Helpful to the faithful.....

I ordered this book on a recommendation of a dear and true friend who serves upon the ship M V Odulus, which sails throughout the world preaching it's Christian religion and bringing books and knowledge to those in deprived places on this earth. I highly recommend the book for anyone who is truly faithful and believing in Jesus Christ...it would definately be helpful from a religious aspect. But for those of us who are atheists, or only believing of a "higher power" or "energies", this book will leave you befuddled and chuckling ever so lightly. I think the book is truthful in regards to it's direct religious aspects, but personally, leaves the rest of us shaking our heads in religious discomfort.

This book changed my life!

I began this book on January 1, 2006 and completed it on January 14!!!!!!!!! This book has truly been given by the Lord and Mrs. Ethridge is an eloquent and honest writer. I am buying several copies AND the workbook for my sisters. I suggest it to women ALL the time and have even started a women's group, by the Lord's grace here in Alabama. I was able to walk away from a very emotionally abusive relationship after completing this book. I HIGHLY recommend it and say this to anyone reading this - if you are tired of low quality relationships, compromise and being bound, please pray and read this book. If you are ready to be challenged to go to the next level, if you are ready to hear the truth about why you do what you do...this book is an amazing tool! No, it will not solve all your problems, nor will you morph into a new person instantly, but you WILL have the tools necessary to walk forward into a new you. Yea, I dig it THAT much.

I read this book in disbelief

My church did this book as a group study and I read it in disbelief. Rampant assumptions were made throughout that all women have the issues and battles that the author stated she has had in her life. Not all women have dysfunctional families, fractured relationships with their fathers, and use their "feminine wiles" to catch a man merely for the conquest and affirmation of their own worth. To assume that each time I watch a movie or read a book and enjoy the story and the characters including the attractive leading man, that I am somehow in the wrong and should feel much guilt over it is also a bit too much for me.Another section blew her credibility way out of the water for me and that is the personal integrity issues with other men she mentions that she dabbled in off and on while she was serving on staff as a minister for almost 15 years. At the point where she gave detailed proper intimacy guidelines, my group gave up on the book. No one in our group could even remotely identify with any of this book except for the self-esteem issues. It is a rather elementary concept that a portion of a woman's personal self-worth is based on her looks. I am so shocked by the book as a whole that there is even a small part of me that questions whether every detail can even be taken at face value.