NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 2025 – Zondervan Books, the preeminent home for Christian writing, today celebrates surpassing 100,000 copies sold of Relaxed: Walking with the One Who Is Not Worried about a Thing by Megan Fate Marshman since its August 2024 release.
In Relaxed, Fate Marshman offers a call to let go of spiritual performance, reject our cultural tendency to live under pressure, and find freedom to walk with God and toward God, one gentle step at a time. Taking readers word by word through Proverbs 3:5-6, she explores what it means to set aside our addiction to trying to figure everything out and relish a slower, compelling, powerful, and relaxed life with God.
“We’re thrilled that Relaxed has reached this milestone,” said Daniel Marrs, Vice President and Publisher for Zondervan Books. “It’s a wonderful sign that Megan’s heartfelt, biblically rooted voice is connecting with people where they live with her message of setting aside striving, performance, and anxiety and learning instead to rest in God. Megan’s ministry—clear, compassionate, and scripture-saturated—embodies the kind of books we’re proud to publish at Zondervan.”
As an international speaker at churches and conferences, Fate Marshman is a leading voice to this generation. She has devoted her life to loving God and overflowing His transformational love to others. She holds a Doctorate in Ministry and serves as a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, the Director of Women’s Ministries at Hume Christian Camps and Pastor of Women at Arbor Road Church.
“This milestone is a testament to the powerful impact Megan’s work and ministry is continuing to have in readers’ lives,” said Keren Baltzer, Associate Publisher at Zondervan Books. “We’re so honored to partner with her in her mission to spread hope, share truth, and overflow God’s awesome love to others.”
Relaxed is Fate Marshman’s second book with Zondervan, following the release of Meant for Good in 2020. Relaxed received positive endorsements from leaders including Saddleback Church cofounder Kay Warren, speaker, author and theologian Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing, and authors Katherine Wolf and Bob Goff. The book is available wherever books are sold. For more information, visit Zondervan.com.
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