Matthew Emerzian

You Matter by Matthew Emerzian is a very mis-marketed book, in my personal opinion.

This book was listed as a "Self-Help" book so I was super intrigued by it. The title alone made me feel like I was gonna be pumped up Richard Simmons style by a dude who figured out how to love himself. Yeah... not so much.

This book is more about why Matthew Emerzian matters and how he became a "better" person. 95% of this book is just hearing his story and how he did all the amazing things he's done in his life. There are great journal prompts and thought keys, but those are only about 1 page per chapter at most. Those were where this book did, the Matthew Emerzian story didn't make sense for this book. Sure, you can have a whole bunch of testimonies for why things worked, but that should only be the example not the whole story.

If Matthew made this book to boast about how awesome he is and why he thinks he's a good person, then this book is perfect! If this was actually designed as a self help book, then it's quite the marketing failure. I can't see how people will get help out of it other than the journal blurbs. But those are only maybe 20 pages of the book... So can this really be labelled as self help?

I don't recommend it unless you're looking for a biography bragging about the author with a pinch of self help in it.

One out of five stars.

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.… (mais)