Bridget J. Harris is no stranger to life’s unexpected detours. A devoted mother, author, and fierce advocate for faith-centered healing, she is opening up powerful new conversations around mental health, grief, and resilience with her debut memoir, Therapy, Wine & God. With fearless transparency and heart-centered wisdom, Harris invites readers into her world — a world marked by loss, love, infertility, and spiritual growth — and reminds us all that healing isn’t one-size-fits-all.
Born a storyteller and raised by a writer father, Harris has been penning her emotions since childhood. But it wasn’t until life truly tested her — through fertility challenges, grief, and the emotional complexities of becoming a stepmother later in life — that she realized her story was more than just personal. It was purposeful.
“In this season, I felt like I was living a story worth telling,” Harris says. “The fears, the doubts, the wins, the wtf-is-even-happening moments… I knew I wasn’t the only one going through it, even though sometimes I felt like I was. Getting it all out on paper became healing for me. It was like a big exhale.”
That exhale became Therapy, Wine & God — a memoir that dares to affirm that mental health support and spiritual grounding are not at odds. In fact, Harris believes they’re most powerful when they work together.
“Therapy and God are not in competition,” she says. “You can love Jesus and still need a therapist. And I believe God can absolutely work through a trained professional.”
The book is also a raw and intimate exploration of motherhood after 40 — a journey that tested Harris’ physical and emotional resilience.
“Being 40 and trying to conceive for the first time, my relationship with my body went through so many phases,” she shares. “But eventually, I was amazed and in awe. This was the first time I was truly proud of my body — not for how it looked, but for what it survived and accomplished.”
Harris also offers space for nuanced, often unspoken truths — like the realities of navigating blended family life. As an only child raised by married parents, she had no blueprint for stepmotherhood, and the emotional terrain was unfamiliar and overwhelming.
“I struggled. A lot. And I want other women in that space to know that it’s okay if you don’t feel the warm and fuzzy Hallmark vibes right away,” she says. “Blended families are just that… blended. And blending takes time. I had to learn how to give myself grace in that space.”
Grace — for herself, for others, for the process — is a theme woven throughout every page of her memoir. Harris is adamant that healing is not linear and that it’s never too late to start over.
“I’ve had at least four lifetimes already… maybe five, depending on the day,” she laughs. “Healing isn’t this straight path with checkboxes. It’s loops and spirals and backslides and breakthroughs.”
At the center of her transformation was one of the hardest lessons for a planner and perfectionist like herself to learn: surrender.
“People think surrender means giving up. For me, it was the strongest thing I could do. I had to stop forcing the version of life I thought I was supposed to have and trust that what was for me would come. That is not easy, but it’s freeing.”
With Therapy, Wine & God, Bridget J. Harris is sparking a revolution of softness, honesty, and spiritual realignment — especially for Black women who have long been expected to carry the weight of strength in silence.
“I hope it gives women permission to breathe,” she says. “To stop pretending. To talk about grace for ourselves and others. I want it to spark deeper conversations about Black women friendships, faith, motherhood over 40, mental health, and purpose. I want every woman who reads it to feel seen and reminded that she’s not crazy or weak — she’s just human.”
In her words, in her truth, and in her faith, Harris offers a new blueprint for healing — one that honors both therapy and God, wine and wisdom, struggle and surrender.
Therapy, Wine & God is not just a memoir — it’s a mirror for every woman learning to love herself through the unraveling and rebuilding.
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