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I'm not one to choose e-books over physical copies, but I didn't want to pass up a free e-book version of Melissa Camara Wilkins' new book Permission Granted for being part of the book's launch team.
The book's subtitle "Be who you were made to be and let go of the rest" totally spoke to me, as I'm sure it probably speaks to most women these days. If you're on social media, you see the glorious lives of your friends. If you're on Pinterest, you spend your time pinning recipes, crafts, outfits, and more that you will probably never make, and then you'll feel bad about yourself for not living a Pinterest perfect life. There are all sorts of expectations put on women, whether you're a working mom, a stay at home mom, single, childless, whatever. But in this book, you can let go of all that.
To be quite honest with you, I feel like reading a physical copy of the book might have had more of an impact on me. So keep that in mind when you're deciding which version you want. Each chapter was pretty short, so will be easy to fit into your busy life, but sometimes I felt like the anecdotes were stretching a bit, and I wondered if maybe this should have just been a big essay instead of a fleshed-out book. Again, maybe if I'd had a physical copy, I would feel differently. I think there's just something more powerful with a book in your hands, dog-earing pages that you want to revisit or even highlighting the sentences you like, if the book actually belongs to you.
But no matter which version of the book you pick, you'll still get a lot of nice takeaways. Each chapter gives you permission to be or do something. For instance, be human, stop, drop the ball, be here now, find your voice, etc. But it all comes back to one thing: accept yourself just as you are. (If you saw my Instagram post about this book, you'll remember that you have to be your own Mr. Darcy: "I like you. Just as you are.")
I, like the author, sometimes think my life is a total mess, while everyone else has their shit together. I, like the author, like to keep busy, but at what expense? I, like the author, believe in God but have a problem with "the church".
If you find yourself comparing what you have to what others have, giving in to the wants and suggestions of others instead of listening to your own voice, and not extending grace to yourself, then you probably want to read this book.
Permission Granted is published by Zondervan and is on bookstore shelves now. I received a free ARC in exchange for a review.
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