Coming Fall 2026
This Isn't Random: The Patterns Exhausting You Have a Root - and You Can Finally Find It
A new book by Dr. Iolanda Johnson - DrJ, the Root Cause Excavator - for the high-functioning woman who is accomplished, intelligent, and capable, yet keeps finding herself burned out, overwhelmed, and repeating patterns she cannot seem to break.
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What you'll discover
You are not broken. You are patterned. The perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, and overwhelm are not character flaws - they are learned responses with identifiable origins.
Trying harder, planning better, and summoning more willpower will never produce lasting change, because effort alone cannot reach the root.
This Isn't Random takes you beneath the behavior to the 'why beneath the why' - tracing how survival strategies, childhood experiences, relationships, and fear continue shaping your adult life long after they are needed.
Through personal stories and DrJ's root-cause approach, you will learn to stop judging the patterns that once protected you, understand where they began, and consciously choose what comes next.
This book is not about fixing what is wrong with you. It is about uncovering where you have been - so you can finally choose where you go.
About the Author
Iolanda Johnson
Dr. Iolanda Johnson, MBA, TH.D., affectionately known as DrJ, is a transformational coach, educator, former engineering leader, and self-described “Root Cause Excavator.” With a unique ability to see beneath behaviors and circumstances to the patterns driving them, she helps women uncover the hidden roots of overwhelm, burnout, self-sabotage, and feeling stuck. Drawing from decades of leadership, personal transformation, and her work helping others identify the “why beneath the why,” DrJ teaches that lasting change doesn’t begin with fixing what’s wrong—it begins with understanding what happened. Her work challenges women to stop judging the patterns that once protected them, uncover where those patterns began, and intentionally choose what comes next.
Launching Fall 2026