Through personal example, Beach demonstrates how to replace sinister self-talk with God-centered self-talk.Shelly Beach kept a full ministry schedule. Looking back, she believes she kept herself busy as an escape mechanism, a distraction from dealing with what lurked in her heart and mind. She knew that the person she put forth for others to see and the person who dominated her thoughts were not the same. She describes it as "spiritual schizophrenia." But it was during an intense time of suffering that Beach began to deal with the conflicting voices in her mind. While lying in a hospital bed, she did not have anything to distract her from the voices she heard in her mind. "A parallel awareness stirred in my thoughts," she writes. "I was arguing with myself. How strange was that? I was actually telling myself conflicting things that couldn't possibly both be true." The Silent Seduction of Self-Talk is the story of how through suffering God taught Beach how to stop silencing His voice, learn to listen to Him, and control her thoughts. Read the rest HERE
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