TY - BOOK AU - DeGroat,Chuck TI - Wholeheartedness: busyness, exhaustion, and healing the divided self SN - 9780802872708 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BT713.D321.W465 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company KW - Self KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Christian life N1 - 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 N2 - "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 -- ER -