Resilient By Design is a faith-centered memoir about survival, healing, and personal transformation. In this book, Stazi Melissa Simmons-Gomez shares her journey through childhood trauma, abuse, abandonment, homelessness, and broken relationships—and how God sustained her through it all.

This memoir confronts generational cycles, narcissistic abuse, and internalized self-doubt while emphasizing the importance of prayer, discernment, boundaries, and identity in Christ. Each chapter reflects a season of growth, revealing how pain can become purpose when faced with truth, faith, and self-awareness.

Resilient By Design is not about perfection—it is about perseverance. It is a testimony that resilience is intentional, healing is possible, and God does not waste suffering.

This book is for survivors, cycle-breakers, and believers who are learning to rise without losing their faith, voice, or identity.

You were not broken—you were being built.