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Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

traded our longing to belong for the quick fix of fitting in. We’ve traded wholeness for perfectionism. The need to belong is in our DNA, a primitive instinct that roots us in community, identity, and purpose. But in trading belonging for the fix of fitting in, we’ve fractured our very selves, cutting ourselves into pieces for the roles we think we’re supposed to play, each with a unique mask we think we’re supposed to wear. And this inner division creates a fertile soil in which symptoms like exhaustion,