What if the very thing that tried to break you was the place where God was producing oil?

Life has a way of pressing us—through loss, rejection, disappointment, broken relationships, and seasons that leave us questioning our worth and purpose. In those moments, it can feel as though the crushing will never end.

But what if the press was never meant to destroy you?

In The Press: Finding Purpose in the Crushing, Becca Salau invites readers into a deeply honest and transformative journey of healing, identity, and restoration. Through personal reflection, biblical insight, and powerful spiritual truths, this book reveals how God often uses the most painful seasons of our lives to produce something sacred within us.

Just as olives must be pressed to release oil, many of the most beautiful purposes in our lives are revealed through the very places that once felt like breaking.

Inside this book you will discover:

• How God meets us in the hidden places of pain and restores what was lost

• The stories of overlooked women in Scripture whose lives reveal powerful lessons of endurance and redemption

• How seasons of fragmentation can become the beginning of wholeness

• Reflective questions and spiritual insights that help you process your own journey of healing

• The truth that your pressing season is not the end of your story

This is more than a book—it is an invitation to rediscover your identity, reclaim your voice, and recognise the oil God has been producing in your life all along.

If you have ever felt broken, forgotten, or uncertain about your purpose, The Press will remind you that God wastes nothing. Even the crushing seasons are working together for your restoration.

The press did not destroy you.

It produced oil.

Rebecca Salau