Review: Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are

Do you know the twenty lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively?


As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life. Now, in this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the twenty lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively, lies we’ve told ourselves so often we don’t even hear them anymore.

With painful honesty and fearless humor, Rachel unpacks and examines the falsehoods that once left her feeling overwhelmed and unworthy, and reveals the specific practical strategies that helped her move past them. In the process, she encourages, entertains, and even kicks a little butt, all to convince you to do whatever it takes to get real and become the joyous, confident woman you were meant to be.

With unflinching faith and rock-hard tenacity, Girl, Wash Your Face shows you how to live with passion and hustle--and how to give yourself grace without giving up.

Review:

Girl, Wash Your Face is so real and relatable. It gives you what so many of us lack in this age of digital perfection. If you aren’t familiar with Rachel, your missing out. She’s the best girlfriend you didn’t realize you were missing. Her real & raw life stories are always expertly complimented by her inspiring & tangible ways to help you live your best life.

Her genuine desire for all the women in the world to not just live but thrive in their life is palpable. She shows readers in so many ways that perfect is not the goal, progress is. This has been a life motto of mine for sometime and coming across Rachel and this amazing book has been a joy. It’s a cross between gut busting laughter & gut punch of motivation.

In each chapter, Rachel starts with a lie you tell yourself, provides examples from her own life illustrating it, then lists the tools she used (or wished she had) that help overcome the lie. She writes as if she's your bestie giving advice and sometimes tough love over a VLC (vodka la croix). 

Ultimately, reading this book will not change your life. No person, no book, no thing can fix what is broken for you. Rachel writes, "Only you have the power to change your life." This book can give you the tools that you need to reach your goals and make lasting change to live your best life, but it's up to you to make it happen. She writes, "Please stop telling yourself you deserve this life. Please stop justifying a continued crappy existence simply because that's the way it's always been. Just as you've chosen to stay in this place for so long, you can choose too to get yourself out of it."