At She Speaks 2017, I was blessed to attend a workshop by Susie Larson. She is a wise, honest mentor with a loving heart toward women who struggle with feelings of overwhelm.

Susie’s helpful book meets women right in the middle of our difficult feelings, many of which we don’t admit out loud, but carry around in our hearts. We feel pressured, dragged down, and overloaded by responsibilities. We want relief, yet we don’t know how to get it. Susie is sensitive toward those needs and offers down-to-earth advice for how to fix it.

Our physical and spiritual needs
The first half of her book deals with physical needs. She shares her own stories and struggles with health and weight problems as a young mom. I enjoy reading health magazines and learning healthy tips. I was pleasantly surprised with the many healthy tips she offered from a wise perspective. Her tips are encouraging and science-based, and they match with common sense. It’s hard to start healthier habits, but Susie tells us how and why we should keep pressing on.

Her book’s second half is about our spiritual needs. She masterfully complements the physical needs with the spiritual needs and sometimes matches them up. For example, in one chapter she talks about what we’re seeking in eating for comfort, and how food can’t meet those needs. In the second half of the book, she describes in detail how Jesus meets all those cravings, one by one. I appreciate how she wove spiritual and practical elements together in this book.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed and you want advice from someone who’s thrived despite the challenges, I can’t think of a better book to recommend to you today.

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This was a good book. It gives practical tips on how to find balance by seeking God's plan for your life.

In Over Your Head by Susie Larson is a wonderful book if you are in need of greater balance in your life. Does your life feel like an endless list of tasks to get done? Do you feel depleted in you physical or spiritual health? Pick up this book. The author deals with these topics in a simple and easy to use format. She quickly gets to the heart of the matter and helps you think things through. This is a book to read and re-read again. I highly recommend it. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher. These opinions are entirely my own.

Thus is a comprehensive book with lots of insight into getting balance in life. There are many heart challenging questions to work through & much encouragement to find what God is asking you to do and do it.

The description of this book made me so excited to read it. But I quickly realized that I wasn't reading anything new or profound. And I also realized that I was finding a lot of repetition.

I really appreciate what the author was trying to say, but got tired of reading practically the same thing over and over again.

I went into this book expecting some real life applications for finding balance in my life and instead got health advice. Unfortunately that isn't what I was looking for.