Guilt has a cousin, shame.
When you wish you had made a different decision, shame and regret move in.
Your past is not your story. God created your destiny. He came to save souls, heal brokenness, and offer lasting freedom.
Dawn Van Beck’s journey past shame is a raw, intimate exploration, marked by both uncommon vulnerability and a unique, sassy wit that shines through every step.
No devastating force of shame in your life is greater than God’s plan to redeem it.
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About the Book
Deliver Me: Ditching Your Shame. Embracing God’s Freedom. is a book about the weight women carry in private, and about the God who never intended them to carry it at all.
Dawn writes from her own story, and she doesn’t tidy it up first. What she offers instead is a raw, intimate walk through her own journey past shame, told with uncommon vulnerability and the kind of sassy wit that makes a hard subject possible to sit with. This is not a book that asks you to try harder or believe better. It tells you the truth, stays with you in it, and then shows you the way out.
Third place, 2025 Golden Scroll Christian Living Book of the Year
2026 International Christian Book Award Winner
What You’ll Find Inside
This is a book you’ll come back to on hard days, again and again, to help you find your way back to freedom.
Inside its 188 pages you’ll find:
A Few Featured Chapters
Mistaken Identity
This chapter explores your identity in Christ and summons you to remind yourself of who you were before the stress of life shaped you.
I’m Too Busy Being Busy
This chapter helps you discover how, sometimes, keeping a full calendar may be a way to avoid dealing with issues in your life that need your attention.
Frazzled By Fear
This chapter identifies some of the darker, secret irrational fears you may be carrying, which paralyze you and hinder you from moving forward in your life.
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall
This chapter illustrates how you can sabotage yourself with your own negative self-talk, and directs you to see yourself as God sees you.
Along The Journey
This chapter investigates the many changes you may go through in life, both good and bad, and how God ultimately uses your changes to restore you to Him.
Help! May Parents Grew Old
This chapter reflects what it means to honor your parents, even when difficult, but also uncovers how past shame can interfere with the important relationship between you and your aging parents.
Author · Speaker · Writer
About the Author
I write for the woman who is silently convinced that what she did disqualifies her. I know her well, because I was her for a very long time.
My first readers found me through fun short stories I had posted on my own website, which is how I ended up published in the first place. Since then I’ve published several short story collections and two children’s books. Deliver Me is the book I actually needed to write.
Since the book’s release, I’ve led a book study on the book with women at my own church, and the conversations in that room are the reason I keep sharing my message. Shame gets quieter when it’s shared out loud in good company.
When I’m not writing, you’ll find me in sunny (and very hot) Florida rummaging through antique shops, getting silly with my grandchildren, or relaxing on my back porch with a good book.
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You don’t have to take my word for whether this book is for you. Read a portion of one chapter, and if it sounds like someone who understands what you’re carrying, this book is your invitation to freedom.
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