Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

by Rachel Hollis

Overview

With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.

Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first book featuring her signature combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice.

Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward.

From her temporary obsession with marrying Matt Damon to a daydream involving hypnotic iguanas to her son’s request that she buy a necklace to “be like the other moms,” Hollis holds nothing back. With unflinching faith and tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400201655
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	02/06/2018
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	97,575
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lifestyle expert Rachel Hollis is the founder of the popular lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and is the CEO of her media company, Chic Media. She is a regular contributor for the Huffington Post and PopSugar, and she has appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, The Talk, Extra, and many other programs. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and four children.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hey Girl, Hey! Xi

1 The Lie: Something Else Will Make Me Happy 1

2 The Lie: I'll Start Tomorrow 11

3 The Lie: I'm Not Good Enough 19

4 The Lie: I'm Better Than You 33

5 The Lie: Loving Him Is Enough for Me 43

6 The Lie: No Is the Final Answer 55

7 The Lie: I'm Bad at Sex 73

8 The Lie: I Don't Know How to Be a Mom 81

9 The Lie: I'm Not a Good Mom 89

10 The Lie: I Should Be Further Along by Now 103

11 The Lie: Other People's Kids Are So Much Cleaner/Better Organized/More Polite 113

12 The Lie: I Need to Make Myself Smaller 125

13 The Lie: I'm Going to Marry Matt Damon 135

14 The Lie: I'm a Terrible Writer 145

15 The Lie: I Will Never Get Past This 153

16 The Lie: I Can't Tell the Truth 161

17 The Lie: I Am Defined by My Weight 175

18 The Lie: I Need a Drink 187

19 The Lie: There's Only One Right Way to Be 197

20 The Lie: I Need a Hero 207

Acknowledgments 215

About the Author 219

Editorial Reviews

02/26/2018
Hollis asks female readers to find their inner truths in this witty guide to healthy living. Hollis, founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and married mother of four, is a self-proclaimed recovering workaholic who suffered from erroneous beliefs instilled in childhood: “When I succeeded, I got praise and attention; I felt liked and accepted. But the moment the audience stopped clapping, it all went back to the way it was before. What this taught me... is the belief that in order to be loved, I felt I needed to produce something.” Hollis implores readers to stop worrying about external pressures to always do more and, instead, to find fulfillment by getting in touch with their own desires and feelings. Readers will find hope and humor in Hollis’s stories as she challenges them to take control of their physical, mental, and spiritual health through regulating habits, resisting unhelpful comparisons, and embracing changes such as marriage and motherhood. Opening up about her now-husband and their rough first year of dating, Hollis reveals she was trying too hard to make something work that didn’t fit, and admonishes other women not to do the same by making any single person their purpose for living. Throughout, she pairs biblical lessons with personal anecdotes to make her points. Hollis’s dynamic book is filled with inspiration for women who feel stuck on the path to realizing their dreams. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

'If Rachel Hollis tells you to wash your face, turn on that water! She is the mentor every woman needs, from new mommas to seasoned business women.'

New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Anna Todd

'There aren't enough women in leadership telling other women to GO FOR IT. We typically get the caregiver; we rarely get the boot camp instructor. Rachel lovingly but firmly tells us it is time to stop letting the tail wag the dog and get on with living our wild and precious lives. Girl, Wash Your Face is a dose of high-octane straight talk that will spit you out on the other end, chasing down dreams you hung up on long ago. Love this girl.'

Jen Hatmaker

'In Rachel Hollis's first nonfiction book, you will find she is less cheerleader and more life coach. This means readers won't just walk away inspired; they will walk away with the right tools in hand to actually do their dreams. Dream doing is what Rachel is all about. You will be, too, when you read her newest book.'

founder and co-CEO of the Noonday Collection Jessica Honegger

'Rachel's voice is the winning combination of an inspiring life coach and your very best (and funniest) friend. Shockingly honest and hilariously down to earth, Girl, Wash Your Face is a gift to women who want to flourish and live a courageously authentic life.'

founder and co-CEO of Evereve Megan Tamte