Beyond the Masquerade: Unveiling the Authentic You

by Julianna Slattery and Juli Slattery

Book Overview

Many Christian women today are wearing masks. From an early age, we are taught that to be valuable we need to do more, to be more. To feel worthy, we learn to hide behind the masks of our... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589973771
• ISBN13: 9781589973770
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Focus on the Family Publishing
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

This one's unique

So many Christian book studies, so many Bible studies!! Of them all, to me, this one has done the most for my relationship with God. Initially, I wanted to quickly identify my mask, fix it and place a check on the complete box. Finding the mask wasn't hard. Fixing it was what I found to be impossible. In this book, Dr. Slattery leads her readers to God's answer for this dilemma.

Learning to be authentic

I have read this book four times and with each reading I am drawn closer to God. Realizing my worth as a child of God is very freeing. And that is what this book encourages. All people wear masks. We learned to wear them from a very young age. For a while they worked quite well but they eventually deprived us of true intamacy with God and with other people. This book is about taking off our masks. The author has a solid knowledge of the Bible as well as a wise grasp of psychology. She offers practical examples to difficult concepts. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any person, male or female. I found it to be challenging and transforming.

Life Changing Read

We all want to know: "Am I special?", Am I a person of value?". No matter what we have or have not accomplished, deep down we all struggle with our self-worth. Dr. Slattery states that "to question self-worth is as human as breathing." This book will show you how we hide behind masks and how we make the mistake of buying into the world's definition of our value. You will learn to free yourself of these masks and find your value in your creator and what the Bible teaches about your self-worth. This book is definitely a must read!

This is a must read!

If you are looking to "go deep" and see what God intends for your value and worth to be based on, this is the book for you. It has been life-changing for me. It is challenging, thought-provoking, inspirational and wonderfully real. We all wear masks to protect ourselves...to hide...but what we don't realize is that it hinders us from having intimacy with God and others. Intimacy and acceptance is what we all so desperately want and need. There is a freedom that comes admitting we are less than perfect and that we need help...God is always there to answer our call.

Changed My Life

What more can I say, it changed my life for the better. You won't be able to read this without making a change yourself too. Masks will come off and the love of God will envelope you for who you are - HIS BELOVED CHILD! Julie (the author) has a shoot from the hip style that is easy to relate to and gets to the nitty gritty of self-esteem issues. If you want a fluffy hug, watch the big purple dinosaur. If you want to find out who gives unconditional love and acceptance for who you are, read Beyond the Masquerade.