Face Time: Your Identity in a Selfie World
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Vine. By the time you read this, there will be new ways to engage with others on social media. It’s fun to be connected, but it’s also a lot of pressure isn’t it?
Social media constantly reminds you what others are doing, how they look, and who they are with. As you check your accounts (all the time!) it can be easy to think you aren’t measuring up. What if you don’t measure up? Do you cover it up with risky behavior, pack your calendar with more and more activities, crash diet, explore your sexuality, or experiment with cutting? It seems like other girls solve the problem in these ways, but they are still anxious, sad, and unsure of who they really are. Is there a better way to get comfortable in your own skin?
Face Time helps teen girls deal honestly and wisely with issues like body image, sex, dating, substance abuse, materialism, perfectionism, and comparison. Author Kristen Hatton, a trustworthy guide for teens, wants girls to have the deep security, value, worth, love, and acceptance they crave. But she points them in a different direction than they might expect. Instead of looking within, Hatton helps them to look up to god, the one who made them and cares for them through all the ups and downs of their lives.
In this easy-to-read guide, Kristen Hatton takes girls on a step-by-step, hope-filled journey toward understanding who they are, who loves them, and how to live out of that love every day. Face Time is fun-to-read and engaging, using fictional but true-to-life narratives and clear Christian teaching to help girls learn to recognize lies and counter those with truth.
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- Helps teen girls deal honestly and wisely with issues like body image and dating
- Points girls to the one who made them for deep security and worth
- Takes girls on a step-by-step journey toward understanding their identity and God’s love
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Your True Identity
- Chapter 1: Our Selfie World Reality
- Chapter 2: The Problem We All Face
- Chapter 3: The One Who Faced Our Mess
- Chapter 4: “Look Full in His Wonderful Face”
- Chapter 5: The Struggles We Still Face
- Part II: Facing False Identities
- Story 1: Comparisons
- Story 2: Body Image
- Story 3: Eating Disorders
- Story 4: Perfectionism
- Story 5: Materialism
- Story 6: Friends
- Story 7: Peer Pressure
- Story 8: Drinking
- Story 9: Boy “Friends”
- Story 10: Sex
- Story 11: Sexual Identity
- Story 12: Self-Harm
- Note to Self
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
As a father of teens, I often feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped with the changes that social media are making in our everyday lives. Kristen Hatton has provided a huge dose of information, wisdom, and gospel-oriented encouragement in this book. I highly recommend it.
—Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Theology, Westminster Seminary California; author of Core Christianity; cohost of the White Horse Inn
We’ve long since passed a time when socialization of our children was the limited domain of families, churches, and schools. By teenage years our children face an array of influences, not the least being the pervasive and growing impact of social media. Kristen Hatton has written a wise, winsome, and biblically informed road map to help girls navigate an online culture that can create enormous pressure and anxiety. Highly recommended.
—Tom Cannon, National Coordinator, Reformed University Fellowship
As a woman, mom, friend, and former teenage girl herself, Kristen Hatton understands the intense pressure and devastating effects of trying to measure up in a constantly changing culture. With compassion and clarity, she offers wisdom that is deeply rooted in God’s Word and God’s character. She offers practical help and real hope as she shows the reader how to find the freedom that comes only through an identity in Christ.
—Courtney Doctor, Director of Women’s Ministry at Kirk of the Hills, PCA; author of From Garden to Glory