Permission Granted
Be Who You Were Made to Be and Let Go of the Rest
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Published: 2019
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Publisher's Description
From award-winning blogger Melissa Camara Wilkins, come and find a stunningly simple path to confidence and clarity. All you have to do is give yourself permission to show up as your gloriously imperfect self. Trying to fix yourself is exhausting. But being yourself - that is both possible and life-giving. The key is a simple heart-shift from chasing after perfection to learning to tell a truer story about ourselves, the world, and our place in it. Melissa Camara Wilkins invites you into her journey of discovering the profound simplicity of dropping the pretenses and allowing ourselves to be fully human - flaws and all. This is a story about making life simpler by letting go of who you think you're supposed to be and becoming who you really are. With wit and compassion, Melissa explores how to be present, show up as your real self, and get comfortable in your own skin by aligning the truth inside you with the life you live on the outside. Gain confidence with the freeing practices of dropping the mask, abandoning the experts, and understanding your real assignment. With refreshing honesty and insight, Melissa invites you to move from the either/or dichotomy into a spacious freedom of embracing the both/and - brave and scared, messy and real, gloriously imperfect and absolutely enough. This is your permission slip to be your whole, human self. For everyone who feels the pressure to fit in, measure up, and get it together, Permission Granted is a life-giving invitation to soul-level simplicity.
Endorsements (6)
“This book is a beautiful reminder that one of the most powerful gifts we can give to our families and to the world is to show up for our own lives and be who we really are.”
“For those who feel defeated, downtrodden, or just plain tired, Melissa Camara Wilkins’s gentle, grace-filled encouragement may be exactly what you need to hear.”
“This is a book for anyone who struggles with feeling like she has to measure up, get it all together, and constantly improve herself. In sharing her story, Melissa reminds us all that you don’t have to fix yourself before you’re worthy of love and belonging.”
“I hadn’t even finished the first chapter of Permission Granted before I found myself crying tears of relief. Melissa’s vulnerable tone is a rare gift in our picture-perfect grammable world, and her stories and subsequent permission slips offer women a simple, audacious possibility to consider: perhaps we already are who we’ve been frantically trying to become.”
“I didn’t know how much I needed Permission Granted until I started reading Melissa Camara Wilkins’s words. Not only did she give me permission to enter into the messy moments of life and tune myself to the present, but with generous doses of grace and humor alike, she reminded me to love, let myself be love, and let myself receive love. I don’t think there’s a better gift an author can give a reader.”
“This book will have you asking yourself hard questions and will give you courage to really listen for the answers. Melissa has written us all a permission slip to discover who we really are, so we can be our whole selves in our real lives.”
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