No more Christian nice girl
Subtitle: when just being nice instead of good hurts you, your family and your friends
By: Paul Coughlin and Jennifer D. Degler.
Contributors: Degler, Jennifer D.
Publisher: Bethany House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780764207693
Subjects: Christian women -- Religious life; Christian women -- Conduct of life; Women -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Description: "A look at how Christian women are conditioned to be falsely nice instead of genuinely good. Shows how they can follow Jesus' example and speak the truth in love, becoming authentic, powerful women of loving faith"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The one-sided Jesus: sanctified sweetness; title: Social and cultural pressures: sugar and spice and how we learned to act nice; title: Harmful childhood experiences: sifted sugar; title: Nice vs. good: how does god prefer his women?; title: Friendships and family: how nice wrecks your relationships; title: Dating: how nice attracts mr. wrong; title: Marriage: how nice messes up matrimony; title: Sex: how nice steals your spice; title: Work: how nice cripples your career; title: The journey from Christian nice girl to God's good woman; title: Appendix a "not so nice" Jesus in the gospels; title: Appendix b abuse in marriage.