THAt’s not my name

How to rebel against the words that are ruining your life

That’s Not My Name by Jeremy Williamson invites readers to consider the false names spoken over them in childhood, exploring how those names come to shape their lives, and how through honesty, grief, and slow, holy risk, they can come home to the name God spoke over them before the foundation of the world.

Release Date: November 5, 2026

  • We all answer to names we were never meant to carry. They were spoken over us in childhood by the wounded people we trusted. We’ve been surviving them for decades without even knowing what they are. That's Not My Name walks into that story with accessible language, candor, and a refusal to rush the reader toward relief.

  • Jeremy helps us find words for our story, sits with us in the wound the way real healing requires, and only then walks us home — from the prison of our false name, through grief in the wilderness, to a seat at the Father's table that has always been ours to inhabit. Built on story rather than technique, Jeremy is honest about how slowly the work actually goes, and designed the reader-journey to be undertaken with trusted brothers or a counselor, not just a book one reads.

    • How words and wounds shape identity

    • Why the voices of parents and authority figures carry such enormous weight

    • The difference between believing a lie and living under a false name

    • Why shame causes us to hide, perform, control, and withdraw

    • How unresolved wounds travel through generations

    • Why self-improvement alone often fails to create lasting freedom

    • How false names affect marriage, friendship, fatherhood, and faith

    • What it means to rebel against a name that was never yours

    • How to begin recognizing the voice that named you first

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"That's Not My Name is a beautifully written, deeply healing invitation to shed the false identities we've inherited and embrace the truest story of who we are.” 

-DR. ANDREW J. BAUMAN
Author Of SAFE CHURCH & STUMBLING TOWARDS WHOLENESS

"Underneath surface-level struggles, there is always a deeper story. That's Not My Name demonstrates how to understand and process your story with courageous honesty, kindness, and skill. Jeremy Williamson is a trustworthy guide. The stories he tells in this book are both heart-rending and heart-mending. If you take the redemptive risk to dive in, you will release old roles that no longer serve you and emerge with an empowering sense of who you truly are."

-Drew Boa (MA, PSAP, BSP) founder of Husband Material Ministries, 
author of Outgrow Porn and Redeemed Sexuality

A JOURNEY TOWARDS HOME

  • Words Shape Worlds

    Words do more than describe a person. They confer identity, create internal realities, and shape behavior, relationships, and entire lives.

  • Beloved Before Broken

    The deepest truth about a person existed before injury, shame, usefulness achievement, or failure. Wounding can obscure identity, but it cannot originate it.

  • The Cost of Survival

    Pleasing, performing, disappearing, controlling, numbing, and armoring were often intelligent adaptations. The tragedy comes when they continue governing adult life.

  • Grief Before Relief

    Healing does not rush toward explanation or forgiveness. Pain must be witnessed, named, and grieved in the presence of love.

  • Holy Rebellion

    Freedom begins when a person withdraws allegiance from the voice that falsely named them. Rebellion becomes a lifelong practice of refusing the old name.

  • Remember your NAME

    The call is not to invent a better identity; it is a return to the person God knew, loved, and named before the world wounded them.

  • Coming Home

    Home is not self-improvement. It is the return of a son or daughter to the identity and belonging that were always theirs.

About The Author

Meet JEREMY WILLIAMSON

Jeremy Williamson has spent more than twenty-five years walking with men and women through the hardest and most honest parts of their stories. As a Storywork Coach at ReStory Counseling and the Director of Church Partnerships at Restoration Project, his work has brought him into conversations around identity, shame, childhood wounds, spiritual formation, and the generational impact of unresolved pain.

Jeremy is a storyteller and communicator willing to go into uncomfortable places with honesty and hope, grounded in the belief that the names we've carried do not have to define the lives we live.

  • “THE NAMING DIDN'T DESCRIBE THE BOY. THE NAMING CHANGED THE BOY.”

    —That’s Not My Name, Chapter 5

  • "The tragedy is not that we adapted. The tragedy is that we never learned how to stop adapting."

    —That’s Not My Name, Chapter 5

  • "Because when you no longer trust love, you will always move toward control. When you no longer trust delight, you will always move toward performance. When you no longer trust that God is good, you will start reading rejection everywhere, and any moment of silence is abandonment."

    -That’s Not My Name, Chapter 5

  • "Freedom begins as a moment of declaration, and then continues as a thousand small refusals to keep answering to the false name that once imprisoned you".

    -That’s Not My Name, Chapter 11

  • "This is not a name to force, manufacture, or solve. It is a name to remember."

    -That’s Not My Name, Chapter 11

  • "You are Beloved, fully and finally, with nothing to earn and nothing to lose."

    -That’s Not My Name, Chapter 15

Your seat at the table was never conditional

The names spoken over you may have shaped your story. They may explain the ways you've hidden, performed, fought, or run. They may have followed you for decades.

But they do not get the final word.

It's time to discover the name beneath the wounds. It's time to come home. It’s time to take your seat at the table.

LAUNCH DATE: NOVEMBER 5, 2026