Get Your Life Back

Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad

By: John Eldredge

Narrated 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.

For Such A Time As This

This book is a gift from God to the hearts of His frenzied children. I felt it before the COVID virus, I had downloaded the pause app and toyed around with slowing down, stepping away from the screen, getting out doors...and then March 2nd happened in Washington State and for the next two weeks, managing a small medical office, my soul got derailed, consumed, frenzied, harried, scared!

A very close friend sent me a podcast where John Eldridge talked with Annie F Downs about the capacity our soul has to carry life at a 3 mile an hour pace, I wasn’t created to carry the weight of all the tragedy of the world!

I KNEW God had just sent me a life line, a prescription as to how to let the peace of God reign in my heart. I have listened to the audio book, I am incrementally adding the soul care ideas John so invitingly informs the reader of. What I appreciate is that the author discovered this way because Jesus revealed it to him personally as a need for himself and the way his soul was doing. JEsus lead John to slow down, step away from the screens and social media mind numbing habits that provide “relief but not restoration”

Do real things, in the real world, with real people and things, get outdoors, garden, take a long walks, NOT HURRYING!! Pause and ask for a greater union with God. My soul has joy when I do this.

I am still working because we are essential, and all the administrative staff is pausing together! When you read the book and download the Pause App you will also experience the reset revive for your soul. We have a lot to give over and my Gods capacity to carry it ALL is getting bigger and bigger.

This book is a kind offering our God has for us in this season of pause, rest and reset. I would recommend this book to everyone desiring the peace of God in their hearts and a deeper intimacy with God.

I am off to garden and start listening through the book again as I would like for God to weave this way into the fabric of how my soul thrives.

Just what my soul needed

This book arrived right on time, just as is mentioned in the book. My soul was aching in ways I knew, but also in so many ways I was unaware of. This encounter with this book leaves me refreshed and renewed with the simple life God is calling me to - the place where my soul meets Him without reservation. What a blessing ♥️

Life changing

Practical encouragement with foundational practices to live a joy filled life. These tools will help me practice and develop into the person and character I was meant to be. I would recommend this book over and over again. Thank you. Job well done.

Loved it! Thank you John Eldredge.

Kind, forgiving, real and relatable. A way to come back to God no matter how far we might have wandered off.

God is so good! All the time.

I’m so grateful a blogger was talking about this book. It came at the perfect season, when I was feeling too busy for another book, too busy for God. It helped me reprioritize my life. I know I will listen again. May God bless you and open your heart to this beautiful offering.