Thank you to WaterBrook & Multnomah and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book.
Jennie Allen's new book has been a wonderful read. I enjoyed reading about her insecurities with her relationship with God (something I've also personally experienced) and how she brought herself out of that pit through prayer and persistence in her pursuit of the Lord. I'd recommend this for anyone struggling in their relationship with God - if they have questions, are uncertain or just feel unworthy! We DO NOT have to believe the anxious/negative thoughts that the enemy uses as his weapons against us. We have the choice to overcome if we just 'get out of our heads'! Great words in this one!

While this book may have been written with a female audience in mind, I cannot think of anyone, male or female, who would not benefit from reading this book. We may be very familiar with these words from Romans 12:2, “Be transformed by the renewal of your mind,” and these from 2 Corinthians 10:5, “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,” Jennie Allen breaks down the practical application of these verses. As a teacher I encouraged my students to be metacognitive, to think about their thinking, in order to improve their comprehension. Allen encourages us to do this as well, but for the purpose of grasping God's truth rather than the enemy's lies, for applying truth to our situations rather than sinking into the darkness that comes from believing lies designed to destroy. I cannot emphasize enough that this book teaches practical application, not theory that leaves us wondering what to do next. It is specific enough to lead, but general enough to apply to each of our individual lives and situations.

I am very grateful to Jennie Allen for being willing to share her own struggles and the path that lead her to spiritual and emotional health, as well as to Multnomah for providing me with a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I was under no obligation to provide a positive review, and received no monetary compensation.

This book has the power to reshape our generation (and future generations). Our society is obsessed with “being enough” in every way, and there’s reactionary, growing trend focused on self-care. People, now more than ever, are feeling the pressure to at least appear to have everything together—the perfect car that you drive to the perfect job that pays for the perfect house for the perfect family that goes on picture-perfect vacations every year. And it’s too much. The increased focus on mental health shows us that people aren’t coping well, and a huge part of that comes down to deception.

Jennie Allen highlights all of this beautifully in this book. The lies we believe, the deep pain they cause, and the lengths we go to hide it all are laid bare in Get Out Of Your Head. She pairs scientific research with scriptural truths in a way that will have you gearing up for battle. The ultimate battle: the battle for your mind.

Make no mistake—this is rough, gritty, deeply entrenched stuff. Jennie doesn’t throw around shallow platitudes. This isn’t prosperity Gospel that promises you’ll have that perfect life if you only change the way you think. This is real and vulnerable. It might shock you, it should anger you, and it *will* change you if you pay attention.

Buy it. It’s done all of that for me. I bought digital, audio, AND paper copies so I could highlight and digest it as much as possible. This is one I will come back to annually. It’s *that* important.

NOTE: Jennie makes sure to compassionately acknowledges the very real and serious role of mental health disorders. She doesn’t downplay their physical reality, but rather highlights that it’s always a good idea to get help. I am a counselor and I 100% recommend this book.

Get Out of Your Head is an informative and eye opening read on your thought life. The book is broken down into 3 parts -Part 1 All the Thoughts, Part 2 Taking Down The Enemies of Our Minds, and Part 3 Thinking as Jesus Thinks.
Jennie takes us from recognizing the feeling or root behind our thoughts to making a choice and changing out thoughts using God's Word and Truths.
In Part 2 of the book she details several choices we can make for example- I choose to be still with God and I choose to Seek the Good of Others to stop the downward spiral of our negative/wayward thoughts. Jennie is open and honest about her struggle with anxiety and her thought life. The book has diagrams showing how a thought cam spiral out of control and also what a difference choosing to catch and change our thoughts in a positive way can make in our behavior and attitude. As this is an area I struggle in, along with anxiety and depression I found this book useful and will be rereading it and applying the principles in my life. I recommend this book for everyone especially people who struggle with self-defeating thoughts, anxiety, depression, or other negative thoughts in life. I received an advanced copy of this book for my honest review. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.

“Get Out of Your Head,” for me, is a timely, needed read, especially given the constant influx of social media, the daily news of the unrest in our country, and my own family chaos and concerns. It is so easy to become overwhelmed. The solution offered is not just how I spend my time but what I allow in my mind. Do I focus on what is around me or do I focus on the only true, lasting solution - God, His purpose, and His ways?

This book has really helped me to see how evil is working to derail my mental health, my emotional health and my relationships with my husband and children. I loved how Jennie walks you through step by step how to fight alongside Jesus towards the victory that is ultimately ours.

Get Out Of Your Head is a hands-on, practical, and amazingly helpful and encouraging book to help you sort through thoughts, lies, beliefs, etc. that you've been trying to get out of your head but just can't. It's not only inspirational and encouraging but filled with practical steps and how to's to actually see change happen. I know many who have read this book and haven't heard one negative or dissatisfied review of it yet. Get this book!

I’m a Jennie Allen fan. I love the way she writes; honest, raw, authentic. As I read the pages she writes I can connect, relate and feel like I’m not alone in the struggle. I’ve heard it said before that our battlefield is in the mind. I myself have struggled with the downward spiral of anxious thoughts, the what ifs and unhelpful patterns of thinking. Through Get Out of Your Head we are reminded to renew our minds with heaven’s perspective. It is possible to take every thought captive, with God’s help we can change the way we think. As Jennie writes, “Learning to capture our thoughts matters. Because how we think shapes how we live.” I don’t know about you but I feel encouraged and empowered to step out of old habits and thought patterns and step into the fullness of a renewed mind, a whole heart and choosing to trust in a good God.

A big thank you to WaterBrook & Multnomah for providing a digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

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If you're anything like me, the idea of getting out of your head probably sounds quite appealing at times! It can be far too easy for our thoughts to spiral out of control, with the doubts and questions and "what ifs" leading us to places we'd rather not go.
Jennie Allen's book provides a challenge to deal with this issue, and a helpful, practical guide to help us take our thoughts captive as Scripture instructs us to do.
Too often, we can feel like victims of our whirling minds, but she points out that, if we are new creations in Christ, change is possible. We have a choice.
This is the key message of the book - we have a choice in the way we think, and the choices we make about our thoughts go on to impact our actions, emotions and relationships.
While I've heard this message before, I've always struggled to put it into practice, and what really stands out about Jennie Allen's book for me is the second section of the book where she addresses a number of common thought spirals, such as those based in shame, fear or cynicism, and she gives specific advice on how to deal with them.
As well as biblical insights, there is some fascinating information about neuroscience, and there are some practical techniques (which appear to be based on cognitive behaviour therapy) to help tackle problematic thoughts.
I'd definitely recommend this book - it is one that I'll be coming back to and seeking to put into practice!

Get Out of Your Head was a lot more interesting than I expected. I absolutely loved the way she combines neuroscience and the Bible. I learned a lot and it really helped me to get out of my head. Even though I received a free copy I will definitely buy one for me and each of my sisters.

Jennie Allen is the voice of a good friend. She gives concrete ideas to fight the anxiety and negativity in your own head, backed with Bible verses and theology. She points us to God for help, not for self help that won't last. Her tone is easy to read and comforting. I recommend this book to anyone dealing with fear, worry, or anxiety that wants the help of God to get on a better train of thought.

The battle for our thoughts is constant and often overwhelming. Inspired by her experience of 18 months of dark, negative, harmful thought patterns, Jennie introduces questions and thoughts to interrupt the negativity and toxicity spirals that worm their way into our minds. By following the steps she outlines (and has worked through herself, and still works through) readers can move their thought patterns from anxious to trusting, from negativity to hopefulness, from anger to peace, from darkness to light, from us-centered to God-centered.

This book is both practical, backed up by science (she includes a lot of research about the brain), Biblically based, and inspirational. She goes beyond just saying “take your thoughts captive” to demonstrating a series of questions that can help take thoughts captive and get them reoriented into positive alignment. If you’ve ever battled with your thoughts taking you negative, sinful, or just hopeless places, within the pages of this book you will find help and hope. And Jennie shares from a place, not of having fully arrived, but of having made it to a better place from where she can offer encouragement and advice from her experiences. I greatly appreciate her vulnerability and openness in how she shared her own struggles. I feel like this is the kind of book I need to read over and over again to let the words of truth and advice fully sink in. There’s so much good stuff in here, and I am prone to forget, even exceedingly helpful advice. I loved that even while reading this book, I was able to put into practice the things Jennie suggested and see improvement in my thought life. I have been immensely blessed by reading this, and feel like I’m in a much healthier emotional and spiritual spot because of it. I plan to recommend this left and right, and re-read it myself from time to time. Highly recommended.

I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I requested Get Out of Your Head because the title and subtitle totally sold me. I am a huge fan of self-help books and this looked like another great choice. Unfortunately, when I first requested to review this book I didn't realize it was a self-help book that is incredibly faith-based.

While I have no problem with Christian aspects in literature, this one is heavy with bible verses and Christ-centered messages, which just isn't something I relate with. I think this book has a wonderful message for the intended reader base and it is just isn't for me personally.

Thank you to NetGalley and Waterbrook for an advanced copy.

Thought provoking and well written, this book can be life changing if the ideas are implemented. I could have done without one particular story she shared as it is a personal trigger for anxiety but I very much enjoyed the ideas in this book.

Great book about fighting anxiety with help of God. Very well written with a lot of useful advises. A lot of examples are from author’s life and way of her dealing with the problems.

*I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for a fair review.

Get out of your head by Jennie Allen I was excited to read this because I struggle with toxic thoughts about myself I had been looking for a christ centered book to help and encourage me and I found it in this book. Jennie opens with straight up truth she does not hold back in this book this isn't your fluffy self help book this is let's get down to the nitty gritty she is in the pit with you and Christ has used her voice to give a ladder to climb out of that pit. I love the practical tools she gives through out the book first capturing our thoughts, being still, community, surrender fears, delight in God, serving, grateful, seek good of others remember who and whose we are. In each section she goes into detail about why it's important and how we can apply it and you feel Christ holy spirit in this book and surrounding you as you read it's so good I will be reading this again and recommending it to everyone.

This is a book that needed to be written! I'm thrilled that Jennie took up this mantel for the Kingdom. In the past I've felt chastised by Christian books that address negative thought-life, anxiety or depression. It's obvious that neither the author or anyone they love has ever come close to being touched by mental illness or the toxic thought spiral that consumes so many. In this book Jennie is vulnerable with her own personal experience and comes across warm and empathetic. You can tell she's been through and seen some thangs. Yes, thangs!

It's a perfect narrative of while yes, we've been given the power through Holy Spirit to win the battle for our minds because it's already been won for us by Christ...

1. We're Kingdom kids in a fallen world and therefore we may struggle for all sorts of reasons (of our own doing, someone else, or reasons that we won't ever know on this side).
2. There is an enemy out there that wants to take us out and he'll use our thought-life to do it if we let him.
3 She lets us know that it's okay, to not be okay (and no pretending). While at the same time helping us understand how detrimental it would be if we were to remain stuck in our heads at the mercy of our stinking thinking and the enemy.
4. There's no shame in needing meds or therapy.
5. Get you a prayer-waring girl (or boy) gang.

I especially love that she doesn't simply throw a bunch of scripture at us and tell us to go get our minds right. She genius-ly and lovingly weaves scripture and science to explain how flawed thinking gets us caught up in our heads (and literally changes our brains), how to get out of our heads (and fix our brains) and how to stay out of it.

Finally a book that doesn't shame the reader for needing medication or therapy. This is a book that I'll feel happy passing along to everyone in my community, no caveats required.

I learned a lot from this book. As someone who struggles with anxiety, this book pointed me to truth but also provided we with tools to help myself combat the lies I believe and replace them with truth. I appreciated Jennie's vulnerability as she shared her story. I recommend this book to anyone looking to "get out of your head"

I wanted to really like this book. The premise resonated with me. However, in the end, it wasn't what I was expecting. While the author acknowledges at one point about differing personalities (she being an enneagram "7" and her sister being a "6" and introvert v. extrovert), it feels like the suggestions offered are more of the one-size-fits-all variety. I also had a tough time following the organization of the book, this could be due to the e-book formatting. She uses graphics of spirals, but didn't really walk through how the spiral matched with the chapter. I think what I was really looking for was in Part 3 of the book. By then, though, I was skimming. I will potentially go back and read that portion again. All in all, I think some people will really like this book. But, for some, like myself, it will be hard to relate. This is written from the point-of-view of a very energetic (enneagram 7) author who had an 18 month bout of anxiety. It's not written with the understanding that some face some degrees of these anxious thoughts as their daily norm.

I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this book via NetGalley.

This is a useful book especially for Christian women who feel stuck or plagued by negative thoughts. Allen's goal here is to equip readers to escape the spiral of toxic thoughts and she accomplishes this goal with grace and style. While a bit repetitive in a few spots (not many), the book is nonetheless a winner due to Allen's thoughtful approach and entertaining, approachable writing.