Book: Brave Enough to Be Broken
Toni Collier, popular speaker and founder of the international women's ministry Broken Crayons Still Color, knows the answer. She’s lived the answer. After a lifetime of childhood trauma, navigating a toxic marriage and divorce, an unhealthy church, becoming a single parent and feeling betrayed, shame-filled and used. Because of her brokenness, she believed she was unworthy and unqualified to have a life of meaning and purpose. How could beauty and hope be born from her own painful life?
“Many women feel the pressure to be perfect, but what they really want is the freedom to be broken. They long to hear that their brokenness doesn’t discount them, and they want a way out of the pain that threatens to overwhelm them. Brave Enough to Be Broken reminds women of the hope that is found in hurt and the beauty that exists in brokenness. It’s an invitation to the brave and hopeful woman who wants to reclaim the hope, wholeness, and freedom waiting for her in the fullness of God’s purpose for her life. The greatest gift I’ve ever given myself was the bravery to press into pain and the freedom to heal from it. And it’s exactly what I want for you.”
God’s light collided with Collier in her darkest night and deepest pain, and he showed her that broken crayons still color—especially in the hands of the Master Artist. In her new book, Brave Enough to Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing, she shares practical steps, personal experiences and biblical wisdom to help women process their brokenness. With humor, candor, and a fresh straightforwardness, she invites readers to be brave: to sit in their pain, find freedom in the hard and experience God’s power, healing and hope to the fullest.
About Toni
Toni is a Hope Coach and the founder of Broken Crayons Still Color, an international women’s ministry that helps women process their brokenness and reclaim hope. She is a popular speaker and consultant who helps organizations with creative marketing, leadership, student ministry, and strategic planning. It’s her passion to show women that they can be both broken and beautiful as they work out their healing at the feet of Jesus. Toni also teaches regularly at Story Church Atlanta, founded by her husband, Sam Collier. Toni and Sam live in Atlanta with their daughter, Dylan, and new baby boy, Sam Jr.