True You
Letting Go of Your False Self to Uncover the Person God Created

Ever since I began reading this book, I keep finding myself looking up at the trees. Not because this is a book about trees, but because the trees hold compelling truths about what it means to live as my essential self. Rich with metaphor and incisive wisdom, Michelle DeRusha uses words as if they a......more

An encouraging, timely, important read. DeRusha's voice was reminiscent of Henri Nouwen, full of grace and kindness. Time for some pruning.......more

This book addresses what so many of us need to remember: the masks we put on to please ourselves and others don't fool God. Instead, they create distance in all our relationships, along with spiritual unease and anxiety in heart, mind, and soul. Using the gardening metaphor of pruning and toughing p......more

Michelle DeRusha takes on one of modern society’s biggest lies in her latest book—the badge of busyness. “Part of our need to be busy and productive comes from our desire to be valued and known,” she says. “If we are busy, we must be needed, and if we are needed, we must be important.” But wearing t......more

January 1 is the perfect release date for this book. At a time when we're "turning over a new leaf" or hoping for a fresh start, I can't think of a better book to be our companion on that journey. Michelle DeRusha's writing is invitational, refreshing, honest, and vulnerable. Slowly, as the words op......more