Understanding Who You Are: What Your Relationships Tell You About Yourself

by Larry Crabb

In Understanding Who You Are, Dr. Larry Crabb reveals 5 key truths about people to help you look at the way you respond to relational problems and discover the underlying issues that get relationships off track. The book also gives you the tools to heal broken relationships and develop a more intimate relationship with God. Includes discussion questions.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Relationships, Counselling, Christian, Self Help

80 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Lawrence J. Crabb Jr.

Larry Crabb is a well-known Christian psychologist, conference and seminar speaker, Bible teacher, and author of more than 25 books—including his most recent, When God’s Ways Make No Sense and two Gold Medallion award-winners Inside Out and Understanding People. He is also the founder/director of NewWay Ministries & most recently his "legacy ministry", LargerStory.com. In addition to various other speaking and teaching opportunities, Crabb offers a week-long School of Spiritual Direction held each year here at The Cove and the Glen Eyrie in CO. He currently is scholar-in-residence at Colorado Christian University. Larry and his wife of 50 years, Rachael, reside near Charlotte, N.C.

Reviews

[Bayley Levine · Rating 4 out of 5]

a short but packed philosophical view on how we approach relationships with other people and God, and what that says about our own sinful nature and (lack of) trust in Him.
4/5 stars

[Ryan Jankowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

As always, Crabb's analysis of the human condition is profoundly insightful. This is a small book, but one in which you should read slowly.

[Rachel Reece · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm just going to start back at the beginning and read this one again. Never has #TheStruggleIsReal had a more apt context!

[Nicholas Varady-szabo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book/pamphlet recently for the second time with my team. I was blown away AGAIN by how profound it is. It is very short, but very deep. Crabb outlines a view of human experience different from the way we normally think about it. His central thesis is that underlying our disfunctionality in relationships and life in general is a distrust in the goodness of God, combined with a terror of isolation. He walks through five ideas about peoples, or five misconceptions about what motivates us, all fuelled by the above central theme.

If you are willing to put the effort into understanding *Understanding who you are* you will reap the rewards in your own life, and as you navigate relationships with those around you.

[John Fletcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid book but had some statements throughout the book that felt extreme and left me feeling distant. Appreciated some of the truths in the book about human behavior and desires. Would recommend for someone who would like a quick canvas on human fundamentals from a Christian perspective.

[Agatha Glowacki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of wisdom. Like a Christian version of Buddhism teaching, emphasizing inevitability of suffering.

[Pete]

Didn't have enough context, plus this is my first Larry Crabb book, so I'm not used to it. But I agreed with all his ideas, sound familiar from BHBC, Louie.

[Catherine Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

read

[Ed Gavras · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book. I always enjoy Crabb. I miss the Holy Spirit in some of his material but his analysis is impeccable.

[Jamie Bates · Rating 3 out of 5]

The font and formatting in this book made it a little different to read, not too horrible just different.
The author has a couple interesting points, and if you can find it on sale or read it from a library it's worth the time but overall not a great investment.