As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward. Break: You do not have to change your value system, the point is to avoid living life surrounded by people who look and think like you. By telling stories about her life, she explains how you can live the life you were meant to and provides tips at the end of each chapter to help you get there. I find that Hollis has bought into five common lies that seem to be the starting point for all her advice. Instead, begin thinking about the presence of the little things you have and stop focusing on the absence of the things you haven’t done.

If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis.Hollis is herself the daughter and granddaughter of Holy Rollers whose family migrated from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas to end up in Weedpatch. It is impossible to read the book and not notice Hollis’s frequent use of African American Vernacular English, beginning with the title. Stop thinking of the ‘what ifs’ and believing that you could be happier if you had a different house, car, or job. Rachel wants you to know that you do not have to settle, you don’t have to continue thinking that you aren’t good enough, instead, you can accomplish your goals and follow your dreams.

Don’t marry the guy who you “give your virginity to because you don’t know how else to keep him interested.I could be more proactive towards maintaining relationships and planning my future, and the author does address these topics pretty well. Measuring her success, achievements, and failures to others skewed her idea of what her life should look like. 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? Had Rachel never stepped outside of the bubble in which she grew up, she would’ve missed out on important experiences and never learned to embrace the differences everyone has to offer. Some parts of this book spoke to me (yes, I can be better at showing up for myself), and others made me want to throw the book across the room and scream.

Behind the scenes is an incredible, loving friend and sister who takes care of my kiddos when work or travel takes me away from them. 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. Laced with humor, relateable stories, and things that will actually resonate and help most of us, I recommend this book to all women. With unflinching faith and tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.Remember that achieving your dreams is a matter of life and death because you can choose to either actually live out your dreams or choose to not exist and die before you are dead. Hollis’s vow of authenticity doesn’t seem to extend very far into difficult political conversations, which isn’t surprising for someone with a popular lifestyle brand to maintain. Her brand — which is rooted in her belief that only you are responsible for your happiness — has been panned as the embodiment of “toxic positivity” and startlingly tone-deaf. But she was turned off by what she saw as Hollis’s constant push for bigger and more expensive things.