Get Your Life Back

Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad

By: John Eldredge

Narrated by: John Eldredge

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

A refreshingly simple guide to recover your life.

In Get Your Life Back, New York Times best-selling author John Eldredge provides a practical, simple, and refreshing guide to taking your life back.

By practicing a few wonder­fully simple practices - or 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.

Ask yourself:

• Are you happy most of the time?
• Do you feel deeply loved?
• Are you excited about your future?
• How often do you feel lighthearted?

After listening to this book you will:

• 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

These simple practices and others are ready for the taking. You don’t need to abandon your life to get it back. Begin restoring your life here and now. Your soul will thank you for it.

Includes audiobook-exclusive commentary from John Eldredge after select chapters.

©2020 John Eldredge (P)2020 Thomas Nelson

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.

Timely

I have been meaning to listen to this book for a long time, but due to circumstances I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands, and remembered that I wanted to listen to this. I think that it had been saved for this very moment in time as it touched my soul in a way that I wouldn’t have had time to listen to before. I think the Lord for this book and this time.

Practical, Entertaining and Spiritual!

Get Your Life Back outlines several practices one can do to reinvigorate appreciation for the beauty of life, healing of hurts and restoration of soul. I highly recommend this book.

Life changing!

This book embodies and puts words to everything my soul has been longing for. It’s a true answer to months of prayer and inner questioning. It’s helped me understand what I need and gave practical steps to help implement it. Every single person in this chaotic culture needs the wisdom inside this book. The relevance of it is astounding. I just finished listening and am starting it again so that I can take notes. It’s truly a wonderful book! God bless you and yours, Mr Eldredge!

Amazing and refreshing

what a powerful book. Exactly what you needed to listen to at this stage of life and maturity. This definitely moves the needle forward in practical terms for growth and awareness.

Perfect Timing

This information is just what I needed at this time of my life, it’s definitely Divine timing!