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Brave Is the New Beautiful: Finding the Courage to Be the Real You
Brave Is the New Beautiful: Finding the Courage to Be the Real You
Brave Is the New Beautiful: Finding the Courage to Be the Real You
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Brave Is the New Beautiful: Finding the Courage to Be the Real You

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In a culture that bombards women with "thinspiration" messages and pressure to "do it all" while wearing the mask of perfection, women are left feeling alone and overwhelmed. How can they stop comparing themselves to others? How can they live out who they really are?

Lee Wolfe Blum offers stories from everyday women who have answered these questions with their lives—and found true beauty in the process. In Brave Is the New Beautiful, Blum weaves reflections from her own journey with inspirational stories from everyday women who chose to take off their masks and live authentically. Through call-to-action questions and ideas, she encourages readers to be brave enough to be who they really are and the beloved that God knows they are.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDavid C Cook
Release dateMar 1, 2017
ISBN9781434710383
Brave Is the New Beautiful: Finding the Courage to Be the Real You
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Lee Wolfe Blum

Lee Wolfe Blum is a health educator at the Melrose Institute for Eating Disorders in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She runs recovery workshops as well as a monthly intensive family program at the Institute.

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    Generally I avoid Christian self-help books, especially if they're written for and by women. Because I'm judgmental and sometimes I can't take much of the sexist, hippie dippy fake empowerment. But... every once in a while a great book comes along that makes me forget about all the self righteous mumbo jumbo I've read and makes me believe that books in this "genre" aren't all bad. This is one of those books. It was an incredibly quick and empowering read and it was never over the top. Blum did a wonderful job relating to readers that bravery comes in all forms and it's not just the public heroics that matter. Sometimes getting out of bed is brave. She shares her stories and stories from countless other women, some of which are truly heartbreaking. I teared up more than once reading this, especially the last few chapters. At the end of each chapter there are some reflection chapters which could be done as a self reflection or in a group. Honestly, it wouldn't make a horrible book club selection. I was pretty impressed with this, I'll actually keep it and re-read it. It makes you think of the world a little bit differently and reflect on yourself in a more positive light.I received this book for free from Litfuse in return for my honest, unbiased opinion.

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