Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

"Live your truth." "Follow your heart." "You are enough." These phrases saturate modern culture and feel inspiring right up until they don't work. Alisa Childers argues they don't work because they aren't true. In Live Your Truth and Other Lies, Childers dismantles the most pervasive cultural mantras of our era with both intellectual rigor and personal honesty, showing how each quietly disconnects people from objective reality, encourages a suffocating focus on the self, and generates exactly the anxiety and exhaustion it claims to cure. Using Scripture as the standard, she offers an alternative vision: not the exhausting performance of authentic self-expression but the restful freedom of being known and loved by a God whose truth doesn't shift with the cultural moment. For Christians who feel something is off in the messages surrounding them, this book names what it is.