Find out more about Debra Beck and My Feet Aren’t Ugly Revised and Updated Edition by visiting: Empowered Teens and Parents

My Feet Aren’t Ugly is now REVISED and UPDATED with an additional 60 pages! If you have a teen girl in your life, whether she’s a daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, or friend, this book is a MUST have for her!

If a young lady in your life sometimes feel like other girls are prettier, more trendy, more popular, or if she ever feels bad about herself, she needs this book!

In this funny, honest book, teen expert and mentor Debra Beck provides in-depth examples and exercises to develop the tools you need for self-confidence. Learn to have fulfilling relationships, make good decisions for yourself, respect yourself and others all while learning to love yourself for who you are: fearfully and wonderfully made says God!

The book’s catchy title, My Feet Aren’t Ugly, was born of an incident from Beck’s youth: “When I was fifteen years old, I was standing out in front of my house talking to a guy I was crazy about. It was a hot summer day and I was in shorts and bare feet. All of a sudden I noticed he was staring at my feet. He said, ‘You have the ugliest feet I have ever seen! You should never go barefoot.’ I didn’t go barefoot for a long time. I knew that my feet maybe were a little wide but they didn’t seem
ugly to me until then. From then on, I was self-conscious about my ugly feet. When my girlfriends were buying cute, strappy sandals, I was buying sneakers. It took years for me to realize that my feet really aren’t ugly. To me, this is a fitting example of what it is like to be a teen girl.” Part road map, part mentor-in-a-book, My Feet Aren’t Ugly may be the best friend a teen girl ever had. With expert guide
Debra Beck leading the way, teen girls everywhere will learn how to turn those formative years into transformative years.

Why would a hard-partying senior land in Pakistan as a missionary? Or a discourages, cut-from-three-teams freshman pioneer a sports ministry that reaches thousands with the gospel? It’s the same reason we see frozen hearts thawed, wounded souls healed, young leaders mentored, and searching minds grounded in faith–every year. Its because people like you choose to love our students in Jesus’ name.

You can make a life-changing difference in the lives of students. No Professional degrees are required and no special gifting is necessary. It’s all about God using your influence.

Whether you’re a full-time youth worker, parent, or volunteer, you;ll find this fast-paced guidebook packed with stories and ideas on:

• disciplining students
• running life-changing trips
• investing based on your passion and gifting
• recruiting and training partners
• dealing with crisis
• enlisting an army of prayer warriors
• sponsoring groups
• starting conversations with students
• raising money
• breaking thought the “I don’t want your attention” facade
• protecting your own soul and family inspiring church-wide support

Ideal for training volunteers, strengthening your group, or launching a new ministry, YOUthwork delivers decades of experience packaged for immediate application. Make sure everyone who works with students has a copy and watch God use your influence to change lives.

Today’s guest is Nicole O’Dell, the author of the Scenarios Series. Presently there are two books in the series Truth or Dare and All That Glitters (with more to come).

The books are uniquely designed to help tween/teen girls. The books have two endings that requires the reader to choose the outcome of the story. This is a great learning experience that helps to enable the girls to learn from the choices that they make. It also helps to prepare girls for similar situations that may arise in their own lives or the lives of their friends.

Even though the series are all fictitious Nicole’s characters and plots are easy to relate with because she has real life situations intertwined with her fictitious stories. The cool part about these books are the girls get to choose how the book ends. Nicole has implemented two different ending to the story in her book, therefore once the reader reaches a certain point in the book, it asks the reader to choose an ending. When the reader decides, the book tells you what page to go to so that the ending she chooses will end the story. Pure genius! This is awesome on so many levels, however, what stands out in my mind is that when the girls get a practice run. What I mean by that is that the reader gets to choose in the book , and if they happen to find themselves (or a friend) in the same situation they will already be prepared. Is that awesome or what?!

This is a great book and I recommend it to anyone who has a tween or teen in their life.

If you like to learn more about Nicole O’Dell or the Scenarios Series please visit her websites (It’s AWESOME!):

www.NicoleOdell.com or ScenariosforGirls.com

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Regal has just released an awesome book entitled Paperdoll by Natalie Lloyd. The pages within this book touched realms of my heart where only hope and inspiration dwell. One particular chapter in her book resounded in the recesses of my soul, the chapter is Beautiful Scars. It was as though I were reading a chapter from the life of my own child – in that moment I knew that the heavens were at work. I also knew that we were destined to cross paths.

Natalie is a beautiful person inside and out and this shows up through the prose that she pens. She has stories that are as vibrant as the sun and as refreshing as the dew on a Spring morning. This is one book that I would recommend to not only my readers but to my friends.

Natalie Lloyd is a former columnist for Christian teen girls magazine Brio. She has a special heart for teens and it shine through in her new book.

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Pure by Rebecca St. James is an inspiring devotional suitable for every believer.  In this ninety day devotional, you will discover power of purity, the celebration of celibacy, and the awesomeness of abstinence.

The message Rebecca displays throughout this book, is one of attainable serenity for the mind, body, and spirit. Although it is not viewed favorably according to the standards of the secular, she makes it quite clear that she chooses a life of abstinence, because that is what her heavenly Father has called her to do: live a life of purity. She encourages young women to join her in her walk of celibacy.

We need more positive roles models like Rebecca St. James. She has demonstrated that she can be a celebrity and be celibate. In our society intimacy is valued with a price tag being sold to the highest bidder. Fortunately, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Pure takes you on a spiritual walk that is not only truthful, but filled with passion. Primped with bible verses, reflections, a deeper look, and how to apply to daily living, this is the book to have for those who are pursuing purity with passion.