For anyone seeking a truer perspective of life, You Are Who God Says You Are: 8 Steps to Overcoming the Past by Jean A. Sturgill is an enlightening text that serves as a workbook to read and study the Bible and one's personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Broken into eight steps with titles such as "FEAR: Faith and the Power to Overcome," "LOVE: Yourself and Others," and "SOUND MIND: Knowing Who God Says You Are," the author unearths the tools to begin making a difference. By helping readers set themselves up to succeed through a series of meaningful journaling exercises and prompted Bible studies, she exacts a space to free one's mind from the past to become what God expects and what He wants. To help define and articulate one's relationship with Jesus, the author takes readers down a path of self-awareness and enlightenment for which the reader will be grateful.