Wholeheartedness : busyness, exhaustion, and healing the divided self /

DeGroat, Chuck.

Wholeheartedness : busyness, exhaustion, and healing the divided self / [print] Chuck DeGroat. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016. - viii, 200 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Feeling pulled in a thousand different directions -- Perfecting ourselves to death and learning to embrace imperfection -- Using our brains: the neurobiology of wholeness -- Awakening to wholeness -- Awakening to our lives: a poetic invitation -- Becoming holy without becoming exhausted -- Understanding our whole story -- Experiencing wholeness -- Returning to our core, recovering our true self -- Cultivating wholeness amid our scattered selves -- Embracing sweet communion.

"I'm being pulled in a thousand different directions." As a therapist, Chuck DeGroat hears that line all the time. "I hear it from students and software developers," he says. "I hear it from spiritual leaders and coffee baristas. And I hear it from my own inner self." We all feel that nasty pull to and fro, the frantic busyness that exhausts us and threatens to undo us. And we all think we know the solution --

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Self--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christian life.

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