- In a world that seems to be

increasingly self-absorbedand self-focused

Allie Beth Stuckey is pumping the brakes

and bringing that philosophy to a stop.

She says, you're notenough, and that's okay.

And even more, let's takethe focus off of ourselves.

- Welcome to Relatable, happy Monday.

- The name of her podcast is Relatable,

where Allie and her guests analyze

culture, news, politics and theology

from a Christian perspective.

Most of her audience is young women.

- Young moms, students,young professionals,

and in the world of Instagram,

where a lot of these womenspend their time online,

there is a message of selflove that is very prevalent.

And it kind of starts with this idea

that you are enough.

- Allie says he started getting emails

about this way of thinking

and questions of whether it's biblical.

- So I kind of startedlooking into the phrase

and the people who werepropagating it and the messages

and the heart behind it.

And what I found was that

while it is a well-meaning phrase,

and while it does sound good

to those of us who havestruggled with feelings

of inadequacy and insecurity,

which we really all have,

it's based on a false premise,

that you are able to beyour own sufficiency,

your own fulfillment,

that all you need for selfconfidence and therefore success,

is just the motivation

that you can muster up inside yourself.

And that according tothe biblical worldview

is simply incorrect.

God made us finite, he made us fallible.

He made us to depend on Him

and not just for our strengthto get through the day,

but ultimately, and mostimportantly, for salvation.

- In the book, Alliegoes through five myths,

centering on the idea that you are enough.

She then replaces them withthe truth of the gospel.

Allie, once reached the deadend of self love herself

in college.

She writes about breaking up with a guy

she thought she would marry.

That led to a season of trials

marked by unhealthy relationships,

over drinking and an eating disorder.

- I thought then that I wasgoing down a path of healing

and discovering myselfbecause I was doing things

that at the time, felt good to me.

And that's a message thata lot of young people hear,

that do whatever makes youhappy, do whatever feels good.

That's how you're going to heal,

that's how you're goingto discover yourself.

- Then God, took control,

bringing a Christiancounselor into her life

who helped turn Allie around

and gave her a retrospective perspective,

to now be able to help others.

Allie says, this is not abook about self obsession.

In fact, she wants tothrow out the practice

of examining how good or bad you are.

- If self obsession is acoin on one side of that,

you've got a form of narcissismthat is like self adoration.

But on the other side of that,

you have self-loathing.

What I'm suggesting is throw away

the coin of self obsession altogether

and do what Jesus calls us to do,

which is to deny ourselves,

take up our cross and follow Him.

The gospel is not only enough.

It is the only thing that is enough.

- That's what she'sdoing with her platform,

taking the focus off of herself

and putting it on Jesus,

with guidelines on howyou can do the same.

In Washington,

Jenna Browder, CBN news.