Dannah Gresh - A Moms Guide to Lies Girls Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

Lies Girls Believe is a fantastic tool for moms to prepare their daughters to stand strong against the lies they will be tempted to believe in their teens and twenties and beyond. Invest in your daughters future by equipping her with Truth. Because the old saying got it rightan ounce of prevention is definitely worth a pound of cure!

MARY A. KASSIAN

Author of Girls Gone Wise

I loved Lies Young Women Believe by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth and Dannah Gresh. And now, I am so excited to see Lies Girls Believe introduce younger girls to the Truth that sets them free. Only Jesus can do that, but Dannah makes understanding how to experience it so accessible. I cant wait to get it into the hands of my granddaughters!

CATHE LAURIE

Founder and director of Virtue, the womens ministry at Harvest Christian Fellowship

Our daughters are being surrounded by positive sounding messages like Girl Boss and Girls Rule the World. But is that the Truth? Nothe Truth is that Jesus is the boss and He rules! Im so glad Dannah Gresh has written this guide for moms to combat the lies of social media, pop culture, and foolish friends. Grab your daughter and this book, and head to a favorite spot to talk. I know this book will be the conversation starter for many intentional dates with my daughters!

ARLENE PELLICANE

Speaker and author of Parents Rising and 31 Days to Becoming a Happy Mom

Girls have never had a more fun way to discover Truth and help them recognize the lies that break trust and relationships. Dannah Gresh clearly compares the lies to Truth in ways girls can identify to correct beliefs about themselves and discover Christs goal for their life.

RON HUNTER JR.

Cofounder and director of the D6 Conference

Author of DNA of D6: Building Blocks of Generational Discipleship

Our girls lives depend on their mothers knowing Gods Truth. That sounds like a clich, but for me it was and is still paramount to saving my daughters life. Dannah unfolds a process that sets the mother-daughter team free to dispel lies and uncover the Truth God wants us to believe about His love for us, our families, friendships, and our future. Youll learn how to listen, dwell, believe, and act on Gods Truth. Therein is freedom.

JENNY SUMMERS

Executive Director of Pregnancy Resource Clinic and mother of eight

2019 by DANNAH GRESH

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W hen I first wrote Lies Women Believe in 2001, my burden was particularly for adult women who had fallen prey to the deception of the enemy. As women read the book, many shared with me that the lies they believed had been rooted in their thinking since their teen years. It became increasingly clear that we needed to address these issues in younger women, before those lies could take root and produce destructive results in their lives. So in 2008, I invited Dannah Gresh to join me in penning Lies Young Women Believe.

It didnt occur to me back then that one day we would need another version of the book to help even younger girls recognize and overcome lies. At that point, these girls werent yet on the front lines of the battle, as teens were. They werent manifesting the telltale consequences of believing lies that their moms and grandmoms were experiencing.

But all that was changing while Dannah and I were writing the book for teenagers. The word tweenfirst coined in the 1940sfinally gained popular usage to describe the new consumer demographic of eight-to-twelve-year olds. They were being targeted in an effort to widen the market on products once sold to adults and teens. Suddenly things like makeup and brand name fashion were necessary for girls. The results were measurable and almost immediate: depression, body image issues, and eating disorders skyrocketed among these girls, many of whom had not yet reached puberty. And the problem has only worsened in the last decade or so.