Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

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Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they’re afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough.

On Sunday, Hollis tried her hand at a response. Characteristically, she laid much of the blame on her “ team,” claiming that they advised her against responding to the furor sooner. She then wrote it was “ludicrous” that people perceived her post the way they did, stressing that she cannot “now, or ever” compare herself to any of the aforementioned women. Unsurprisingly, her defensive tone only exacerbated the mounting outrage, and the post has since been deleted.Rachel gives many more of these "Feeling unhappy? Just stop!" types of platitudes throughout the chapters, and they build up frustratingly. As I read the book I felt I was getting ADVICE (Not being told what to do), by a good friend. And the advice was well taken and accepted. I even began applying some of it. I think the adversity she’s been through gives her a lot of credibility,” said Alex Ethridge, a 27-year-old marketing professional in Missouri. (Hollis had a difficult family upbringing — she calls it “traumatic” — and was just 14 years old when she found her older brother, Ryan, after he had killed himself.) Elissa Johnson, a 35-year-old mom in St. Louis who co-owns a small business with her husband, told me she appreciates Hollis’s tough-love approach: “There’s something refreshing in a post-truth world about rooting out some lies you might be telling yourself … It feels like so many things are out of our control in the world today, but there’s so much within our reach.” Recognizing the lies we've come to accept about ourselves is the key to growing into a better version of ourselves.❞ Multiple people told me to read this book, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I've never heard of Rachel Hollis before or anything about her.

How do you keep taking babies to see parents who aren’t parenting? How do you give up half a Saturday to wait in a McDonald’s playland for addicts who may or may not show up, then hand over an innocent baby and watch them erase whatever progress you’ve made with their daughter? How do you do all of this KNOWING that they’ll be reunited at the end of it all, and there’s nothing you can do about it? If you’re like me, you find a way. But at night, when no one is looking, you drink, and when it gets really bad, you take a Xanax, too. There's even a whole chapter on not judging gays, and how you should even hang out with them!! And people of color, hang out with them too!! I don’t even know how to review this. As a “Christian” book, which it’s marketed as, it’s dangerous. We were not born to live our best lives now and pursue whatever makes us happy. We were put on earth to glorify God. The tenet of our faith is NOT “Love thy neighbor.” Yes, YES we need to love every person as Jesus loved us, but the tenet of our faith is that God sent His son to die for us so that we are saved from our sins. REPENT AND BELIEVE. Flee from sin. Don’t love and accept it. This book absolutely falls under what the Bible warns about in 2 Timothy 4:3. God is only mentioned when it suits Rachel’s narrative, which is about three times. You are in charge of your own life, sister, and there’s not one thing in it that you’re not allowing to be there,” Hollis writes. But Hollis’s glibness makes clear that her “sisters” are only such if they look like her, share her padded bank account (and her priorities), and don’t venture too far into the real and wrenching difficulties of life.She doesn't sugar coat it, she doesn't tell you it's going to be easy nor does she tell you that change will happen overnight. What she does tell you is that YOU ARE WORTH IT. You are worth the fight, the struggle, the battles, and the pain. YOU ARE WORTH the hard work, the tears, the rejection, and the exhaustion. Because, ❝Life isn't meant to be merely survived-it's meant to be lived❞ You must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you are or what’s happening, you will be happy.” Two reads completed, several passages highlighted, and a whole new perspective on life and the pursuit of happiness. :) Rachel's truth is poignant, it is devastating, and it is healing. Her honesty is admirable. And she reminds us that we are the captains of our own ship. What we do and where we go is our choice. It's up to us. Someone else’s opinion of you is none of your business.” Let me say that again for the people in the cheap seats.”

a b c Krug, Nora (2018-11-11). "Rachel Hollis has wooed millions of women with her book. What's her message?". Washington Post . Retrieved 2018-11-29. Her wildly popular career as a motivational speaker and blogging shows the audience that you, too, can grab your own bootstraps and make a success of yourself.Y’all, would you respect her? Would you count on Pam or the friend who keeps blowing you off for stupid reasons? Would you trust them when they committed to something? Would you believe them when they committed to you? No. Thanks, but I’m good. I don’t hustle. I have no desire to create a vision board with my #goals because not all women want to live that way. The day I refer to my friends as my “tribe” is the day I will beg someone to duct tape my mouth shut. I’m not a workaholic. If I believe God is in control, then I don’t need to worry about “taking control of my life.” a b Kopf, Dan (2018-10-26). "Girl, Wash Your Face: The publishing phenomenon of 2018 - Quartzy". Quartzy . Retrieved 2018-11-29. You might remember that name from a scene in The Grapes of Wrath, in which a watchman at the migrant worker camp in Weedpatch tells the Joad family about the “Holy Rollers” — Pentecostal ministers — who had been coming through town. They kept asking for money, so the camp’s Central Committee decided that “‘Any preacher can preach in this camp. Nobody can take up a collection in this camp.’ And it was kinda sad for the old folks, ’cause there hasn’t been a preacher in since.’” It's a bit of a lie that I "read" this book. I had to stop about 3/4 of the way in. I chose this book as a guilty pleasure read, blindly selecting it off a list of recommended books on my library app.