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Approval Addiction

Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

by Joyce Meyer
Pat Lentz
Audiobook
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There is an epidemic of insecurity in society today. Many people suffer from an unhealthy need for affirmation. They are not capable of feeling good about themselves. For some the quest for approval becomes an actual addiction, as they seek self-worth from the outside world because they can't find it within themselves. Joyce Meyer understands the need for seeking approval from others to overcome feelings of rejection and low self-esteem. The good news, she says, is that there is a cure. God provides all the security anyone needs. Her goal is to provide a pathway toward freedom from the approval addiction.

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  • Release date

    April 5, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781594831638
      • File size: 166556 KB
      • Duration: 05:46:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Most of us have a healthy need for appreciation from time to time. However, bestselling author Joyce Meyer points out that some of us require constant approval from peers, parents, children, friends, superiors, and co-workers, a state of affairs that results in never-ending disappointment in our lives. Using biblical teachings, Pat Lentz imparts the author's insightful self-help counsel to provide self-esteem-adjustment solutions for the approval-addicted psyche. Her comforting and reassuring presentation sets the tone for introspection, learning to limit apprehension, and creating a stress-free environment for personal reassessment. B.J.P. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 28, 2005
      Meyer, author of the million-copy bestseller Battlefield of the Mind
      plus more than 60 other books, addresses the constant need some people have for approval. This need stems from insecurity, which, in Meyer's own case and in the case of many others, arises from abuse—physical, verbal or emotional—sometime in the past. After years of struggle, study and attempts to live out biblical teachings, Meyer happily reports that she now lives for God's approval alone. For readers beginning the journey to recovery, she offers biblical exposition and sound—if unoriginal—self-help advice. The first step, she says, is accepting who we are and where we stand in God's eyes. "We must learn to think about and believe in our righteousness," she declares. The second step is facing our approval addiction and the feelings of shame, guilt, anger and unforgiveness that come with it. Finally, we must break our behavior patterns in the future. Meyer admits that she "will always be a type-A... in fact, most of the time I am type A+." Her writing bears out her self-assessment: it's strong, pointed, no-nonsense and even pushy. But Meyer knows what she's talking about, truly loves God and wants people, with God's help, to overcome their addiction to human approval. Her goal? "I want you to become addicted to Jesus!"

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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