What if some of the weight you’re carrying was never your burden to bear?

You want to love people well. You want to show up, help, make peace, and do the right thing. But somewhere along the way, caring can become carrying, and suddenly you’re responsible not only for your own choices, but for everyone else’s feelings, expectations, reactions, problems, and happiness too.

In Is This Mine to Carry?, Mikella Van Dyke, offers a biblical path out of people-pleasing, over-functioning, and the exhausting need to manage outcomes. Looking to the life and teachings of Jesus and the wisdom of Scripture, she shows that faithfulness doesn’t require controlling how others respond. You can offer love, truth, and peace, and trust God with what happens next.

In this faith-based personal growth book, you’ll discover how to:

• tell the difference between helping someone carry a burden and carrying their responsibilities for them
• set healthy boundaries so you can make decisions without being ruled by guilt, rejection, or disapproval
• care about others’ emotions without making them your responsibility so you can foster healthy relationships
• release what you can’t control while remaining loving, present, and faithful

You were never meant to carry every emotion, solve every problem, or guarantee every outcome. You can love people well, do what God has entrusted to you, and trust Him with the rest.