Introvert by Design: A Guided Journal for Living with New Confidence in Who You're Created to Be

by Holley Gerth

A Guided Journal to Help Introverts Step into Their God-Given Strengths

When God created you as an introvert, he didn't make a mistake. You're exactly what he had in mind all along. As an introvert, you have unique strengths that the world needs--now more than ever. But that doesn't mean those strengths are always easy for you to see.

Building on insights she introduced in her popular book The Powerful Purpose of Introverts, bestselling author and counselor Holley Gerth leads you through an interactive adventure of personal discovery. Designed to take you from insecurity to holy confidence in who God made you to be, each daily reading includes inspiration from Scripture, practical advice from Holley, and writing prompts to help you

· examine your thoughts and feelings in this moment
· process the experiences of yesterday
· and step boldly into what God has for you today

You don't have to change who you are to fit someone else's expectations. Discover new freedom, confidence, and clarity in the pages of this beautifully designed guided journal.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 9, 2023

About the author

Holley Gerth likes humans, words, and good coffee. She's also a Wall Street Journal bestselling author with over 500,000 copies sold.

Find out more about her new release, What Your Mind Needs for Anxious Moments.

Reviews

[Meagan | The Chapter House · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love journals, and I love anything to do with introversion–so I was especially excited to check out this guided journal. I’ve listened to the author on a couple podcasts, so knew she knew her stuff–she’s done her research!

And overall I am quite pleased with the book. I’ll admit I had mixed feelings about phrases such as our “true selves,” “realign[ing] with our true identity,” and “honoring [our needs]”–it felt very much right out of the self-love/care movement. Now, I am all for taking care of ourselves…but the end goal can feel a little nebulous from messenger to messenger, and I want to honor God in the process–as I knew Gerth would too.

I recently read Allie Beth Stuckey’s You’re Not Enough book and would now really like to get her and Gerth together. I appreciated how Gerth went on to quantify some of the aforementioned statements, but want to gently challenge this and some of the other hot-button terms mentioned–to root ourselves in God as the source of truth and sufficiency, not ourselves. (And Gerth does get to this, very nicely, in Chapter 9; similarly, her discussion in Chapter 11 about not being glory chasers, but instead being servants, was powerful.)

I loved the inclusion of scriptures stating quiet is “something positive and powerful”, as well as Gerth’s discussions of routines vs. rhythms, playing to our strengths, the importance of rest (and its seven different kinds!), and how many cultures value a quiet nature (in contrast to, for example, the American elevation of extroversion).

So–yes, I did gently vet the read, but also found it very insightful and worth the effort. Being a guided journal, doing the work paired well with the nature of the book anyway.

I’m sure that reading Gerth’s other books would only expand on the ideas presented here, and look forward to reading them!

I received an eARC of the book from the publisher via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.