neither could have predicted how deeply their lives would intertwine. What begins with tension and resentment slowly unravels into something far more complicated – and far more powerful.
Liz lives with bipolar disorder, a condition that has shaped every corner of her world. Her story is one of survival through the chaos – marked by soaring highs, devastating lows, and a haunting question: will the people she loves stick around through it all?
Faith never planned to step into another woman’s storm. But life had other ideas. As the two women clash, confront, and ultimately connect, they discover what it truly means to love, to endure, and to see someone fully – even in their darkest moments.
Told in raw, alternating voices and inspired by true events, Shaking Ground is a gripping, emotionally layered novel about mental illness, forgiveness, and the fierce, fragile bonds between women who never planned to share a child.
I have also had the opportunity to counsel and walk alongside many women and teenagers. Through those experiences, I have seen how much people need someone who will listen without judgment, encourage them in their faith, and help them find practical ways to apply God’s Word to their lives.
My hope is to continue sharing what God has taught me through the difficult seasons of my own life and through the lives of the people He has allowed me to walk beside.
If you are struggling with family difficulties, relationships, parenting, mental illness within your family or circle of influence, grief, difficult circumstances, or simply trying to find your way back to God, I want you to know that you are not alone.
God has not forgotten you.
Sometimes our hardest seasons become the very places where God teaches us the most about His faithfulness.
I would love to hear your story.
May our Heavenly Father bless you, keep you, strengthen you, and give you peace.
Blessings,
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