Books by David Julian
Health, Faith, and the Work of Rebuilding
Each book below stands complete on its own — a memoir, a guide, a case for clearer thinking. They come out of the same life and the same conviction: that health, faith, and clarity are things you rebuild deliberately, not things that happen to you.
Memoir
Healing Against the Odds
A frank, firsthand account of navigating serious illness, neurological injury, and the long, unglamorous process of trying to rebuild when the body refuses to cooperate. Grounded in faith and lived experience rather than theory, it is a book for anyone who has faced a health crisis and wondered whether genuine recovery is still possible. This is not a quick-fix guide. It is an honest companion for the hard road.
Memoir
Still Walking
A memoir that follows the long middle of serious illness, after the acute crisis has passed but before anything resembling full recovery has arrived. Through the ongoing realities of epilepsy, disability, and neurological hardship, it explores what it actually looks like to keep moving when progress is slow, partial, and mostly invisible to the people around you. A book about persistence, faith, and what it means to still be walking when standing still would be easier.
Guide
You Do You
A direct challenge to the slow erosion of independent thought in a culture that profits from confusion, compliance, and dependence. Practical and pointed, it is a guide to reclaiming your own judgment, rebuilding clarity about what you actually believe, and making decisions from conviction rather than pressure. For anyone who has felt, quietly, that they have been thinking other people’s thoughts for too long.
Guide
Navigating Cancer: Between Hope and Hype
A practical guide for patients, caregivers, family members, and health advocates seeking clarity, balanced information, and thoughtful guidance throughout the cancer journey. It helps readers move beyond fear, misinformation, miracle-cure claims, and information overload by providing a thoughtful framework for understanding conventional treatment, complementary approaches, nutrition, lifestyle, and informed patient advocacy.
Companion Study Guide
Companion Study Guide — Facilitator Edition
A seven-week framework for walking through Not from the Other Side together, built for small groups, church studies, and support groups carrying difficult seasons side by side. Each week centers on real teaching, discussion questions built for a room, and practical notes for whoever’s hosting — including how to hold space when someone discloses something that calls for real support, not just an answer from the group.
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Recurring Themes
Healing
Rebuilding the body, mind, and spirit through patience, discipline, and grounded choices.
Resilience
Learning how to keep going when progress is slow, invisible, or misunderstood.
Faith
Holding onto God, meaning, and perspective when life becomes uncertain or painful.
Discernment
Separating truth from hype, wisdom from noise, and conviction from manipulation.
Why I Write These Books
These books grew out of lived experience, not theory. They were shaped through neurological hardship, epilepsy, setbacks, disability, uncertainty, long seasons of searching for answers, and the difficult process of learning how to keep going after life changes.
This is the heart of NVA: clarity over confusion, wisdom over hype, endurance over defeat, and rebuilding one grounded step at a time.
Anchor Lines
“Clarity over confusion.”
“Strength is often built quietly over time.”
“You can survive something and still need to rebuild afterward.”
About David Julian
David Julian is a writer, Natural Vitality Advocate, and student of resilience. After years of navigating neurological hardship and rebuilding his life from the ground up, he now creates resources to help others find clarity, endurance, and direction in their own healing journeys.
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Disclaimer
Book descriptions on this page are for informational and promotional purposes. Views expressed throughout these books reflect the author’s personal experiences, perspectives, research, and opinions and are not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice.