Overlooked: Finding Your Worth When You Feel All Alone
Maybe you didn’t read the word on the front cover. Maybe you felt it. You’re not alone. I feel it too.
While most of us don’t want to admit it, we crave attention. Our social media–obsessed society is proof that people everywhere want to be seen. But this self-promoting system leaves many women feeling overlooked. In Overlooked, Whitney Akin helps you discover how the human need for attention and approval is God’s intentional design and encourages you to live seen by the God who loves you. Overlooked guides you into a deeper understanding of El Roi, the God Who Sees, through the stories of Hagar, Moses, Paul, and Jesus by uncovering the transformative power of living each day in the attention of a holy God. Overlooked offers practical ways to implement a lifestyle of living seen characterized by confidence, meekness, obedience, and a gospel perspective. You’ll learn how to use these characteristics to interact with humility and strength in the real, and digital, world around you.
When you feel forgotten and unseen, Overlooked will help you
understand why you long to be seen,
get real about the ways social media is hard on your heart,
tap into the true source of the attention and approval you long for,
and implement practical ways to trade feeling overlooked for a lifestyle of living seen.
You don’t have to live overlooked anymore.
Chapters Include: Does Anybody See Me?, Made for Attention and Approval, The God Who Sees, Locking Eyes, Learning to Live Seen, Obedience like Hagar, Meekness like Jesus, Confidence like Moses, A Gospel Perspective like Paul, Learning to Live Seen in a See-Me, Leaving a Live Seen Legacy
Published by Leafwood Publishers // ISBN 9781684261925 // $16.99 // 192 pages
What Others Are Saying About Overlooked:
Glynnis Whitwer
Author, Executive Director of Communications, Proverbs 31 Ministries
“The longing to be seen simmers in every girl’s heart from an early age. ‘Watch me, Daddy,’ she calls as she twirls in her Sunday best. This longing only grows as we do. Whitney Akin captures the unspoken thoughts of so many women who seek what feels elusive and puts into words what I’ve struggled to speak aloud. Deftly weaving biblical truth, cultural observations, and her own story, Akin will meet you in your hiding place and invite you to live seen by the One who matters most.”
Ginger Hubbard
Best-selling author of Don’t Make Me Count to Three and cohost of the Parenting with Ginger Hubbard podcast
“Overlooked is for every woman who feels unseen and undervalued. With transparency, vulnerabilityand practical truths from God’s Word, Whitney offers help to process hurt in healthy ways, combat the lies of the enemy, and walk confidently in Christ. A must-read for anyone who longs to experience the joy of living chosen and cherished by the God who sees.”
Trudy Cathy White
Ambassador, Chick-fil-A, Inc.
“With transparency and transformative perspective, Overlooked encourages readers to lift their gaze from the mire of feeling unseen to meet the eyes of El Roi, the God who sees. Whitney’s intuitive, gospel-infused writing style will challenge and inspire you to walk in this truth: you are not overlooked.”
Dorina Gilmore Young
author, speaker, podcaster
“In Overlooked, Whitney invites us to thoughtfully consider the ways we are living distracted. She gently helps readers remember they are seen by God and calls us up to see others. This book artfully weaves together real-life experiences and biblical context.”
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