Brave is the New Beautiful by Lee Wolfe Blum

Our culture 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.

 

 Brave is the New Beautiful is a thought provoking read that challenges the beliefs and assumptions that our culture holds and that many of us unconsciously (or consciously) hold onto. Lee Wolfe Blum does an excellent job weaving her own experiences and those of women she has worked with to demonstrate the dangers and hurt caused by holding to these incorrect views of beauty and where we should find our beauty instead. I like how she uses Scripture to back up her points and how she shows the importance of mentorship and getting help instead of trying to figure out things on your own. Each chapter is easy to read and fairly short, with discussion questions/questions for deeper contemplation at the end of each chapter. I found this book to be convicting and thought provoking, and a reminder that even those who serve in women's ministry and help others have to deal with the same feelings of inadequacy and/or 'ugliness' as the rest of us. I would highly recommend this book, especially for a women's book club this summer. 

I received this book from Litfuse Publicity in exchange for an honest review. See more review at:

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Lee Wolfe Blum is an energetic and passionate speaker who loves to help women find hope in healing from perfectionism and addictions. She works as a mental health practitioner in the field of Eating Disorders and Chemical Dependency. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and three boys.

Find out more about Lee Wolfe at leewolfeblum.com.