It was enjoyable! However, I realize I am her Target demographic: a straight, white, middle class, Christian female. My mind struggled between really enjoying the book and the advice, and this on how this book has privileged written all over it.

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis was an alright read. i loved their time transparency and honesty. I love when someone shares their story and keeps it real I do feel like this is best to be gauged towards a younger crowd and or new mothers. Younger crowd meaning 30 something and below in age. I think that age group could benefit. At 41 I’ve heard most of all of it before. No real new ground covered.

“Beating ourselves up about all the things we think we’re doing wrong becomes a litany of white noise.” 🙌🏼 This is one of MANY sections I highlighted while reading Girl, Wash Your Face. I connected with Rachel Hollis on so many levels while reading this. Her words spoke to me and filled me to the brim with encouragement, leaving me fired up for the new year! She is honest, raw, real, and authentic in her pursuit to put women on the path to peace and get off of the comparison wagon. She reveals lies that women often tell themselves and gives practical, tried and true strategies to overcome them and become the woman God intended. I absolutely love her passion and desire to fire women up to be their best selves. This is a book I will come back to again and again in my pursuit to be my best self. For me, Girl Wash Your Face was ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars. Thank you @thomasnelson for the free copy in exchange for my honest review.

I'll be honest - I had never heard of Rachel Hollis before seeing this book on Goodreads, but the cover appealed to me and so did the description - Stop Believing the Lies About Who you Are so you Can Become Who You were Meant to be! Don't we all hear those lies about why we can't/shouldn't/won't be or become who we want? Either from outside sources or from our own discouraging words? The advice from Rachel isn't mindblowing or always that original, but it is refreshing to hear it from someone who seems to have it all together. To know that someone who appears on the outside has the same doubts about her abilities that we all do. Because she looks like that mom who would make all the rest of us feel bad about ourselves, but then she admits to peeing on herself or not really liking sporting events, so we can all like her a little more.

I read this as a "buddy read" - a friend of mine and I read a chapter or two a day, then discussed online, and it was great this way. I think this book is perfect for a book club or buddy read and will recommend it.

However, I will say that the copy I received from Netgalley was very hard to read. It had "Copyrighted Material" or "Do Not Duplicate" on every page, in the middle of sentences, and some sentences were out of order or actually missing words.

With so many people gushing over this book, I requested and received a Netgalley copy. (Thank you!). I was not quite as impressed with it as those in my circle. The author’s style is very conversational so it was entertaining and easy to read. She’s also hilarious, making it more enjoyable. The content, however, was pretty basic women’s self-help, focused on changing your perspective. Her humor and style bumps my three stars up to 3.5.

I wanted to like this book. I truly, madly, deeply wanted to love this book. However, the reality of trudging through lie after lie, I just didn't.

On some lies, I could almost relate, and others I wondered what planet is this woman from? While there is mention of God and some scripture from time to time, I missed the aspect of this book that would fall under Christian writing.

This book isn't a Christian testimony of how Faith helped her overcome life's challenges, we all have similar challenges---but perhaps not the bank account. This was more of a testimony of how Rachel Hollis perceives how she became successful by her own doing. I'm not sure if God was part of the equation.

I personally felt that this was not a self-help book, but more so a "pep talk" book that one might expect in a locker room. Sadly, I don't feel enlightened or inspired, perhaps, a little bullied.

I'm not a successful entrepreneur who has the ability to jet from here to there leaving my family behind on a regular basis. I'm not earning a six-figure income, and I'm not even semi-remotely a faux celebrity. I'm just a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, and a part-time librarian. Oddly enough, I'm content with that. But, most importantly, I don't feel that anyone or anything that I have in this life is simply my own doing. All that I have is a blessing from God.

I had originally thought this book would be great for my teenage daughter, but after reading it, I would never share this title with her. I'm all for empowering each other, but this book simply did leave me feeling empowered. Kudos to those that enjoy this book, it simply wasn't for me.

I believe that self-help books are personal. Some words or chapters might strike a cord with some people and others with other types of people. As such, my experience with this book might not be yours, but I’ll explain how I felt anyway:
The introduction was STUNNING. The author managed to raise my hopes, make me think and had me EXCITED for what came next. As she spoke about how the only thing standing in between you and everything you want in life is YOU, and spoke about how she was going to break down the lies we’ve been telling ourselves all our life, I genuinely thought that this book would be something that would make me feel and think.
I jumped into the first ‘Lie’ almost immediately after, and then put the book down to try and absorb it and then, the next day, picked it up again to dive into the next lie.
Now, at the end I sincerely feel that Girl, Wash Your Face was this rushed book, attempting to dissemble years’ worth of self-inflicted damage in just a few pages. While the opening chapter left me inspired, the rest of the book was exactly the opposite - rushed and uninspiring.

Two stars.
This book works to dismantle some of the lies that women believe about themselves in order to empower them to be strong, independent people. Hollis uses her own life experiences to illustrate her points, and while this is helpful in some ways, I did not appreciate how often she generalizes her experience and assumes that her life reflects the realities of others. The book seems to be unaware of the mechanisms of privilege, and ignores the complexities of systemic injustice.

This book wasn’t entirely for me. It was however, motivational and down to earth. I can see why a lot of people enjoyed it and recommend it. I’ve just found that motivational books may not be my genre.

I absolutely LOVED THIS BOOK! I can not wait to read more by this author. I went out and bought this book as a gift for Christmas for my family member and she loved it as well!I have never been a huge fan of self help but I was pleasantly surprised and will definitely pick up more by this author! I have

I got this book and went into reading it with an open mind and open Bible. I struggled to complete it, but I did. Hollis is a good writer; her words and thoughts really draw you in and make you want to stand up and shout “yes, this is where it’s at” and give a fist pump. But when you line her words up next to God’s word you see how lacking they are and how they stray from the truth. The problem is it’s not always a big stray, just a little zig here and a zag there in some instances. But when we add anything to or take anything away from God’s word, then it’s no longer His absolute truth. We can try to make God fit into our way of thinking but then He is no longer God.

I do not recommend this book to anyone. If you feel that you need to read it in order to discuss what is wrong with it with your friends/family, please do so with extreme caution.

Fun uplifting book that makes you feel like you spent time with a fun friend, I enjoyed the honesty and self confidence that she shared to and made me want to laugh out loud at some of the situations.

A common sense motivational book, I really enjoyed this, just a shame not was hampered by the copyright notices stamped through the text making it difficult to get in to!

This book was good. It was motivational (like I expected) and some of the subjects really hit home with me. However, the subjects on dealing with children and being a mom didn't apply to me. I felt like some of it was a little too "in your face" when she talked about how crazy successful her company was and when she was finally able to buy a $1,000 purse. But to each their own.... If I look past the few things I didn't care for, this book does have some good points. I highlighted quite a few passages to reference later when I may be struggling with my own issues.

This book was recommended to me by a dear, book loving friend. I am so thankful, because it couldn't have come at a more perfect time in my life. Rachel Hollis wrote such a beautiful book, that has helped me view things differently. I have purchased a physical copy for three family members and two friends, who all loved it as much as I did.

I'm very skeptical when a new self-help book gets a lot of attention on social media, especially when it's from Christian bloggers and publishers. I held out as long as I could but when I was given a free copy, I thought "why not?" Turns out I was right to be skeptical. This is nothing more than cliches and popular motivational quotes with a few scriptures thrown in here and there. I like the idea of the title, "Girl, wash your face...stop crying...don't believe the lies you've been told..." but there wasn't much substance to her advice. Meaning: she didn't say anything new that I haven't already heard before.

I was torn about this book because I don't think I am the target audience, but there is so much worthwhile advice that I have already started telling students (and family members) to go read it. The chapters on sex and the author's husband did not ring true and felt a bit forced. Chapters on writing and parenting and time management were the most successful.

Girl, everyone needs this book. I have been changed thanks to Rachel Hollis and this book. I cried, I smiled, and I moved myself to get started on the life I was dreaming of and deserved. This is beyond self help it is a personal movement and call to be the better you and that God knows we have flaws. Accept them and move to be better.

I was really excited to read this book on my Kindle. However, as soon as I downloaded the Kindle version and started it, it was apparent that it was complete unreadable. I understand that this is a pre-release galley, but the words "Do Not Duplicate Material" were one EVERY single page, and not just at the top or the bottom - randomly sprinkled in between words and sentences. The result? A complete jumble that was just too distracting to read. I'm a bit confused because I've read several other NetGalley books and never had this problem.

Rachel Hollis motivated me from the first page until the end then I went back to reread several areas again. Her openness about being a foster parent and eating disorders as well as spirituality spoke to the relevancy of this story. Loved the book and looking forward the next one