Yesterday, BJ Thompson's new book Awaken a Better You: 4 Simple Steps to Create the Life You Want hit bookstore shelves. According to a commercial I keep seeing on YouTube, the most Googled term last year was "can I change", and with the new year having already begun, some of us are probably saying, "Yes, I can change" but wondering how to do it.
You don't have to be a Christian to read this book, although spirituality is one of the four "change areas" discussed in the book. And even if you are a Christian, you may find yourself walking through a spiritual desert, like Thompson did after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. (I really appreciate hearing a Christian call out Donald Trump and his supporters.)
All you have to do is understand who you are and the influences that make you who you are so you can know your value and take charge of your life.
At the end of each chapter, there are a series of questions for you to answer. Some are designed for you to "talk it out" with your friends or whoever you are reading the book with. Others require you to spend five minutes freewriting your thoughts on a particular topic.
This is not a book that will automatically fix you. Instead, it guides you through making a plan and taking the appropriate steps to awaken the change you wish to see in yourself, whether that's to be better emotionally/mentally, spiritually, relationally, or physically, or some combination of the four.
Awaken a Better You is published by WaterBrook and is on bookstore shelves now. I received a free e-ARC.
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