Living Beyond Your Feelings by Joyce Meyer | Book Review

Living Beyond Your Feelings by Joyce Meyer is strictly for older Christain women, so if you don’t fit that demographic, I wouldn’t recommend this book.

Living Beyond Your Feelings was written in 2011 by Joyce Meyer. Meyer is a Christain and runs Joyce Meyer Ministries. She is a Bible teacher, author, and speaker. Born Pauline Joyce Hutchinson on June 4, 1943, Meyer married Dave Meyer on January 7, 1967, and became a Christain in 1976. Meyer was instrumental in the international charismatic movement of the Christain religion. The charismatic movement is characterized by Pentecostalism and spiritual gifts; it began in the 1960s.

People come in all shapes and sizes, and so do Christians. Meyer is a different type of Christian than I am, so it was hard for me to enjoy this book or get any wisdom out of it. Meyer’s style of religion is what I call old-school Christianity. This type is characterized by moral authoritarianism. I felt Living Beyond Your Feelings was preachy. Meyer thinks the answer to everything is prayer and inserts her words and intentions into Bible verses. It’s every complaint I have about that generation of Christianity.

Now that you know my bias, I will try to give an honest, unbiased review of this book.

The book is trying to do what I am trying to do on my blog in the emotional part of dimensional health — take a hard look at feelings and how they affect life. Meyer wants to explain in Living Beyond Your Feelings how to…