When Two Worlds Collide:

Being True to Your Whole Self

 

You are not one person. You are many.

 

The professional you who walks into the boardroom with confidence. The parent you who wipes tears and packs lunches. The spouse you who made vows and means to keep them. The friend you who shows up, listens, and cares. The community you who volunteers, serves, and belongs. And beneath them all, the spiritual you—the one who longs to bring your whole self to God but doesn't know how.

 

For years, you've managed these worlds by keeping them separate. You've learned to code-switch, to perform, to be who each situation demands. But the cost of compartmentalization is catching up with you. The exhaustion is real. The loneliness is deepening. The question haunts you in the quiet moments: Who am I when I stop performing?

 

This book is for the woman who feels torn apart by competing demands. For the one who has lost friends because she dared to become authentic. For the one staying in a difficult marriage, leaving a toxic job, grieving a former self, or standing alone in the aftermath of collision. For the single woman, the ministry wife, the working mother, the empty nester, the leader, the one reentering after years away, and the one who stayed when everyone else left.

 

When Two Worlds Collide is not a seven-step program or a formula for getting it right. It is a companion for the journey—an honest, theological, and deeply practical guide to becoming one person in a world that constantly asks you to be many.

 

With wisdom born of her own collision, Lisa M. Lee walks you through:

 

• The Collision: Naming the six versions of yourself and understanding why the walls between them are crumbling

• The Evaluation: Identifying the four kinds of people in your life—true supporters, performative allies, the confused, and those who will walk away

• The Separation: Creating boundaries, discerning non-negotiables, and knowing when to leave—a job, a friendship, a church, even a marriage

• The Rebuilding: Finding your people, building authentic community, and discovering the freedom of operating from Christ consciousness

• The Deepening: Learning to pray honestly, to wield Scripture in the collision, and to recognize the spiritual dimensions of the battle

• The Specifics: Chapters for the single woman, the ministry wife, the working mother, the empty nester, the woman in leadership, the one reentering, and the one who stayed

 

This is not a book about having it all together. It is a book about coming apart—and finding that on the other side of fragmentation, wholeness is waiting.

 

Your people are out there. Your calling is emerging. Your true self is not lost—it has been waiting for you to stop performing long enough to find it.

 

When Two Worlds Collide is an invitation to stop hiding, start becoming, and discover that the God who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it—even when your worlds are crashing together.

 

Because you are not meant to be many people. You are meant to be one—fully yourself, fully alive.