Mean Girls All Grown Up: Surviving Catty and Conniving Women

by Hayley DiMarco

Book Overview

Helps women deal with the mean of their past, understand the different kinds of mean, realize the beauty of positive friendships with other women, and more. This book contains quizzes, Bible verses,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080073100X
• ISBN13: 9780800731007
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic wake up that you are in control

This book is short and sweet, but still definitely makes you think. It is a fantastic wake up call. You are in control of yourself and how you react to the mean women in life. You can be self-aware and conquer the daily issues with ease. I highly recommend this book to all women from middle schoolers to grown women. We all have to deal with the unkind and the quick profound read helps realign our real purpose. There is also free discussion questions on her hungry planet website. Mean Girls All Grown Up Workbook & Journal: A Spiritual Guide to Surviving Mean Women Mean Girls All Grown Up: Surviving Catty and Conniving Women Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast

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Great book, accurate biblically, don't believe the lie of self-esteem!

I attended the National Women's Convention with Kay Arthur and Beth Moore as the speakers I most looked forward to hearing. Imagine my surprise when the youngest of the speakers, Hayley DiMarco knocked my socks off with her talk on mean girls. I must confess, I just got around to reading this terrific book that I picked up at the conference (along with ten others.) My husband is a seminary professor and he would back Ms. DiMarco up on her take on Luke 17:3 that was poorly represented by another reviewer (who also promoted their website in their review.) The previous reviewer focused on the scripture, "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector."(NIV) The reviewer make s a couple of weighty omissions both in her interpretation of this verse and Ms. DiMarco's view. This verse pertains to church correction. "Brother" does not mean your fellow man, it means your fellow believer. Also, DiMarco's point that man doesn't sin against you, man can only truly sin against God is taking the focus off of the ego. Jesus consistently forgave non-believers without repentance and at times without a rebuke. On the cross, Jesus said, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." Where was the rebuke? Where was the repentance before the forgiveness? Jesus consistently forgave people as a witness to God's love. In fact, in visiting the other reviewer's website they championed, it's apparent that the deeper nerve Ms. DiMarco struck was her stand against the unbiblical principle of self-esteem. In Mean Girls All Grown Up, Ms. DiMarco says the reader should get over the SECULAR psychological invention of self-esteem and embrace Jesus' and Paul's example of "the last shall be first" and recognizing "I am the greatest of all sinners" and as sinful humans, we truly don't deserve anything but death in spite of God's grace and sacrifice. In short, DiMarco champions ditching the Freud, Jung & Skinner invention of self-esteem (their attempt at filling the 'God-shaped hole' in the human heart with self-love perhaps?) and embracing the concept of God-esteem. It's "we love because Christ first loved us" not "I know God loves me but I have to love myself before I can love others." Secular psychobabble! As for the author's 'qualifications', according to her website, she ran a division of the largest Christian publishing house, speaks in front of thousands at Women of Faith events, and when Kay Arthur has a thirtysomething young woman write a foreward for one of Kay's OWN books, that's quite an endorsement from someone with such a grasp of scripture. A good bo

Selfless approach to facing mean.

In Mean Girls All Grown Up, Hayley DiMarco gives counterculture advice to women facing mean and helps diagnose the ways we can be seen as mean by others. Writing from a Christian perspective, DiMarco writes of how the culture of self-esteem and our `rights' has created a cycle of mean; `she was mean to mean first, so I was justified in getting her back.' Reminding us that "we can't change others, we can only change ourselves," DiMarco focuses the reader inward which in this reviewer's case helped point out that my drive to achieve was painting a bulls-eye on my back for women less driven. Taking time to engage these women instead of ignoring them as "non job essential" was her recommendation. For any reader uncomfortable with Christianity, I'd point you elsewhere. But if the non-religious reader acknowledges that the Bible is a book of wisdom and common sense lacking in today's selfish culture, you'll appreciate much of this book's content. This book is formatted for the `instant messaging' generation, with lots of quotes, quizzes, and features like "Top Ten Signs Your Friend Is a Mean Girl." If you prefer black serif fonts on white paper, you might be a tad overwhelmed by this book. My personal opinion is that the design was quite engaging. The article approach makes the book easily digestible and allows the reader to jump around reading chapters that apply to their current situation of mean. Also, because of the chapters having a magazine article feel rather than the traditional Chapter 1, Chapter 2 layout, linear thinkers might find the book contradictory or disjointed. I suspect that this may have been the case with a previous reviewer. DiMarco gives examples of people in the Bible that were basically doormats when it came to their personal interests and "being offended," the most notable being Paul and Jesus. The second half of the book does contain advice on how to communicate with others in situations of mean but no longer with a self-centered focus or feeling "offended." If you're wanting a book that gives you permission to think highly of yourself and put your interests and feelings above others, there are plenty other books out there on the subject. If you buy into the concept that life is not all about you, that you are "the greatest of sinners" and want to live a more selfless life focused on higher things, this is a worthy read.