Garden With Thorns

As a wife and mother of three beautiful children, Lesley Langwan knows firsthand what it means to balance the demands of family, faith, and calling. Lesley was born in the Northwest region of Cameroon in the mid-1990s, a time and place marked by both cultural richness and widespread hardship. Raised in a setting where survival often depended on faith, grit, and sheer determination, Lesley's early years were steeped in the realities of poverty, struggle, and painful losses. Yet even then, the seeds of resilience and purpose were being sown deep within her. Today, Lesley is a U.S./Canada-based Christian author, counseling psychologist in training, motivational speaker, and the visionary founder of BEYANA (Be Encouraged You Are Not Alone) — a movement dedicated to uplifting those who have been wounded by life's harshest blows, including divorced individuals, widows, orphans, and anyone feeling abandoned or forgotten. Her work seamlessly blends personal testimony, biblical wisdom, psychological tools, and culturally relevant storytelling to reach hearts across Africa, the U.S., Canada, and beyond. Lesley envisions a world where people no longer suffer in silence, where women lift each other instead of tearing each other down, and where families and communities thrive on truth, love, and compassion. Her work is devoted to making that vision reality, one book, one conversation, and one soul at a time.