Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad

By John Eldredge

Find your way through the mess to embrace the fulfilling life you've always dreamed of. Join New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge as he shares practical, simple, and refreshing tips with you for living fully. How would you say you are doing these days? Are you happy most of the time? Do you feel deeply loved? Are you excited about your future? How often do you feel lighthearted? These questions almost seem unfair. Life is so hard on all of us, rough on our humanity. We live in soul-scorching times. The mad pace of it all, the number of demands on our time and energy, and the overwhelming torrent of information coming at us 24-7 have left us all ragged, wrung-out, and emptied. This isn't the life we want, but how do we get off the roller coaster? In Get Your Life Back, John Eldredge shows you how to move forward into the life you so desperately need. By incorporating a few simple practices--what John calls "graces"--you can begin to recover your soul, disentangle from the tragedies of this broken world, and discover the restorative power of beauty. These simple practices are yours for the taking. You don't need to abandon your life to get it back--in fact, John shares that you can start restoring your life here and now. Get Your Life Back will give you the tools you need to: - Learn how to insert the One Minute Pause into your day - Begin practicing "benevolent detachment" and truly let it all go - Offer kindness toward yourself in the choices you make - Drink in the simple beauty available to you every day - Take realistic steps to unplug from technology overload God wants to strengthen and renew your soul, and Jesus longs to give you more of himself. The world may be harsh, but God is gentle; he knows what your daily life is like. All we need to do is put ourselves in places that allow us to receive his help. You can live freely and lightly. Let Get Your Life Back show you how. Your soul will thank you for it.

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Published Sep 14, 2021

256 pages

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Nellita23
10/10 stars
This a great book with lots of practical ways to slow down your life.
Studies are showing that the assault if social media on our lives is very unhealthy.

John has many helpful suggestions such as the one minute pause. He recommends a couple times a day to just stop what you are doing. Just think.

Another practice he suggests is benevolent detachment. Instead of obsessing or mulling something over and over, his suggestion is to say out loud," I give this,name the thing, to you Lord. It's now in your hands. I am not going to think about it." You might picture actually giving it over to the Lord. You know you have released it when there is a calmness in you.

What he wants the reader to do, is to make space/time in their life for God to come in and have relationship with the reader.