ABOUT THE BOOK

but first, HONESTY

Getting Real with God So Real Healing Can Begin

After the birth of her youngest child, Lynnelle Peters entered a frightening mental-health crisis. Intrusive thoughts, relentless anxiety, shame, and postpartum OCD left her questioning the faith she had always professed—and even her understanding of who she was.

In but first, HONESTY, Peters opens the door to the thoughts and fears she once believed were too dangerous to reveal. With remarkable vulnerability, she traces the roots of perfectionism, suppressed pain, trauma, and fear while showing how honest lament, confession, declaration, and surrender became part of her journey toward renewed hope.

Blending intimate memoir, biblical reflection, and practical insight into the mind and nervous system, Peters offers compassionate companionship to readers facing anxiety, grief, trauma, mental illness, or seasons when God feels painfully distant.