If the teaching of this book is put into regular practice, it has the potential to lead to major changes in how you respond to all that comes your way. The rest of the book draws from the author’s intense and personal experience in a war of thought, drawing out the resources she’s acquired for our use, teaching from a bit of modern brain research just how powerful our minds are and how much they shape who we are. Change your thought, and you change the track that follows. When we’re struck by an emotion, we have a choice, and that comes in at the thought level.

One of them that I found helpful and easy to understand is the spiral from emotion to consequence. And because we’re constantly assaulted by lies, we have to cultivate a practice of rehearsing the truth, of replacing who we think we are with who God says we are in Christ. I won’t give away all of it, but the basics are that we assault the lies in our heads with the truth of God. 10:5), how do we do that? She outlines her approach in the book. If the call of God for our minds is to “take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Cor. As she puts it, “The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears” (p. And I’m so glad I did!Īllen focuses on what’s perhaps the greatest battlefield of our time: the mind.

As someone who’s spent many years thinking and writing about mental health from a Christian perspective, I knew I needed to get to it soon. Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Headwas on my reading list for a while.

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