Books
Books by Dr. Dee
Welcome to the Pen of Healing.
Every word I write flows from lived experience. The tears, the prayers, the questions, and the breakthroughs. When you join the Pen of Healing journey, you are not just reading a book. You are stepping into a movement where grief is met with grace, pain is met with purpose, and broken pieces are transformed into bold living.
Take a look at what's inside my book
Purchase Dr. Dee's Best Selling
Joy in the Journey™ Book Series
Maya & Cory – The Map of Me
(Grades K–4)
Children in early grades often feel big emotions but don't always have the words to express them.
The Map of Me helps young readers name their feelings, discover who they are, and build resilience.
Give K–4 students a safe space to explore identity and emotions while learning healthy ways to process loss and rediscover joy.
Jada & Brandon – Unlocking Me
(Grades 5–8)
Middle school students navigate identity, belonging, and peer pressures while carrying silent grief and transitions.
Unlocking Me provides relatable stories and journaling prompts that help students process change and unlock their voice.
Empower 5–8 graders with tools to face grief, build resilience, and step into their next chapter with strength and self-awareness.
Leah & Elijah – Becoming Me
(Grades 9–12)
High schoolers often juggle academic pressures, personal loss, and questions of identity, leaving many overwhelmed.
Becoming Me guides teens through honest conversations about grief, resilience, leadership, and purpose.
Equip 9–12 graders to embrace healing and lead with clarity, courage, and confidence beyond the classroom.
Rooted & Rising
College Edition
(Ages 18–24)
College students face major transitions, independence, and often hidden grief while navigating identity and purpose.
Rooted & Rising blends reflective storytelling, faith, and resilience to help young adults stay grounded during seasons of change.
Provide college students and young leaders with a framework to rise with purpose and carry resilience into every area of life.
What is Grief?
Grief is not just about death—it shows up in divorce, trauma, broken relationships, job loss, health challenges, and shattered dreams. It's the silent weight people carry when life no longer looks the way they imagined.
Freedom Positioning System
Spiritual Navigation to Freedom for Your Spirit, Soul & Body
In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Darlene "Dr. Dee" Williams introduces the Signature Freedom Positioning System (FPS), a faith-centered framework designed to help you break free from the chains of grief, trauma, self-doubt, and spiritual stagnation.
Drawing from Scripture, lived experience, and over 30 years of coaching and leadership, Dr. Dee guides you through a 10-pillar journey that addresses the whole person—spirit, soul, and body.
This isn't theory—it's transformation. With practical tools, reflective exercises, and biblical truths, you'll discover how to release limiting beliefs and cycles that keep you bound, renew your mind with faith-driven clarity and boldness, rebuild your life with purpose, authenticity, and joy, and walk in spiritual freedom that impacts every area of your life.
Whether you are navigating grief, reclaiming your identity, or seeking deeper alignment with God's plan, the FPS framework will position you to rise above obstacles and live in lasting freedom.
✨ It's time to be free—let's go!
Father, Mother, Sister: My Grief – BUT GOD: Moving Forward Without Pieces Of My Heart
is an Amazon Best Seller that takes readers on a deeply personal and faith-filled journey through the raw reality of loss.
In these pages, Dr. Darlene "Dr. Dee" Williams shares her lived experience of losing her parents and sister, revealing not only the depths of grief but also the sustaining power of God's presence. With honesty and courage, she shows how faith can anchor us in the darkest seasons, proving that even when pieces of our hearts are shattered, God's grace carries us forward.
The companion workbook, Moving Forward Without Pieces of My Heart: A Healing Journey After Grief and Loss, offers a hands-on guide to apply what the book inspires. Through reflective exercises, journaling prompts, and trauma-informed faith practices, readers are guided step by step through their own healing process.
This practical resource helps individuals name their pain, process their emotions, and take intentional steps toward restoration and renewed purpose.
Together, the book and workbook form a powerful duo—one that speaks to the heart and equips the spirit. Whether you are grieving the loss of a loved one, supporting someone in their sorrow, or seeking to understand the role of faith in healing, this collection will remind you that grief may shape your story, but it does not define your destiny.
✨ A story of loss, a roadmap for healing, and a testimony of faith: Because even in grief, God makes a way.
Dr. Dee's eBooks
Free Digital resources for leaders ready to restore clarity, reclaim capacity, and move forward with purpose.
Unbound Again
A Grief Informed Guide to Reclaiming Peace, Purpose, and Capacity
For the leader who looks fine on the outside but feels emotionally maxed out on the inside. This guide reframes grief as more than death and helps you recognize what your body and nervous system have been carrying through fatigue, overwhelm, and the urge to withdraw.
You will learn practical ways to restore emotional capacity, reset your identity, and move into the new year with a clear recovery plan using Dr. Dee's frameworks for rest, stabilization, and renewal.
From Broken to Bold
7 Healing Truths to Reclaim Your Joy
A faith-filled guide for anyone carrying grief, burnout, betrayal, or a life shift and ready to breathe again. Walk through seven healing truths with affirmations and reflection prompts that help you release labels, name what you have lost, surrender what you were never meant to carry, and rebuild your joy with God at the center.
It is a gentle place to land and a strong next step forward.
Dr. Dee's Contributing Author Book Series
