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You Are Enough: Learning to Love Yourself the Way God Loves You
If I asked you to name your favourite things-the things you love-how long would it take for you to name yourself?
If you're anything like me, you've tried to love God and love others without thinking too much about yourself. Wanting to avoid self-centeredness, I doubted myself and condemned myself-I even hated myself-until I noticed the ancient words of Mark 12:31, "Love your neighbour as yourself." A gentle whisper led me in a new direction and everything in my life began to change.
In You Are Enough, Jonathan Puddle teaches how to:
- Love your body and embrace the space you take up.
- Discern God's presence and feel safe with your creator.
- Get to know your emotions and inner life.
- Encounter love in the most scarred, scared, and sacred places of your heart.
- Love your whole self the way God does, with gentleness and compassion.
Drawing from Scripture, trauma-informed therapy, Christian inner-healing, breathing and embodiment exercises, and silent prayer & contemplative spirituality, You Are Enough is a holistic healing journey towards abundant life. Daily readings are easy to understand, with practical exercises to help you embrace the truth of your beloved-ness in every part of your mind, body, soul and spirit.
Features guided audio and video meditations to take your journey to the next level.
"This simple yet profound devotional will help you grow in love as it reveals unhealthy thinking, replacing it with truth." - Kim Walker-Smith, Jesus Culture
"I anticipate deep heart healing and a new sense of wholeness for everyone who embraces Jonathan's gentle meditations." - Brad Jersak (PhD), theologian and author
"Practical and poignant, personal and scriptural, this devotional packs a punch!" - Danielle Strickland, spiritual leader, justice advocate and author
Jonathan Puddle is an award-winning writer, speaker, husband and father who hosts the popular interview show, The Puddcast. Having travelled the world and lived in many nations, Jonathan teaches from a culturally rich & spiritually inclusive framework. He writes about freedom, hope and sacrificial love at jonathanpuddle.com. Jonathan and his family reside in Ontario, Canada where they pastor families and children at a thriving community church.
If you're anything like me, you've tried to love God and love others without thinking too much about yourself. Wanting to avoid self-centeredness, I doubted myself and condemned myself-I even hated myself-until I noticed the ancient words of Mark 12:31, "Love your neighbour as yourself." A gentle whisper led me in a new direction and everything in my life began to change.
In You Are Enough, Jonathan Puddle teaches how to:
- Love your body and embrace the space you take up.
- Discern God's presence and feel safe with your creator.
- Get to know your emotions and inner life.
- Encounter love in the most scarred, scared, and sacred places of your heart.
- Love your whole self the way God does, with gentleness and compassion.
Drawing from Scripture, trauma-informed therapy, Christian inner-healing, breathing and embodiment exercises, and silent prayer & contemplative spirituality, You Are Enough is a holistic healing journey towards abundant life. Daily readings are easy to understand, with practical exercises to help you embrace the truth of your beloved-ness in every part of your mind, body, soul and spirit.
Features guided audio and video meditations to take your journey to the next level.
"This simple yet profound devotional will help you grow in love as it reveals unhealthy thinking, replacing it with truth." - Kim Walker-Smith, Jesus Culture
"I anticipate deep heart healing and a new sense of wholeness for everyone who embraces Jonathan's gentle meditations." - Brad Jersak (PhD), theologian and author
"Practical and poignant, personal and scriptural, this devotional packs a punch!" - Danielle Strickland, spiritual leader, justice advocate and author
Jonathan Puddle is an award-winning writer, speaker, husband and father who hosts the popular interview show, The Puddcast. Having travelled the world and lived in many nations, Jonathan teaches from a culturally rich & spiritually inclusive framework. He writes about freedom, hope and sacrificial love at jonathanpuddle.com. Jonathan and his family reside in Ontario, Canada where they pastor families and children at a thriving community church.
222 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2020
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About the author
Jonathan Puddle
4 books27 followersJonathan is passionate about helping people live in abundant freedom and self-sacrificial love. A writer and popular podcast host, Jonathan and his wife also pastor children at a thriving community church in Kitchener, Ontario. Having spent much of his career in non-profit leadership, Jonathan is a visionary thinker with a strategic mind, who is just as comfortable speaking to large audiences as he is mentoring one-on-one. Raised by missionary parents, living in five countries and being exposed to a broad range of faith traditions, Jonathan teaches from a rich and inclusive Christian framework. A father of three, Jonathan loves dance music, science fiction, good food, dark beer, and long walks on the beach. He was born in New Zealand, so he does know a few things about beaches.
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August 19, 2020
Full disclosure: I wrote this book. And I think you should most definitely read it.
September 7, 2020
I typically avoid devotional books as I find them superficial and idealistic. Not so with You Are Enough by Jonathan Puddle, this was refreshingly relatable and easily able to be put in the context of real life. The book is profoundly transformative and rich in the language of love. If you’d like to have shame completely removed from your human condition and be introduced to the tender affection God has for humanity, then you want to move through this book. I was hooked from day 1!
September 10, 2022
It's hard to put into words how I feel about this book (but trust me its all positive) as I find it easier to reflect on 'story' books rather than those of teaching. I'd been looking for more Christian books that would help me work on my self image and self worth and the second I saw the title of this with the words "learning to love yourself the way God does" sold it to me. The book is broken down into 30 days, with quotes, Bible verses, scenarios, teachings and Jonathan's own experiences and at the end of each day there's a meditation. I've thoroughly worked through each page, each lesson and each meditation, some days repeating and sometimes taking a break. I've got copious notes and page tabs throughout! Early on I did actually post it on Twitter and post that I wasn't quite seeing my "enoughness" as yet and got the loveliest message of encouragement from the author Jonathan, which really was a source of support. I've completed the book and put it to one side for now, but most definitely will pick it back up in a month or two as the teaching and methodology really is good. The meditations were fairly easy to follow but hard to obviously read and then do, thankfully they were also on Jonathan's YouTube. The first half or so of the meditations were much easier for me to connect with but I did struggle with some nearer the end and found them quite difficult. I'm hoping next time around and when I've got more experienced at meditating that they will become easier as I did see some amazing pictures some nights. Overall a great book for anyone who like me has always struggled with the Bible verse to love others as you love yourself! The loving others is the easy bit!!
September 21, 2020
Life Changing
This book has the potential to help change your life. Bringing together multiple branches of modern insight rooted in ancient wisdom, You Are Enough will surely bear much good fruit for those who sincerely engage in the simple yet profound meditational practices within.
The manageable pace allows you to journey at your own pace, making this book as practical as it is artful. Jonathan has charted a beautiful and challenging path that is an authentic expression of his own faith journey. This book isn't just full of good ideas. It's overflowing with tried and tested wisdom, forged in the crucible of Christ-centred cruciform discipleship.
You Are Enough is a rare book, one of a select few that I truly believe everyone could benefit from reading.
This book has the potential to help change your life. Bringing together multiple branches of modern insight rooted in ancient wisdom, You Are Enough will surely bear much good fruit for those who sincerely engage in the simple yet profound meditational practices within.
The manageable pace allows you to journey at your own pace, making this book as practical as it is artful. Jonathan has charted a beautiful and challenging path that is an authentic expression of his own faith journey. This book isn't just full of good ideas. It's overflowing with tried and tested wisdom, forged in the crucible of Christ-centred cruciform discipleship.
You Are Enough is a rare book, one of a select few that I truly believe everyone could benefit from reading.
September 7, 2020
Beautifully written. The audio meditations are a lovely bonus. Highly recommended.
September 2, 2020
Set on a journey of self-discovery with Jonathan's well timed and deeply impactful devotional.
September 12, 2020
An incredible 30 day devotional that walks you through deep heart healing 🙌🙏🏻
September 8, 2020
Hits me in the heart every time!!
October 10, 2020
“Before you ever accomplished anything or tried to become anyone, you were already enough for God.”
I’m so excited for this beautiful 30-day devotional to be released into the world. I am generally not a devotional person, but this one is something special. Informed by some of my favorite spiritual teachers, authors, and therapists, Jonathan shares from his personal experiences of deep spiritual healing. He doesn’t preach at the reader but instead invites us along on a journey to encounter Jesus, Himself, through reading, Scripture, and guided meditations. I love that he has recorded readings of the guided meditations to go along with the book (available for free on his website!). This is a simple but profound exercise in learning to accept our own belovedness so that we might experience healing in relationship with God, self, and others.
I’m so excited for this beautiful 30-day devotional to be released into the world. I am generally not a devotional person, but this one is something special. Informed by some of my favorite spiritual teachers, authors, and therapists, Jonathan shares from his personal experiences of deep spiritual healing. He doesn’t preach at the reader but instead invites us along on a journey to encounter Jesus, Himself, through reading, Scripture, and guided meditations. I love that he has recorded readings of the guided meditations to go along with the book (available for free on his website!). This is a simple but profound exercise in learning to accept our own belovedness so that we might experience healing in relationship with God, self, and others.
December 31, 2020
Devotional that combines the science of trauma therapy with theology and practice of meditation.
September 26, 2021
This short book of 30-daily readings was a continuation of a journey I've been on for 2+ years to be gentler with myself and live in the grace and live of God. Each day includes a guided meditation through which the Lord revealed much to me. Much of the work was familiar to me having done "parts work" with my therapist (Internal Family Systems). It was presented in an accessible format.
Each day begins with a reading introducing the topic before the meditation. I did struggle with the author's theology on 2 of the chapters in particular. This idea that "you are enough" is encapsulated in God's incredible love for us right as we are. But He is still a Holy God who cannot be in the presence of my sin. It is only by the righteousness and blood of Jesus that I can come near. He both loves me as I am and calls me beloved, and also loves me too much to want me to stay there in my brokenness. This juxtaposition was not clearly articulated in some points causing me to disagree with the author. However, I was fully able to use the meditations in my prayer time despite these concerns.
Each day begins with a reading introducing the topic before the meditation. I did struggle with the author's theology on 2 of the chapters in particular. This idea that "you are enough" is encapsulated in God's incredible love for us right as we are. But He is still a Holy God who cannot be in the presence of my sin. It is only by the righteousness and blood of Jesus that I can come near. He both loves me as I am and calls me beloved, and also loves me too much to want me to stay there in my brokenness. This juxtaposition was not clearly articulated in some points causing me to disagree with the author. However, I was fully able to use the meditations in my prayer time despite these concerns.
September 15, 2021
I heard about this book via a couple of different podcasts I listen to, and then I heard an interview with the author, and thought I'd give it a go.
At first I was really awkward with it, having never tried 'talking with my inner self' or any such nonsense before.
So I had to go over a few days more than once. While I'm not 100% in line with everything in the book I can say, hand on heart it has opened me up to changes, it helped me know the God I instinctively knew, but church leaders did not always teach.
I'm going to re-read so that should tell you that it's a good book.
It's easy read, and if you haven't read anything like this, contemplative spirituality stuff, it's good, and Christ focused.
I could see why some people worry about things like this because it would be very easy to warp this book by not inviting Jesus in, but the author is always clear about ensuring that you do.
At first I was really awkward with it, having never tried 'talking with my inner self' or any such nonsense before.
So I had to go over a few days more than once. While I'm not 100% in line with everything in the book I can say, hand on heart it has opened me up to changes, it helped me know the God I instinctively knew, but church leaders did not always teach.
I'm going to re-read so that should tell you that it's a good book.
It's easy read, and if you haven't read anything like this, contemplative spirituality stuff, it's good, and Christ focused.
I could see why some people worry about things like this because it would be very easy to warp this book by not inviting Jesus in, but the author is always clear about ensuring that you do.
January 25, 2021
this book was so beautifully written. It draws from scripture, trauma informed therapeutic practices, breathing exercises, silent prayer, and a big component is learning about internal family systems. As someone who already knew about internal family systems I found the practices to feel more natural than if you have never done them before. Internal family systems changed my life so I definitely recommend genuinely participating in the meditative practices at the end of each daily reading. (Bonus: the recorded meditations are free on Spotify so you can either read them in the book or let Jonathan guide you through them in audio form). I will be referencing back to this again for sure!
May 19, 2021
Not at all what I expected...the emphasis on embodiment and the body of God plus the freedom to imagine inhaling God...wow -- truly a powerful book especially during COVID when screen time is disembodied time.
August 16, 2021
Excellent book. The daily devotions cover many different areas of growth and healing from our inner child to our adult self. The author uses many stories and situations that I felt I could relate to personally.
April 14, 2021
This is exactly what I needed to read in this time. The gospel to my soul in a way I never heard before - beautiful truth woven with real, practical spiritual and therapeutic practices.
January 29, 2022
2021 Best Indie Book Award Winner!
September 24, 2023
Excellent book! Every day I learned something new about myself. I want to give a copy to everyone I know.
July 5, 2021
Jonathan Puddle's 30-day devotional is inviting, refreshing and calming. Rather than a typical devotional book with some quick scripture and a story to match, we are invited into a sacred space for meditation, to enter the stillness with our creator. The methods the author uses in this book are beneficial to the nervous system keeping the whole person in mind. I have learned to breathe deeply, enter the calm, and to embrace who I am, as God sees me--fully known, fully loved, enough.
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