Presale Campaign for Years in the Making

My name is Rachelle Luna and I am the author of Years in the Making: Finding True Peace and Joy Through Authenticity

I wrote this book because…

1. I Was Living a Lie

On paper, my life looked perfect: a loving family, a great career, all the boxes checked. But inside, I was falling apart. I was moving through life on autopilot, disconnected from who I really was. I know I’m not the only one who has lived this way.

2. I Don’t Want You to Wait for a Crisis

It took losing someone I loved to cancer to realize I wasn’t truly living. I was just surviving. I don’t want you to wait for tragedy or crisis to happen to wake you up. This book is for anyone who’s ready to start living with honesty, clarity, and intention.

3. Everything We’re Taught About Happiness Is Wrong

We’re taught to avoid pain, stay positive, and push the hard things aside. But real peace  contentment doesn’t come from running away from our darkness. It comes from turning toward it, toward the pain, toward the fear. And when you finally face what you’ve been avoiding, you discover that the joy you’ve been chasing is waiting on the other side.

About My Book

Years in the Making is about…

letting go of the exhausting act of pretending you’re okay while quietly falling apart. It shows the truth that peace and joy  fullness and freedom don’t come from avoiding fear. They come from turning toward it. And that starts with being honest with ourselves about what we’re actually avoiding. 

Part memoir and part guide, this book offers personal stories and evidence-based tools to help readers live with more authenticity, build real resilience, and find the peace and joy  centeredness and clarity that comes when we stop running and start living with intention.

The Benefits of Preordering

I am offering some exclusive rewards for people who preorder my book:

• All book purchases include a signed paperback and a handwritten thank-you note.
• All purchases include tickets to my book launch event.
• Your name will appear in the Acknowledgments section of my book.
• You’ll join my Author Community and get sneak peeks into the publishing process.
• Early access to the Introduction and excerpts, to review and give me early feedback.
• You will have the opportunity to be involved in finalizing my cover and title.

What You’ll Learn

My hope is that, in reading this book, you will discover that the -peace and joy calm and clarity you’re seeking are possible. Not by avoiding what’s hard, but by turning toward it with courage and intention.

In this book, you’ll learn:

• How to recognize when you’re hiding from yourself and what to do about it. You’ll learn to identify avoidance patterns and understand the childhood survival strategies that may still be running your life today.

• . You’ll gain practical, evidence-based strategies like emotional labeling, mindfulness, systematic desensitization, and the mind-body-soul resilience practices that help you sit with discomfort without being overwhelmed.

• Why authenticity (being honest about your fears) is the foundation for real change. You’ll discover that taking accountability for what you’re avoiding is what allows you to start living with more intention and creating a life that feels genuinely peaceful and joyful. grounded and fulfilling.

• How to build resilience by turning toward challenges instead of away from them. You’ll practice building a pattern of small wins that prove to yourself you can survive and thrive, developing courage through action rather than waiting to feel ready.

• Practical strategies for living with intention and finding genuine peace. You’ll learn how to set boundaries that protect your wellbeing, align your choices with your values, extend grace to yourself and others, and redefine what success and happiness mean on your own terms.

Who Is This Book For?

You will love this book if you are:

• The High Achiever Living Someone Else’s Life. You’ve checked all the boxes of conventional success but feel empty inside.

• The Person Carrying Inherited Pain. You notice familiar wounds showing up in your own patterns and reactions.

• The Griever Stuck in Avoidance. You’re navigating loss while learning that moving toward pain deepens your capacity for meaning.

• The Helper Who’s Lost Themselves. You’re so busy caring for others that you’ve forgotten who you are beneath all that service.

• The Community Leader Seeking Authentic Impact. You want to guide others but wonder if you have the right when you haven’t figured everything out yourself.

• The Person Who Feels “Not Enough”. You carry a persistent inner voice telling you you’re not smart enough, not worthy, not deserving.

• The Person Bearing Hidden Pain. You’ve navigated a world that often overlooks or misunderstands you, bearing the quiet burden of belonging nowhere completely.

Years in the Making: Finding True Peace and Joy Through Authenticity is a nonfiction book that bridges personal transformation and scientific research, showing readers how facing challenges, not avoiding them, creates the foundation for authentic living and lasting fulfillment.

About the Publishing Process

My publisher, Manuscripts, gave me a publishing team to help me produce and launch my book.

I am working with:

• A revisions editor, copy editor, and proofreader this fall to further hone my book (when you preorder a book, you’ll get early excerpts and access to earlier versions of my manuscript)
• A marketing specialist to coach and support me in marketing efforts, and help me reach new audiences
• A cover artist and layout editor will be designing my book. (The mockups you see currently are a placeholder)

Though I won’t have an exact publishing date until I get closer, I’m scheduled to publish by Summer 2026.

Other Ways to Support Me

Some people just can’t contribute, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help:

• Please share my presale campaign on Facebook, X, and LinkedIn with your friends, family, and network. Please use #Hashtag

#YearsInTheMakingBook #NewBookAlert #AuthorLife #AmWriting #BookCommunity #AuthorsofInstagram and tag me so we can help amplify your efforts.

Please recommend my book to five friends, family members, or co-workers who you think would enjoy it via text or direct message on social media.

Thank you so much for all of your support!
Rachelle

About the Author

Rachelle Luna spent years building what looked like the perfect life: a loving family, a successful career rising to DoD Contracting Officer and eventually leading global strategic sourcing efforts for a Fortune 500 company. On paper, everything was working. Inside, she was falling apart.

After surviving a cancer scare, Rachelle watched a close friend lose their battle to the disease. Their death led her to confront a devastating truth: she was moving through life, but not truly living it.

One night, she collapsed to her knees, successful on the outside but shattered on the inside. She realized she had spent years running from trauma, pain, and inherited wounds that left her disconnected from who she really was.

Years in the Making: Finding True Peace and Joy Through Authenticity chronicles what happened when Rachelle finally stopped running and turned toward the pain she’d been avoiding. Not with false optimism or quick fixes, but with raw courage and uncomfortable truth. 

Through personal narrative, psychological research, and interviews with others who’ve made similar journeys, she shares the practical tools that helped her heal, and reveals that the peace she’d been chasing was waiting on the other side of everything she’d been avoiding.

Today, Rachelle leads in the corporate world, runs RGL Strategies Business Consulting, creates Filipino language-learning children’s books through Sari Sari Nite, and lives with intention in Las Vegas. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Acquisition and Contract Management.

Through her work, she helps others discover that the peace they’re seeking isn’t found by running from pain… It’s found by courageously moving through it.

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