Talk Yourself Happy: Transform Your Heart by Speaking God’s Promises

Watts, former cohost of The 700 Club, uplifts with this account of how speaking positive, life-giving affirmations in the midst of life’s most harrowing experiences can lead to deeper faith and confidence. Watts begins by detailing the events surrounding the unraveling of her marriage, her role as a single parent, and her ongoing search for a job to support herself and her son, and how these turbulent times challenged her overall happiness. She also shares with a tender transparency her struggles with inadequacy, failure, discouragement, and struggles with her faith. Waiting upon God and getting only silence forced Watts to reexamine her spirituality, a blessing in disguise that allowed her to renew her bond with Jesus. Readers will appreciate Watts’s candor as she allows outsiders to examine her inner life throughout what felt like interminably dismal circumstances. In this moving book, Watts reveals how simply speaking God’s words aloud (often and with conviction) can transform unhappiness into genuine faith-infused happiness. (Jan.)