About Brianne Sutton

I Know What It’s Like When Unexpected News Changes Everything

Brianne Sutton, Christian author, neuroscientist, and mother of child with special needs

I’m Brianne Sutton, and I understand what happens when your child’s story takes an unexpected turn. As a wife and mother of two, one with unanticipated special needs, I’ve lived through the appointments that change everything, the sleepless nights wondering if God still hears you, and the crushing isolation that comes when most people can’t understand the weight you’re carrying.

I write for parents who are spiritually exhausted from “choosing joy” and “speaking life” when their reality feels more like a siege.

Why I Wrote Siege of the Soul

As I processed our new path, I needed a book that offered both biblical truth and honest companionship without the memoir. Something that didn’t minimize my struggle with toxic positivity or overwhelm me with clinical advice. Someone who understood that faith and doubt often walk hand in hand, especially when you’re parenting a child who struggles in ways others don’t see or understand.

When I couldn’t find that book, I wrote it.

Siege of the Soul emerged from my own journey through grief, grace, and the hard theological questions that surface when life fractures your expectations. It’s for parents who love their children deeply and are also drowning—because both are true. It’s for those tired of Christian platitudes that don’t match their reality, who wonder if they’re allowed to be this exhausted, who need permission to feel everything they’ve been holding back.

Where Faith and Suffering Meet

Growing up in a home where difficult questions were welcomed rather than silenced, I learned early that authentic faith doesn’t shy away from wrestling with God. This foundation served me well through seasons of personal loss and the challenges of raising a child whose journey is unfolding in unexpected ways. I’m not writing from the other side of this—I’m still in it.

My approach to spiritual encouragement comes from both personal necessity and a mentor’s heart. I’ve walked with younger women through their own unexpected journeys while drawing strength from older believers who understood that healing doesn’t mean the questions end—they deepen.

What You’ll Find Here

This isn’t another inspirational story promising breakthrough if you just believe harder. I’m not offering a 5-step plan to fix your child or suggesting that your struggle is simply a lack of faith.

Instead, I offer honest companionship when faith and parenthood collide with suffering.

Through contemplative writing rooted in biblical lament, I invite you to sit with the hard things. To name what you’ve felt but couldn’t say. To discover that grace holds you even when you can’t hold yourself, and that truth can help you grow even when circumstances don’t change.

I’m still discovering what acceptance and hope look like in my own story. The questions haven’t ended. But I’ve learned that we don’t have to walk this road alone, and that faith can endure even when everything we expected has shifted.

You’re Not Alone in This

If you’re carrying impossible weight in the dark—if you’re grieving a future that will never exist, questioning if God hears you anymore, or feeling guilty for not being “enough”—you’re in the right place.

This is a safe space for:

  • Parents whose children face diagnoses, chronic illness, mental health struggles, or behavioral challenges
  • Those isolated by struggles most people don’t understand
  • Anyone spiritually battered by well-meaning advice that doesn’t help
  • Mothers and fathers who feel like everyone else’s kid is fine
  • Caregivers who need language for their wilderness and permission to lament

You’re allowed to be this exhausted. What you’re carrying is heavier than it looks.

Whether your child has received a difficult diagnosis, battles invisible struggles, or simply walks a path you never anticipated—if you’re tired of being told “God only gives special kids to special parents” or “this is your ministry”—you belong here.

Start here: Read some current musings or reach out. I’d love to hear from you.

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