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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Stay conscious of your reactions towards other people and check yourself when you begin to stray into negative thoughts. Each chapter is named for a different lie us women allegedly tell ourselves, and one chapter is titled "I Can't Tell the Truth. The book never quite explains what it means to “wash your face,” but you get the idea that it’s a euphemism for toughening up, taking a good, hard look in the mirror, and getting out into the world with a kind of clear-eyed resolve.

com, Rachel has become the CEO of her own company and built an online community of women who she motivates through sharing tips for better living.Then I remembered how Rachel went off on the totally exhausted mom for giving her kid candy on a plane.

she tells them to start by drinking more water, and when they’ve mastered that start cutting out foods. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of Hollis until a Facebook friend recently wrote to ask if I had read her book, Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be. It haunts her because she was attacking a girl who shaved her toes and Rachel was doing the same grooming habits, and while the situation is seemingly trivial she realizes she was acting out of a place of insecurity. What about those forging their way through life in male-dominated careers instead of party planning? What if it’s your family who’s standing outside watching every earthly possession you own burning up?

I ran an entire marathon with Philippians 4:13 written on my arm with Sharpie, and I fully believe my Creator is the strength by which I can achieve anything. This is structured by tackling the various “lies” that Hollis believes have held her back — and maybe you too? Life would be too boring or ordinary if you only surrounded yourself with people that are just like you. Anything I’ve ever done, the work I’ve done, has always been like your girlfriend telling you what worked for her.

Not everyone has enough money to let them take the kind of professional and financial risks that might lead to greater happiness, for example. Do your best, please your kids, make your kids happy, and do the small things they want, like doing their hair or singing them a special song before bedtime. to, recently, inspirational montages pieced together from her speaking engagements ( “Do you feel like giving up? There is something to this, and something to hearing it from a woman, at least in a way that trades on a certain kind of privilege. But at night, when no one is looking, you drink, and when it gets really bad, you take a Xanax, too.Hollis thinks the difference between her and the people who didn't make their dreams come true is that she never gave up. The last third of the book she spent lecturing us from high on her mountain of self-importance about everything from antibiotics to eating healthy food to drinking alcohol (tsk tsk) to getting up off our asses to go achieve all our dreams. So, she immersed herself into therapy and began to study scripture where she realized that her achievements weren’t near as important as being a child of God. But to my mind, her core philosophy itself is emblematic of a huge division in American thought that dominates our national discourse: Are people who have problems responsible for fixing them themselves? There was a time when she was more open about some of her family struggles and things that were going on, and I just found that really refreshing.

As a wife, mother, friend, boss, and Christian, she messes up in each area just like every other human being. She essentially tells everyone that she and her roommate survived off of diet pills to the point that they were hallucinating, so they stopped taking them and gained back 40 lbs.I would definitely recommend checking out the reviews from Sadie and Danielle if you want more details about the problematic moments in this book.