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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...

us. We learn by un-learning, by stumbling and falling into the very thing we attempted to gain on our own terms. This, I believe, is the deep wisdom of my Christian tradition. Like love, wholeness is discovered in a thousand disappointments, embarrassments, and missteps. It’s discovered as our egos are shattered in the inviting presence of Another, One who calls us to belong. It’s experienced as a unity within ourselves and with our world that is indescribably satisfying. While I sought to master