
Books & Resources
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Dr. Peggi Trusty’s books and wellness resources explore the intersection of leadership, emotional resilience, grief care, and sustainable living. Drawing from her work as a chaplain, speaker, and wellness strategist, her writing offers thoughtful guidance for helping professionals, leaders, and caregivers who spend their lives supporting others.
Through practical frameworks, reflective prompts, and compassionate insight, these resources are designed to help readers build lives and leadership practices that are both purposeful and sustainable.
Happy Over Heavy
Happy Over Heavy: The Sacred Rebellion of Defiant Joy is a faith-centered devotional journal inviting readers to reclaim joy even in seasons of burnout, grief, and emotional exhaustion. Through reflection, guided prompts, and spiritual encouragement, Dr. Peggi Trusty helps readers release emotional weight and choose joy as a courageous, daily act of healing and faith.

The Individual Wellness Support Plan
The Individual Wellness Support Plan: Build Lasting Resilience and Achieve Sustainable Balance in Ministry and Life provides a practical framework for personal and professional well-being. Dr. Peggi J. Trusty guides readers through reflective exercises and planning tools that help leaders sustain their calling, strengthen resilience, and cultivate healthier rhythms for life and service.

How to Care for Your Pastor
How to Care for Your Pastor: Understanding, Supporting, and Strengthening Ministry Leaders invites congregations to recognize the emotional and spiritual demands of pastoral leadership. Dr. Peggi J. Trusty offers practical insights to help churches provide meaningful support, foster healthier relationships, and create communities where pastors and leaders can serve faithfully without carrying the weight alone.

Lantern in the Room
Lantern in the Room: A Biblical Grief-Informed Workbook for Nurses, Chaplains, and Healthcare Students equips emerging caregivers with tools to understand grief in clinical settings. Through guided reflection, case scenarios, and faith-informed insight, Dr. Peggi J. Trusty helps students develop compassionate presence, emotional awareness, and practical skills for supporting patients and families during loss.
Waiting For the Doctor
Waiting rooms can feel overwhelming for children. In Waiting for the Doctor, chaplain and wellness educator Dr. Peggi Trusty offers a gentle story and coloring activities that help children name their feelings, build courage, and find comfort during medical visits while giving caregivers simple tools to support them.

Exhale
Exhale™: A 21-Day Reset for Educators invites educators to pause, reflect, and reconnect with themselves amid the demands of the classroom. Dr. Peggi J. Trusty offers simple, intentional practices that restore energy, reinforce boundaries, and cultivate sustainable rhythms, empowering educators to show up with clarity, resilience, and renewed purpose.

The Soul Path
The Soul Path by Dr. Peggi Trusty invites caregivers, leaders, and helpers to slow down and nurture their own souls. This reflective IWSP companion blends poetic reflections, journaling prompts, affirmations, and simple practices—creating sacred space for renewal, emotional awareness, and sustainable self-care for those who spend their lives caring for others.

Leading While Feeling
Leading While Feeling: The Emotional Response Continuum equips leaders with a practical framework for navigating emotions in high-pressure environments. Dr. Peggi J. Trusty shows how emotional awareness strengthens resilience, compassion, and decision-making, helping leaders remain grounded, present, and effective while guiding others through uncertainty, stress, and real-world challenges.

Overflow
Overflow: Living Between Abundance and Exhaustion is a 50-day devotional for clergy and ministry leaders navigating the tension between calling and capacity. Through reflection, spiritual insight, and practical encouragement, Dr. Peggi Trusty helps readers rediscover sustainable rhythms, faithful service, and renewed strength while leading others without losing themselves.

Wellness Starts Here Guided Journal
Wellness Starts Here: Your Plan, Your Path, Your Purpose is a guided IWSP journal designed to help readers build intentional rhythms of personal well-being. Through reflection, structured planning, and daily prompts, Dr. Peggi J. Trusty helps individuals clarify priorities, strengthen resilience, and develop sustainable habits for living with purpose and balance.

Tucker's Wobbly Day
Tucker’s Wobbly Day: Small Tools for Big Feelings is a gentle children’s story that helps young readers understand and manage big emotions. Through Tucker’s experience, Dr. Peggi J. Trusty introduces simple wellness tools that encourage emotional awareness, self-regulation, and resilience in ways children can easily understand and practice.

The IWSP for Educators
IWSP: The Individual Wellness Support Plan for Educators provides a practical framework to help educators manage stress, prevent burnout, and sustain their calling. Dr. Peggi J. Trusty guides readers through reflective exercises and structured planning tools that support emotional resilience, healthier boundaries, and long-term personal and professional wellness.

Holding What's Heavy
Holding What’s Heavy™: A Toolkit for Strengthening Healthcare Teams equips caregivers with practical tools to navigate the emotional weight of patient care. Dr. Peggi J. Trusty offers strategies that foster resilience, peer support, and compassionate teamwork, helping healthcare professionals sustain their well-being while continuing to provide meaningful, life-giving care.

The Healing Arc
The Healing Arc™ by Dr. Peggi Trusty offers a compassionate, structured pathway through grief—honoring loss while gently guiding individuals toward restoration and meaning. Designed for caregivers, leaders, and anyone navigating life after loss, this framework acknowledges that grief does not simply disappear; instead, life grows around it. Through thoughtful reflection, emotional awareness, and practical integration, the Healing Arc™ supports individuals in moving from survival to reconnection, rebuilding, and ultimately, a life that can hold both sorrow and hope.


