Hi, I’m Megan! I’m a military wife, mother of two, and serial learner. In 2016, Hungry for Authenticity started as an outlet to write openly about my eating disorder journey. I struggled with bulimia for about a decade. It has been a long road, but I now have a much healthier relationship with food, exercise, and my body. I wrote the occasional blog post, but I mainly set out to write a book helping women recover from eating disorders. The first draft of my book felt like something was off, but I didn’t exactly know why.

In 2018, I was introduced to Pastor Stephen Armstrong’s Verse by Verse Ministry International. He preached verse-by-verse through God’s Word. It struck a hunger to learn more and change my life to reflect what I was learning. I found the more I consumed, the more I wanted to learn and grow. I’ve been a Christ-follower since second grade. But I never felt an intense desire to pursue Christ with my whole life until that year.

Thus, began my self-directed study of the Bible, theology, and apologetics. I earned a Graduate Certificate in Biblical Studies and a Certificate in Christian Apologetics along the way. I found I love tackling tough topics from a strictly biblical point of view. As I matured in my Christian faith, my writing content evolved. I scrapped the original draft of my eating disorder book, which was full of self-help, superficial, unbiblical nonsense. Then, I tackled it from a biblical perspective.

In 2020, I self-published the eating disorder book. Then COVID hit, and I used my free time to write a resource about infertility. My husband and I had to navigate our way through the infertility process. It was tricky, so I wanted to create a resource to help other couples. We ended up growing our family through embryo adoption. I discuss IUI, IVF, and embryo adoption from a biblical worldview in the book. I self-published this book later that year.

In 2021, I submitted my book proposals to small Christian publishing companies to see if they could get picked up for traditional publishing. Wipf and Stock Publishers accepted my submissions, and I signed a contract. I took my self-published books offline and published the official copies in 2022!

In the end, my content is simply me plugging away at my sanctification. It’s a way that I have matured in my understanding of theology and gained confidence in expressing my faith. I study and pray my way through one tough topic at a time, then I write about it. It’s not very popular, and it’s not really what my generation wants to hear, but it’s how I act obediently to God’s call. I have no clue why and what He plans to do with my content, but my job is to be obedient, and He will sort out the rest.

-Megan