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Names: Bruno, Beth, author.
Title: A voice becoming : a yearlong mother-daughter journey into passionate, purposed living / Beth Bruno.
Description: New York : Faith Words, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017032373 | ISBN 9781478974659 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781478974680 (ebook) | ISBN 9781478923756 (audio downloadable)
Subjects: LCSH: Mothers and daughtersReligious aspectsChristianity. | WomenReligious aspectsChristianity. | Bruno, Beth.
ISBN: 978-1-4789-7465-9 (hardcover), 978-1-4789-7468-0 (ebook), 978-1-4789-7467-3 (trade paperback)
Beth Bruno clearly has a heart for girls, and in this unique resource for mothers and daughters she bridges the two generations. With wisdom, humility, and heartfelt confessions, Beth offers a road map on how to celebrate our adolescent daughters while helping them discover their voice and purpose. In an age of intentional parenting, where moms hunger for guidance on how to raise strong, confident, and godly girls, this book meets an important need. Taken to heart, it can strengthen both families and society for many years to come.
Kari Kampakis, mother of four daughters and author of 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know and Liked: Whose Approval Are You Living For?
In A VOICE BECOMING, Beth Bruno celebrates the audacity of becoming a strong woman, offering a unique, intentional guide to helping your daughter plunge into womanhood. Its tempting to give up and just try to survive this tumultuous season, but A VOICE BECOMING provides practical ideas that go beyond simply enduring the teen years to relentlessly cultivating the hearts of our daughters.
Melanie Dale, author of Women Are Scary and Its Not Fair
Fellow mamas, Beth Bruno is the wise guide we want on our team. And A VOICE BECOMING is the resource weve been waiting for to help us raise brave faithful young women. Her wisdom, passion, and love are precious gifts that nourish us and bless our girlies.
Margot Starbuck, author of Small Things with Great Love
In her practical book, Beth Bruno helps mothers imagine their daughters transition from girlhood to young adulthood differently, inspiring courage in place of fear, intentionality where there might otherwise be resignation. Besides offering wonderful recommendations of books and movies and activities to share together, Beth most importantly invites mothers into conversation and intimate relationship with their daughters. I only wish Id read A VOICE BECOMING when my own two daughters were younger.
Jen Pollock Michel, award-winning author of Teach Us to Want and Keeping Place
A VOICE BECOMING is a rich, beautiful, trail guide for the mother who wants to lead her daughter into womanhood with intentionality and purpose. Laced with Scripture, story, and practical insights, Beth Brunos book is one that Ill return to again and again as the mother of a daughter.
Ann Swindell, author of Still Waiting and founder of Writing with Grace
An intensely intimate look into a mothers fight for her daughters soul and purpose. The challenges of modern life and influences are no match for this intelligent and creative resource. Pulling from memoir, biblical examples, literature, and real-life relationships, A VOICE BECOMING is decisively the resource for creating a life-changing rite of passage for your coming-of-age daughter.
Shayne Moore, author and founder of Redbud Writers Guild
Beths book is a must-read for mothers, grandmothers, aunts, as well as fathers and grandfathers and uncles! I wish we had this guide raising our two daughters, but we now have two granddaughters and the role we play is far more active in promoting the strength, voice, and character of our girls. This guide is a gift for all those who believe in our childrens and grandchildrens future.
Dan B. Allender, PhD, professor of counseling psychology, the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, and Rebecca Allender, founders of the Allender Center for Trauma and Abuse
Beth Bruno has lovingly created a compass for all those who long to find their way through todays tangled maze to adulthood. A true north, A VOICE BECOMING is full of the very things we hope for each member of our global sisterhood whether she be mother, daughter, or friendthe blessing of knowing who we are, caring boldly for others, and the holy courage to become who we were always meant to be.
Belinda Wilson Bauman, founder of One Million Thumbprints and author of Brave Soul
Every mother longs for a kind, compassionate, and relatable friend to journey with her through the peaks and valleys of parenting. In A VOICE BECOMING, Beth Bruno is that friend. She not only casts a compelling vision for who God designed girls to become but also calls us mothers inward to investigate our own voice, calling, and stories. You will find both a trajectory for your daughter as she enters womanhood as well as an invitation to participate in Gods great story of global sisterhood.
Aubrey Sampson, MOPS International blogger, speaker, and author of Overcomer and Game Changer
To Ella and Sophie
May you Know you are Wanted, Valued, Purposed
Do not ask me what I did, ask me what I didnt do. I did not clip her wings.
Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malalas father
I am out to wreck my daughter.
I am out to create a new paradigm of raising girls who love God, know their voice, and can envision a life of the two intertwined. To call my teen daughter to something of these proportions, I need to break her heart the way Jesus heart breaks, help her see herself the way He sees her, and create a framework of womanhood that can hold her as she develops, doubts, and excels into the future.