Healing What’s Within
Coming Home to Yourself—and to God—When You're Wounded, Weary, and Wandering
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
We can’t always control what happens to us. But we can discover how to heal the hidden hurt it leaves behind.
If you’re like many of us, you carry a weight of buried pain. Despite looking put together on the outside, you feel secretly fractured within. While you appear strong and resilient on the outside, inside a storm brews of all the ways you’ve been hurt or harmed. There’s a constant churn of unprocessed feelings of shame, anger, grief, or loneliness. And your body tells the story of its struggles in a myriad of aches and ailments. Little by little, you find yourself becoming disconnected from who you truly are. Not knowing what to do with your suffering and fearing you'll be hurt again, you’ve learned to cope, to numb and suppress the ache within.
It doesn’t have to be this way. In Healing What’s Within, therapist and professor Chuck DeGroat invites you on a compassionate journey inward to return and retune to the life God created you to live. Along the way, you will discover how to:
• Gently consider and confront what’s keeping you stuck and blocking the path to joy and flourishing
• Better understand the relationship between your body and your emotions
• Experience God as a compassionate witness to your trauma—and his unconditional kindness to wherever you find yourself
• Discover real rest and renewal as you reconnect with God, others, and yourself.
It’s never too late to start healing. God’s heart is always ready to help you find your way Home.
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DeGroat (When Narcissism Comes to Church), a pastoral care professor at Western Theological Seminary, grounds this empathetic meditation on "reconnecting" with oneself in moments of crisis on the biblical account of Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Like much of scripture, the story is on its face one of "alienation and exile," as Adam and Eve, riddled with anxiety and shame, are "interrogated" by God. But when they're framed compassionately, DeGroat suggests, the questions God asks can guide one through a process of self-examination and healing. For example, "where are you?" is an invitation to take stock of one's life and suffering; "who told you?" is a call to recognize past pains that block connection to God; and "have you eaten from the tree?" is an encouragement to tap into a "deep hunger" for meaning that often gets filled with superficial coping mechanisms like binge eating and redirect it to seeking "union and communion with God." Buttressed by therapeutic insight, reflection exercises, and suggested practices including yoga and breath work, DeGroat's creative and sympathetic interpretation recasts the fall as a story defined by both sin and the promise of "restoration and redemption." Christians seeking spiritual and emotional succor should take note.
