Finding Yourself Again: One Small Step at a Time

by Mark Thiessen

Sometimes life changes so much that you can lose sight of who you are along the way.

Finding Yourself Again — One Small Step at a Time is a gentle, faith-centered workbook created to help you slow down, reflect, and reconnect with the person you are becoming.

Through thoughtful writing prompts, encouraging reflections, and Scripture, you'll have space to explore what matters to you, rediscover strengths you still carry, let go of some of what has been weighing you down, and think about what you'd like more of in the days ahead.

Inside, you'll gently

• Where you are right now
• Pieces of yourself you may have forgotten
• What matters most to you
• Strengths you still carry
• What you may be ready to let go of
• The person you're becoming
• One small step you can take next

You don't need to have everything figured out. You don't need to become who you used to be.

You can begin right where you are — one small step at a time.

A peaceful companion for quiet reflection, prayer, journaling, and seasons of personal change.

28 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2026

About the author

A National Geographic staff photographer since 1990, Mark Thiessen has published numerous feature stories and covers for National Geographic magazine and other Society publications on subjects ranging from Peruvian mummies to Egyptian archaeologists to Russian smokejumpers.

He recently documented film director and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron's dive to the ocean's deepest location at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Mark's photographs for the July 2008 National Geographic cover story “Under Fire: Why the West Is Burning” earned first-place recognition by Pictures of the Year International. Mark also directs the National Geographic photo studio, and was featured in Out There, a series aired on the National Geographic Channel.

In 1996, Thiessen began a personal photography project on wildland firefighters that took him to the front lines of wildfires every summer. To better understand the world of this little known subculture, he became a certified wildland firefighter. An award-winning online piece, FireCall, features Thiessen's photographs and interviews with a veteran wildland firefighter.