Pen name Anne Jackson Name Anne Miller Genre spirituality | Nationality American Role Author | |
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Books Beating Burnout: A 30 Day Guide to Hope and Health, Mad Church Disease: Healing from Church Burnout Profiles | ||
Occupation Author, Public speaker | ||
Permission to Speak Freely
Anne Marie Miller is an American public speaker and author who writes on topics such as faith, sexuality and psychology. She was previously known as Anne Jackson.
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Biography
Anne Marie Miller was born to a Southern Baptist pastor who mainly taught at smaller, rural churches in West Texas. He resigned from vocational ministry and her family moved to Arlington, TX in 1996. During this time, Miller decided to leave her faith-based upbringing and considered herself agnostic.
Graduating high school as a junior and foregoing a college education, Miller rapidly climbed the career ladder in corporate communication, working at up-and-coming technology and design firms in the Dallas area. However, after several years away from the church and her faith, Miller moved to Kansas City, MO. She began working in communication and business development at not-for-profit organizations in Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. She reclaimed her faith, although she does not state any denominational preference.
At the age of 25, Miller experienced a severe stress-related illness and was hospitalized. After recovering, she conducted surveys of leaders in faith-based and charity work to determine how stress affected people in those vocations. The surveys indicated many people in not-for-profit or faith-based work were suffering from physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ailments, with the results being the basis for her first book, published with Zondervan Publishing House under the name Anne Jackson.
In 2013, Miller married videographer and performer Tim Miller. She is currently studying nursing. She was an author, public speaker, freelance writer, editor and consultant. Since her marriage, she has chosen to change her pen name to match her legal name.
Miller released her book Mad Church Disease - Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic (Zondervan) in February 2009, using her name at the time, Anne Jackson. She contributes to a number of magazines and blogs, and she is a Compassion International advocate. In December 2009, author Seth Godin released an eBook titled What Matters Now in which Anne was one of 72 contributors.Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace, published by Thomas Nelson, in 2010. In 2014, she re-released Mad Church Disease: Healing from Church Burnout and Beating Burnout: A 30 Day Guide to Hope and Health. Her fourth book, Lean on Me: Finding Intentional, Vulnerable and Consistent Community, published October 7, 2014 by Thomas Nelson. Her fifth book, "5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About Their Kids and Sex" released May 17, 2016 with Baker Publishing.
Miller has put down the pen for now, and is focusing on her career in nursing while raising their child.
Charitable Involvement
In February 2008, Miller traveled to Uganda with Compassion International. Upon returning, she set out to pursue a life of simplicity and generosity. She has since traveled to India, the Dominican Republic, Moldova, Russia Zambia, South Africa, Swaziland, the Philippines and Haiti as well as many disenfranchised communities in the United States for journalist ventures regarding poverty and relief work. She was a cyclist on the 2010 Cross Country Cycling Ride:Well Tour in effort to raise funds and awareness for Nashville-based Blood Water Mission, a water and AIDS intervention non-profit.