Approval Addiction

Approval Addiction is something I have struggled with for a long time as did Joyce Meyer. Joyce writes from raw personal knowledge of how insuecurity and low self esteem - stemming in her case from damaging childhood experiences - that can leave us feeling constantly frustrated and lacking real peace and joy. It was through embracing the knowledge the she is unconditionally loved by God that she found inner security and the power to live her life to the full.

This book is done in three sections.

Section one Accepting Who We Are

Section two Addressing Our Addictions

Section Three Breaking The Patten For The Future

It seems as though there is a lot to conquer but when you break it down into these simple parts, it seems to make more and more sense. So many people today feel insecure in our modern society. What comes with this insecurity is that people feel bad about themselves, which steels their joy and their hope and causes major problems in many relationships that they try to form. Many people today also feel insecure because of loss,  rejection or the failure to gain a position they were desperate to get. Then our thoughts turn to ways that others might approve of us or accept us, just to try to overcome the feelings of rejection and low self-esteem.

The knowledge that leads to Deliverance can only be gained by accepting that you live under a burden of guilt and condemnation, feeling unworthy and insecure. Are you a people-pleaser always looking for the approval of others? If the answer is yes, then this book shows within it the hope and with the grace and the mercy of God to help you overcome those feelings because they affect not only your personal relationships but your relationship and your prayer life and your ability to be premoted in this life and your communication with everyone including God.

We should be able to enjoy life to the full and the only person that we should be trying to gain the approval of is our Lord and Saviour. I read this book a few years ago and it changed my life around - although even today I struggle with trying to please everyone and I do this with the knowledge that it is detrimental to my health. I try to do to much and then end up flat on my back and have to rest up and draw strength from just being quiet and in communion with my God.

I have had this book on my bookshelf and take it out when times get hard, and remind myself what Joyce suggests that WE do, and have to be proactive in setting ourselves right and remember to say NO when we have just done to much.