{ Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken by Sydney Anne Bennet - TLC Book Tour }

 

About Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken: Fighting for Faith When You’re Falling Apart

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (April 28, 2026)
• Paperback: 240 pages

Are you battling chronic struggles—whether physical, mental, emotional, relational, or social? Are they eating away at your faith? Sydney Anne Bennett has been there.

She knows what it is to live in a body that is unraveling, a world that doesn’t understand, and a church that doesn’t always know what to say. With compassion, wit, and quiet strength, Sydney invites you to remember that some of life’s fiercest battles are fought flat on your back—and not one of them is wasted.

In Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken, Sydney shares her story of becoming disabled just two weeks after her honeymoon and learning to live with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)—a condition that disrupts the brain’s ability to send correct signals to the body, resulting in daily seizures, mobility loss, and chronic pain.

Learning to live with this disability, as well as the loss and pain that comes with it, has been one of her greatest struggles as well as the way in which God is building her strength. But Sydney doesn’t just talk about disability—she lives with it, coaches on it, and laughs through it, inviting her readers to join her journey. Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken aims to:

• discover practical strategies for coping with chronic struggles and limitations;
• make peace with questions and embrace the daily fight for faith;
• uncover strength in weakness and dignity in dependence; and
• receive heartfelt hope and encouragement to keep going—even when healing doesn’t come.

Sydney will be your unafraid guide through whatever valley you are walking through, normalizing doubt and the daily fight for faith, and recognizing the presence of God there.

About the author

Sydney Anne Bennett is a writer, disability advocate, and speaker who helps people struggling with chronic illness and pain find confidence and hope again—while pointing them to Jesus.

Two weeks after her honeymoon, Sydney became disabled and was later diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a condition that disrupts the brain’s ability to send correct signals to the body. She experiences daily seizures, chronic pain, and mobility loss—and often uses a wheelchair.

In 2022, Sydney began sharing her story on Instagram as a way of processing grief, faith, and the strange in-between of being both young and disabled. Today, she encourages a global audience of over 300,000 people with honesty, humor, and hope that leans hard on Jesus.

She lives in Idaho with her husband, Colton, their daughter, Hadassah, and are joyfully awaiting the arrival of their second child in fall 2025.

 

 

My thoughts:

I have been on a faith filled journey.  As close as I believe I am to God, it never seems enough, and there is a constant daily battle against my mind.  Against the fears, the worries, the anxieties.  It's a never ending cycle that becomes quite exhausting after a while.

 

In my attempt to get closer to God and to shift my way of thinking, I have been reading a lot of Christian non fiction this year.  When I had the opportunity to receive a copy of Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken, I immediately said yes.  Not because I can relate to Sydney's personal health struggles, but as a Christian woman, I can certainly relate to the health anxiety and fears that seems to strike us all.

 

I love that Sydney wrote this book not only to share her personal struggles, but also at the same time encouraging and pointing us towards the one that can help through it all.  Jesus.

 

She writes in a way that feels like a conversation on paper, rather than a clinical medical report.  It made it easy to quickly read through it.

 

What do we do when we seek healing for ourselves or a family member, or friend, and it seems the healing never comes?  

How do we have faith through these situations and daily struggles?

 

Sydney uses her own tools to manage her disability, to help us learn ways to deal with life and those difficult moments.

 

Wonderfully told by an incredibly strong and courageous woman.

 

 

Thank you to TLC Book Tours and Thomas Nelson, for providing me with a copy.