Healing What’s Within is the book for those courageous and vulnerable enough to risk becoming acquainted with themselves in order to become themselves. And in Chuck DeGroat we have a guide of wisdom and humility.

CURT THOMPSON, MD, psychiatrist and author of The Deepest Place and The Soul of Shame

This book is a beautiful resource shaped not only by Chuck’s clinical expertise and pastoral heart but also by his own hard-earned lived experience.

AUNDI KOLBER, MA, LPC, therapist and author of Try Softer and Strong like Water

Healing What’s Within invites you to address the paths and voices that have taken you away from your true home and reorients you to what is the delectable delight you were meant to know as shalom.

DAN B. ALLENDER, PHD, professor of counseling psychology and founding president, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology

I could pick so many words in Healing What’s Within that ministered to my soul. But I choose just two now: redemptive remembering. Those healing words gently guided me as Chuck reminded me of how our extraordinarily kind and loving God is looking for me.

LAURA BARRINGER, advocate and coauthor of A Church Called Tov and Pivot

Drawing on his personal, pastoral, and counseling experience, Chuck DeGroat offers a kind invitation toward emotional and spiritual healing, providing stories, practices, and resources to allow for whole-person engagement.

MANDY SMITH, pastor and author of Unfettered and Confessions of an Amateur Saint

In Healing What’s Within, we are invited to acknowledge wounds, rediscover faith, and embark on a path of genuine restoration. This is a courageous and compassionate exploration of a path to great healing forged by God’s pursuit.

JUSTIN S. HOLCOMB, Episcopal bishop, seminary professor, and author

With exceptional tenderness, breathtaking human stories, theological depth, and therapeutic insight comes Healing What’s Within. Really, this manifesto of healing is like finding that wise sage you’ve been desperate to have a conversation with.

DAN WHITE JR., cofounder of The Kineo Center and author of Love over Fear

I find Chuck to be an effective healer based on a rare combination of practical wisdom, insightful empathy, and tender pastoral affection. All this shines through in Healing What’s Within. I heartily recommend it.

BISHOP TODD HUNTER, Anglican bishop and author of Deep Peace

Healing What’s Within is a practical guide on how to develop a holistic spirituality and practice that deals with real-world, real-person issues. This book is a gift to those who long for and thirst for righteousness.

MATT TEBBE, coauthor of Having the Mind of Christ and copastor at The Table, Indianapolis

Beyond making space for trauma, Chuck offers a healing path through it. Instead of seeing the Fall as God’s rejection that activates our protective strategies, Chuck reminds us that God’s connective pursuit is what heals the hurt within.

GEOFF HOLSCLAW, PHD, coauthor of Does God Really Like Me? and cohost of the ...

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About Healing What’s Within: Coming Home to Yourself—and to God—When You're Wounded, Weary, and Wandering

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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