What an excellent book! The author has definitely lived what she’s writing about. This was an great balance of relating her stories with scripture and doesn’t force the Bible to work for what she wants to say. She lets the Bible speak for itself and shows how it has worked in her life! Thank you for a book worthy of reading! Thank you for speaking the truth!

And thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this book!

WOW! Tailor Made by Alex Seeley was a life changing book. She writes with authority of someone who has lived what she preaches and breaks things down to an understandable level. Fantastic book that I highly recommend!

I know many of us have heard the term “stinking thinking,” we say this when our thoughts are negative, hurtful, or are garbage. This isn’t how we are to think. God wants us to see ourselves as He sees us, a beauty, someone that was worth dying for. Due to human nature, it is hard for us to think like God thinks.

Growing up I was always told that I wouldn’t amount to anything, that I was stupid, could never do anything right. When you constantly hear these things it sticks with you and it becomes your identity. It takes a lot to change your mindset from these words to you are fearfully and wonderfully made, you are a gift, God loves you for you, and etc. I still have these thoughts in the back of my head that those people are right.

When I was given the opportunity to read and review Alex Seeleys new book, Tailor Made, I knew I needed these words in my life. Alex was just like me and told some of the same things when she was younger. In Tailor Made, Alex helps us recognize the wrong thinking or stinking thinking that has been brought on to us by insecurities, circumstances, and etc., and offers us ways to replace them with a new view on God and what he has to say about us. We will discover the secret to who God has created us to be and not what others wanted us to be.

We each have our own identity. An identity that is found in Christ. We each are created in His image. Tailor Made will give you the foundation you need to find these and get rid of all the stinking thinking. I highly recommend this book to all of you. It will change your life.

I received a copy of this book for free, a favorable review was not required. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Loved hows she wrote her message and encourages people. Everyone who will read this book will feel a renewed sense of self and motivated to live out of it. I felt more alive and inspired after reading it., The writing is fresh with lots of Scripture, she writes with honesty and humor

I had been looking forward to reading this book for a long time. I'm encouraged and inspired by Alex's words and will be sharing the principles in this book with many family and friends. Highly recommended and would like many more books from Alex!

This is a good book on understanding who we are in Christ and what that means in our lives. She's biblical and gives examples from her own life of learning and growing and trusting Him.
I received this book from the publisher for the purpose of an honest review.

I loved this book so much! I even messaged Alex on instagram to let her know how much her book meant to me. I appreciated the turmoil of her childhood both in her family and with people on the outside of her home that called her names for being the child of immigrants. The Bible verses that accompanied the pain and circumstances that she used to overcome these childhood taunts and how she grew from it was all amazing and hit home with me.

"You are stupid!", "You're a wog!", "You're an accident and a mistake!", "You're the black sheep in the family!", "You're fat!". These are just some labels people may give us. These same hurtful words that impacted us to a degree that we may be living our lives constrained by these labels, and hence doubting our meaning and purpose in this life. In this book, the author helps us to identify these wrong and doubtful thinking and replaced them with biblical truth about ourselves.

This book fared quite well in identifying the roots of our wrong thinking which led to low self-esteem, self-doubt and even doubting the nature of God. Causes such as feelings of insecurity, generational patterns, lacking of forgiveness, and so forth were addressed in the first 4 chapters of the book. They were quite insightful. As for the rest of the book, the author provided applicable ways and methods to help us in overcoming these wrong thinking or lies, with biblical truth. For instance, the moment we put our faith and trust in Jesus, we are a new creation, hence we ought to clothe ourselves with Jesus, strength, dignity, splendour, humility and love. The importance of right biblical thinking were further reiterated with bible verses which I think it is important.

This book is written from the author's personal experience. Growing up she encountered rejection from her family, causing her to constantly crave for verbal affirmation. She has also been name-called by people as she was an Italian immigrant living in Australia. We can in a way relate to these experiences. I appreciate the author's honesty and humility in sharing them with her readers in this book.

While I appreciate the author's honesty, intention and love in sharing her story with us, unfortunately this book suffers from unnecessary trite passages. Truth be told, there were moments when I felt like quitting certain chapters. This is the only no-no for me in this book.

In a nutshell, Tailormade reminds us of who we are in the eyes of God. We are created in the image of God, fearfully and wonderfully made by His loving hands. Thus we are unique and precious to God, and not without meaning or purpose in this life.

"Each of us has been tailormade to reveal God's glory as individuals reflecting His nature." - Alex Seeley

***Sincere gratitude to NetGalley and the publisher for a free ecopy of this book in exchange for an honest review.***

If you were wondering why God made you, what you were made for, and what is your purpose, this is the book for you!
Alex, the author, shares her own life story about being the unwanted fourth child in her family. Her mother had only wanted 2 children, but she gave birth to David, and almost lost her life because of it and a few years later she gave birth to Alex, an 8 pound baby girl. Alex was called “la cretina” which means “idiotic or moronic” by her mother as a child when she did or said something stupid or forgetful. This treatment caused Alex to have a poor self image of herself and she did not think she was as good as other people.
Alex learned about God’s love for her, that He loved her before she was born, and that nothing can ever stop God’s love. “Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38–39).
Alex discusses how she felt like she did not fit into her the “Australian” mode because she had dark curly hair and dark eyes and she lived in a world of blonde blue eyed girls. She tried to look and act like the other girls because she wanted to belong.
Alex continued to feel badly about herself, and she tried to act like other people wanted her to act and to please them instead of being her “real self.” One day the Holy Spirit prompted her to watch a DVD by Louie Giglio, the founder of Passion City Church. Alex began to realize how powerful God was, that He is so glorious and she realized how she had allowed her circumstances and the Enemies voice to dictate her thinking.
Alex felt a healing in her heart and knew that if she was good enough for God then she could be who she wanted to be, eat what she liked and she also allowed God’s voice to be the loudest one she heard.
You will have to read the rest of the book to find out if Alex went back to being her childhood self or if she became someone else!