My Big Bottom Blessing: How Hating My Body Lead to Loving My Life By Teasi Cannon Book Review

In My Big Bottom Blessing, Teasi Cannon reveals intimate details about struggling with her weight. She has listened to the inner voices of “Trainer” and “Young Fat Girl” most of her life. The voices were negative thoughts that she believed about herself. She recalls like most people the pain of childhood and name calling. Her maiden is Teasi Gootee and she had to endure the effects of being bullied. When she was in sixth grade a boy started saying, “Teeeezee Goooody has a greasy bootie”. Eventually other classmates started teasing her with that saying. The cycle of comparison started to consume her life. She continued to tear herself down with negative thinking and she let her weight stop her from living her life fully and freely. God came in and started transforming her mind into his image and thoughts.

 One of the scriptures that spoke to me was:

“But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” Matthew 12:25 (Page 19)

I connected to this book because I too have had to deal with others hurtful comments about my weight. There were many times that I believed the lies from satan and the people he used to convince me that I’m not as fit and accepted as someone else is. I would recommend this book to women who are having trouble with believing the truth about what God thinks about them. God can help you overcome negative thinking by replacing the lies with His truth. Men could also read this book in order to find out what women have to face daily. As I man, I understand and I’m seeing the pressure the world is putting on women to look a certain way. This book is very well written to lead women to loving their bodies completely. The book is filled packed with scripture to mediate on, believe, and to speak out over their lives. The book also contains wonderful questions to answer after each chapter. Reading this book will assist readers in building up their self-esteem by confessing what God declares in his living word.

“I received this book for free from Worthy Publishing for this review”.

About the Author:

Teasi Cannon Teasi (pronounced Tee See) is married to her best friend, Bill Cannon, and
they have three awesome children: Carli, Ben, and Sam. Teasi has a master’s degree in
pastoral counseling from Liberty Theological Seminary, and is a sought-after speaker who
loves to help women remember who they are in Christ.





Read Chapter One:


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If you would like to purchase a copy of My Big Bottom Blessing check out the links below:

Amazon Book
http://www.amazon.com/My-Big-Bottom-Blessing-Hating/dp/1617950769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338262230&sr=1-1

Amazon Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/My-Big-Bottom-Blessing-ebook/dp/B007R3RZ7O/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1338262230&sr=1-1

Barnes & Noble Book
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-big-bottom-blessing-teasi-cannon/1110782915?ean=9781617950766&itm=1&usri=my+big+bottom+blessing

Barnes & Noble Nook
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My Big Bottom Blessing By Teasi Cannon Guest Post

Thankful for a Big Rear by Teasi Cannon

One day not long ago I was sweeping my kitchen floor in the near trance-like state of La La Land, when I was jolted to my senses by the precious voice of my 4-year-old nephew saying, “Aunt Teasi, you have a vahwee (very) big butt.”

I set my broom aside, smoothed my shirt, and calmly turned to face him.  Bright-eyed and curly-haired, he stood – completely oblivious to the fact that he had said the words no woman ever wants to hear.  And then I let him have it.  I bent down, coming only inches away from his little round face, and said, “Why…thank you!”  Then I smiled big, stood to grab my broom, and returned unscathed to the task at hand. 

A few years ago those innocently spoken words would have completely obliterated me, and rather than a thank you, might have actually incited an immature come-back such as: “Oh, yeah?  Well, you’re short and you talk funny.”   

But now, to the glory of God, moments like that are reminders to me that the miraculous has happened: I no longer hate my body (especially my back side); in fact, it has become one of the biggest blessings in my life.

Like most women (really every woman I’ve ever met), I lived years literally disgusted with what I saw in the mirror.  The territory between my ears felt like nothing short of a war zone, with battles being fought everywhere: the bathroom, the grocery store, the bedroom, even church.  I could never silence the ambush-ready community of inner critics (those hurtful thoughts we all think) that called my head home.  And I missed out on so much: parties I refused to attend because my pants were too tight, dates with my husband because of a few gained pounds, quality time with my kids.  I know I’m not alone in this.

We women have been lied to for years.  We’ve been told that our value – our very right to be seen and celebrated - is determined by our waist-to-hip ratio or the proportions of our facial features, and that’s just not true.  Our value is determined by the only One who really knows it: our God. 

After hitting my head hard on the floor of my personal pit of despair, I slowly began my journey toward believing that.  One inch at a time of healing, truth, and righteous anger led me to a life-saving realization: All those years I was desperate to change how I looked, God was desperate to change how I see.  And He did.

Truth is, if God can make a prostitute the great grandmother of the Messiah, turn water into wine, and make blind men see; don’t you think He can turn a big bottom – or a big nose - or bird-thin legs – or whatever it is you hate – into a blessing.  He did it for me, and I’m so ridiculously happy about the journey that I wrote a book about it. 

Check out Teasi Cannon's Interview about My Big Bottom Blessing:

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If you would like to purchase a copy of My Big Bottom Blessing check out the links below:

Amazon Book
http://www.amazon.com/My-Big-Bottom-Blessing-Hating/dp/1617950769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338262230&sr=1-1 

Amazon Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/My-Big-Bottom-Blessing-ebook/dp/B007R3RZ7O/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1338262230&sr=1-1

Barnes & Noble Book
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-big-bottom-blessing-teasi-cannon/1110782915?ean=9781617950766&itm=1&usri=my+big+bottom+blessing

Barnes & Noble Nook
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-big-bottom-blessing-teasi-cannon/1110782915?ean=9781617950919&itm=1&usri=my+big+bottom+blessing

Check back for my review soon!