I have taken to reading this at night to my sensitive daughter and just a bonding time between the two of us.

It's very positive and reassuring.

As if the title isn't enough to make you feel better ... this book delivers what it promises. If you only buy one non-fiction book in 2012, this needs to be it!

I had to read this book much slower than I usually read review books. It was loaded with nuggets of truth my soul needed to hear. Things like ... "As I did, it seemed God whispered to my soul, "You think you have to take what's broken and make it perfect in order to be used by me. But I think in a completely different way. I took what was perfect, my Son, and made him broken so that you could be whole. And because you belong to him, your brokenness can bring healing to others too."

Holley writes in a very easy, smooth manner to reach out to your heart and plant truths that can be life changing. I believe every woman needs to read this book at some time in their life. She places thought provoking questions along the chapters and brief exercises to walk through the message she's presenting. The book handles so many areas that a woman faces - who we are really, why can't I believe the message that I am amazing, my feelings and emotions, my relationships and connections, where I am going in this life, taking care of myself, and what God really wants me to remember from this lesson. At the end of the book is a guide to take the learning deeper as a group or individual.

If you are a woman and you love God, but have struggled to feel content with who you are, how you act or behave and how you relate to the body of Christ - you need to read this book. Holley is gifted in the heart-to-heart talks.

"Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.

Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group".

It was all Holley's idea from the start when she said to me (on the back of her book) "Psst...pull up a chair and I'll tell you a secret."

So I sat, notepad in hand, ready for a business lunch. You see I had received a copy of You're Already Amazing in exchange for an objective review and I was here and ready to get the facts and "just the facts ma'am". Was it well written? (Yes) Was it engaging? (Yes) Does it apply to the deep heart issues and just regular kind of living issues that we as women have? (Yes and yes)

But it wasn't long (page 16 in fact) that we (and I quote) "... settle into a quiet corner. Order our favorite drinks. Swap small talk over mochas or tea. Sip by sip we go deeper, until we land at the level of the heart...that place it's hard to go in the middle of the busy and the broken."

I put away my notepad, took out my highlighter, and began marking into golden the truths nestled in those words; precious treasures for my heart.

"Most people don't do what you do, love what you love, feel the kind of passion you feel about that thing...if most people don't do what you do, and you're passionately pursing Jesus with your life, then it's probably not just a human plan. The heartbeat of God is probably somewhere within it. We need you, just you, to fulfill that purpose, complete that project, bring that gift to the world in a way no one else can. "(page 18)

"Our divinely created strengths (fueled by God's power) are actually supported by our weakness, because if we were good at everything, we wouldn't focus on much of anything." (pg 27)

"God will use you in a lot of different ways throughout your life." (pg 32)

"The road He's carved out for you is yours alone. It's always the road less traveled because you're the only one who is ever going to walk it" (pg 79)

"God knows we're human. He knows we get worn out. Sometimes He simply says, 'Take a break, child.'" (pg 84)

"God promises that when you trust Him, He'll take care of you wherever you are and get you to where He wants you to go." (pg 98)

This was not some clinical discussion — not a one-sided expert talking to a needy one. This book is a heart to heart with Holley. Throughout her words of wisdom and ideals she adds (in parentheses, a lot!) her own reactions, doubts, and struggles. It truly is like having coffee with a good honest friend who has found the most incredible way of living a life of faith and cannot wait to let you in on the secret.

This book really addresses some areas I was struggling with in trying to accept myself for who I am and not who I thought I should be based on my observations of others. The author provides different aspects of human characteristics where you get to see that there are different gifts we are given and that even though they are not identical to others, they serve an equally important purpose. God made us each unique, so instead of beating ourselves up for not being like others, you can come to realize you're great exactly how you are!

This book is should be a must read for every woman of any age to not only help her discover her spiritual strengths but her amazing God-given highly esteemed value that only our Creator, in His supreme almighty authority, made us in His likeness to a degree that we can never imagine.

Holley Gerth has been gifted with making women feel/know that God created each of us for a specific purpose, at this specific time in history, to impact His kingdom for eternity. And His eternal love and blessing is sealed upon each of us.