Dr. Sherrá Watkins is a licensed clinician, certified coach, national speaker, and author, and the founder of Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ From her first book, Healing in Review, to The Dear God Collection, she writes at the intersection of faith, healing, and honest reflection — inviting readers into sacred conversation with themselves, with God, and with the women who came before them.
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- Bundle the memoir, journal, and workbook together
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The Dear God Collection: Sacred Conversations.
Three books, releasing together — the memoir, the ninety-day journal, and the workbook. Read one, or let them work on you all at once.
Dear God, It's Me Again
An honest, faith-rooted memoir about surviving the unseen seasons — wrestling with the names we give God, and learning to trust what you cannot yet see.
Who Should Read This Book?
- Women who are competent in public and unraveling in private
- Anyone in a season that has lasted longer than they expected
- Readers whose faith and church experience have parted ways
- Leaders carrying more than anyone around them knows
What You'll Learn
- How to name a season honestly instead of spiritualizing it
- Why survival strategies stop serving you, and how to notice
- What trust looks like before the evidence arrives
- How to stay in relationship with God without pretending
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Dear God, It's Me Again — The Journal
Ninety guided prompts for honest, sacred reflection alongside the memoir — built for people who think best with a pen in hand.
Who Should Read This Book?
- Readers who finished the memoir and want to do the work
- Executive and professional women with no unguarded place to think
- Anyone who journals in bursts and wants a structure that holds
- Small groups, book clubs, and ministry cohorts moving together
What You'll Learn
- A daily practice you can sustain in ten honest minutes
- How to write toward the truth instead of around it
- Language for what you have been carrying without words
- Patterns you only see once ninety days are on the page
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Dear God, I See Myself in Her Too
A thirteen-week womanist devotional journey through the women of scripture — their questions, their silences, and what they still have to say.
Who Should Read This Book?
- Women who were taught scripture but never saw themselves in it
- Readers rebuilding faith on honest terms after harm
- Facilitators leading a women's group, class, or ministry cohort
- Anyone who wants study with substance, not sentiment
What You'll Learn
- How to read the women of scripture as full people, not lessons
- Where your story and theirs actually meet
- A thirteen-week rhythm you can lead others through
- Practices for holding faith and questions at the same time
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What readers find in the Sacred Conversations.
Sacred Honesty
Prayer and reflection that make room for the truth — not performance.
Faith & Restoration
Rebuilding belief after harm, fatigue, or seasons of disconnection.
Identity & Womanhood
Seeing yourself in the women who came before you.
Healing as Practice
Tools you return to and live with — not read once and shelve.
Books, Chapters & Research.
Dr. Watkins' body of work spans memoir, guided workbooks, and co-authored scholarship on well-being, equity, and leadership in higher education. Signed copies of any of her own titles are available through the shop.
Advancing Well-Being and Equity in Higher Education
Chapter 4, co-authored, in Well-Being Leadership in Higher Education: A Guide for Successful Well-Being Programs (NASPA).
Published by NASPA — available through them only.
Healing In Review: College Edition (2nd ed.)
A guided companion for emotional recovery and wellness — for the college years and the leaders they become.
30-Day Gratitude Journal
A thirty-day guided practice for noticing what is already good — short daily prompts that build gratitude into a habit you can keep.
Healing In Color
An Adult Coloring Book with 40 Unique Motivational Quote Designs. A companion to Healing in Review.
Healing in Review
A Guide to Help Readers Reflect on Their Healing Journey Through Counseling or Coaching. The book that started it all.
Dr. Sherrá Watkins helps people heal, lead, and return to themselves.
With more than two decades across mental health, public health, rehabilitation, and substance-use counseling, Dr. Watkins guides individuals and institutions toward wholeness. She is the founder and CEO of Sister W.E.L.L.S.™ and serves as AVP for Student Health & Wellness at the University of Utah, working to transform the systems that keep historically marginalized communities from accessing counseling and care.
She is the author of Healing in Review — her first book — and of The Dear God Collection, and co-author of Healing In Review: College Edition and a NASPA chapter on well-being and equity in higher education. Across memoir, workbooks, and scholarship, she writes work that is personal enough to heal and practical enough to move readers forward.
Author + Expert Voice
- PhD, Rehabilitation Counseling & Administration — East Carolina University
- Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor–Supervisor (LCMHC-S)
- Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS)
- National Speaker & Facilitator
- Founder & CEO, Sister W.E.L.L.S.™
- AVP for Student Health & Wellness, Higher Education
- ECU Leadership Awards — 40 Under 40 (Inaugural Class)
Bring the message to your audience.
Dr. Watkins' author platform translates into powerful speaking experiences for conferences, women's leadership events, wellness retreats, higher education programs, faith-based gatherings, and professional development convenings.
Author Talks
Conversations centered on healing, faith, boundaries, and the lessons behind The Dear God Collection.
Keynotes
High-impact messages for audiences navigating leadership, wellness, transition, burnout, identity, and purpose.
Workshops
Interactive sessions helping participants reflect, release, reframe, and take action toward the next chapter of their lives.
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