Over It: Forgetting Who You’re Expected to Be and Becoming Who You Already Are by Kelsey Grimm Book Review

In Over It, Kelsey Grimm is determined to help readers to overcome their expectations that are holding them back from living their lives. Many people are dragged down by feeling they aren’t enough and they broke down by their pasts. She explained how she is over it and she described how she was able to deal with her own past and move forward. She first encouraged readers to think of their “it” and what this is that is holding them back from living. These can include: betrayal, dark secrets, diagnosis of a disease, lost dream, addiction, body image issues, and much more. 

 

 

In the book, she opened up about how she grew up as a pastor kid and how she started singing. She shared how she learned at an early age the expectations that was placed upon her. In college, she thought she would be able to perform and sing whatever she desires. But the music program was more classically inclined. She failed at every single audition and wasn’t ever picked because she wouldn’t fit into the classically mole. She explained how before college that she was always told she was special and that she could sing. She had high dreams of becoming a singer. Instead, she was getting told in not so many words that she wasn’t good enough. She revealed how she met a boy that forever changed her life. He abused her mentally and physically and, in the book, she opened up about some of the details. She also explained how she began to develop more of a personal relationship with Christ. She also revealed a personal story about how she considered killing herself when she was at an all-time low in her life. She also opened up about how she became an artist with her husband, Caleb and they have formed Caleb+Kelsey. 

 

 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is over it and all of the expectations that ourselves and others have place on us. This book is more geared towards woman but men could always benefit from the message enclosed in this book. I immensely loved how open she was in sharing some of her painful past about her past relationships. She described the horrible events with grace and how she was eventually able to give forgiveness. I also appreciated how she explained how she was saved from suicide thoughts and how she hit rock bottom and was able to redirect her life. I loved how she shared how she developed more of a personal relationship with Christ. She was able to seek healing, get counseling, and break free from the expectations that are holding us back from living openly and freely.  

 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of Over It, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Over-Forgetting-Expected-Becoming-Already/dp/1546015663/