Martha to the Max!: Balanced Living for Perfectionists

by Debi Stack

Book Overview

Like the Martha of Jesus' day, so many women are preoccupied with being the perfect hostess, wife, mother, worker that it leaves many of them angry, frenzied, and depressed. In Martha to the Max ,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802453899
• ISBN13: 9780802453891
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Awesome!

This is a truly necessary book for any woman who finds she has perfectionistic actions and attitudes! What a relief and joy to discover that God made me this way - that he has a use for me - and that I can choose to loose the "over the edge" perfectionism and achieve a balance, love myself, my family and those that God has placed in my life! I am so relieved to know that I don't have to do it all and that I can enjoy life. Thanks Debi for the courage to plow through this area and come out victorious!

Perfectionism with humor

I LOVED this book! Debi Stack writes with laugh-out-loud humor with a very compassionate approach to perfectionists. As a life long perfectionist, I felt so much better after reading this book. She is reassuring and non judgemental in discussing and analyzing what perfectionists do and why. She shares from her own experience, as a recovered perfectionist, and also from the experience of other female perfectionists and her humor is enough to make ANY perfectionist lighten up! A very well written analysis of the Martha/Mary styles. Even if you are not a "Christian" this book will delight you and help you to overcome those perfectionist tendencies.

There is hope for Marthas

My mother picked this book out for me. I was shocked, is this how she viewed me...too busy, stressed out, maxed out?! Yes, this book is me to the tee and Debi has a humorous way of dealing with us Marthas. The book showed me how out of balance my life was. It made me stop and think about priorities. I now have permission to relax, let go and live a much more balanced life. If you are at the end of your rope and wondering how you can possibly balance it all...this book is for you! Come sit at the feet of Jesus and learn how to be more like Mary and less like Martha. Thanks Debi

Humorous Help for Maxed Out Women Everywhere

Boy, this woman is inside my head. Look in the dictionary under "Type A Personality," and you'll see my picture -- a stressed-out wife/mom/daughter/employee/volunteer/etc., etc., etc. Thankfully, Debi Stack understands people like me and has provided practical and FUNNY solutions for handling my perfectionistic madness! I really like the way she uses Martha of Bethany ("Lord, make my sister help me with dinner!") to put a non-threatening, spiritual spin on her insights.I guess I should have known this was a great book. It's been endorsed by lots of famous Christian women authors and speakers, like Patsy Clairmont, Annie Chapman, Mary Whelchel and Bunny Wilson. They knew a good thing when they saw it, and you'll know it when you see this book, too!

Encouraged without condemnation

There is a little Martha in all of us. In her book Debi Stack has made me realize that Jesus loved Martha too! He wants us to learn to set the right priorites in our lives and not be MAXED OUT. The book brings issues to light with humor and Debi backs up her thoughts with Scripture. Her thoelogy is sound. Her humor is pure delight! I can not wait to see what Debi will do in her next book. This book brings to light those attributes that the world views as virtues, but in reality keeps us running so hard and so fast that we forget how to slow down, and rest ourselves in the Lord. Do not miss this eye opening, rib tickling look at our Marthaness. You will be so glad that you did.