June 6, 2025
Destination Worthy:
Experience Transformative Healing Through Love and Grace
Rachell Macom
Unleash Your Story™ Publishing (2025)
ISBN: 979-8991696975
New Book Shares How to Believe in Your Self-Worth
In Destination Worthy: Experience Transformative Healing Through Love and Grace, Rachell Macom shares her inspiring story of how she grew in her relationship with God and learned to overcome her childhood feelings of not being wanted or loved until she finally came to believe she was worthy.
The book begins with an exciting message: “Your 41 Is Coming!” I had never heard that expression before, but Rachel explains how in the Bible the number forty is significant. During the flood, it rained forty days and forty nights. On day forty-one, the rain stopped. Moses led the Israelites for forty years. In year forty-one, they entered the Promised Land. Numerous other examples exist. The point is we can all achieve our forty-one, and this book details how. In fact, Rachell was forty-one when she finally reached her destination: Worthy. It was then that she found her true identity in Jesus.
Rachell explains that while she had always identified as a Christian, she did not always live like one. It usually took a tragedy, like when she nearly died from COVID-19, to get her back on the path she had strayed from. That situation isn’t uncommon. Rachell shares the statistic that 70 percent of Americans claim to be Christians, but only 9 percent truly follow Jesus. But God is always ready to forgive and call us to Him. She believes herself to be living proof of God’s unwavering grace.
Rachell’s journey to worthiness had obstacles from the moment of her conception. She states:
“I was born from sin. A mistake. Unwanted. It may sound dramatic, but it ’s true. My mother had an affair with a married man, and I was the consequence.” Rachell’s mother’s husband left her after he realized Rachell was not his child. Fortunately, her mom remarried to “Disco Donnie,” who turned out to be a wonderful father to Rachell and even adopted her, but when she learned he wasn’t her real father, she always felt less than. She describes her thoughts at the time:
“A Rutgers University study in child development reveals that children as young as three can grapple with feelings of shame and guilt. Often stemming from trauma or neglect, these feelings can shadow a child into adulthood, planting a belief of being ‘unworthy’ or ‘bad.’ Once embedded, the Devil exploits these feelings at every opportunity. This was my reality. I began to wear ‘unworthy’ as my favorite shirt, while ‘unloved’ became my best dress. I carried these labels well into my forties! The wild part? I hadn’t done anything wrong—I was simply born into a family I wasn’t biologically related to, at least not entirely.”
Rachell shares how she overcame some of this pain as an adult by learning to pray. She believes prayer is like a muscle—the more you pray, the stronger your prayer becomes. She also shares other ways she learned to combat the Enemy’s lies about her lack of worthiness.
A lot of Rachell’s pain came from her mother’s indifference to her. Eventually, her mother would abandon the family, leaving Rachell with her stepfather. Finally, Rachell healed from her mother’s behavior when a therapist told her that her mother lacked the capacity to love others due to her trauma and past hurt. This insight freed Rachell from her pain as an adult.
As Rachell grew up, and especially in adulthood, she came to grow closer and closer to God. She honors her stepfather because he taught her to love like Jesus, with no boundaries or conditions. Eventually, she learned to develop a real relationship with Jesus, including becoming a prayer warrior. She even offers a series of prayers people can use for different occasions to help them learn to pray.
Rachell’s lack of confidence in her own self-worth would continually be tested, however, before her forty-one came. She endured an abusive marriage before finding her current loving husband. She endured despair to the point of attempting suicide. She dealt with workaholism and high-functioning anxiety, not allowing herself downtime so the voices saying she wasn’t worthy couldn’t gain control. She even dealt with body dysmorphia, resulting in breast augmentation.
And Rachell experienced her share of tragedy, dysfunction, and grief, but through it all, she also learned to look at her journey from a “heavenly perspective,” one where she noticed the moments when God was there, guiding, rescuing, and extending grace. She encourages the reader to develop a similar perspective, which will allow them to reconceive their past and provide hope for their future.
When we view our life from a heavenly perspective, we can focus on God’s truths rather than the Enemy’s lies. Rachell provides an extensive list of such truths, a short list of which includes “I am a daughter of the Most High King. I am a child of God. I am loved. I am strong. I am enough. I am holy.”
Perhaps most importantly, she has learned from experience that, “God is who He says He is. Even in the direst situation, He is always good. Every time. No matter what. Friends, we must remain steadfast in this belief. We must place all our faith and trust in Him. Prayer is the key to everything.”
You’ll have to read Destination Worthy to hear all of Rachell’s story, but in the end, she learned to believe she was worthy—so worthy that she realized God often chooses those who feel they are unqualified or undeserving to do His work. God chose Moses to go to Pharaoh and request the Israelites be freed, even though Moses tried to argue he was a poor speaker. Similarly, Rachell, who long believed in her unworthiness, feels God chose her to write this book to help others. If you are struggling with self-worth issues, Destination Worthy will help you acquire the heavenly perspective you need to heal from your past and move toward your new destination.
For more information about Rachell Macom and Destination Worthy, visit www.DestinationWorthy.com.
— Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and Award-Winning Author of The Mysteries of Marquette
