a conversation about habitual disconnect, desire, & the pursuit of Home

In this third conversation in our series on belonging, Sarah talks with Chuck DeGroat (professor, licensed therapist, & author of Healing What’s Within) about how so many of us live “habitually disconnected.” Together, they explore what it might look like to pay attention to our internal landscape and longings as a means of finding our way back home to ourselves, to God, and to each other.

Episode Notes

• Healing What’s Within: Coming Home to Yourself—and to God—When You’re Wounded, Weary, & Wandering by Chuck DeGroat (releases October 8, 2024) 

• The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen

• C.S. Lewis

• Larry Crabb

• St. Augustine: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in God.”

• The Homing Instinct by Bernd Heinrich

• “What a long time it can take to become the person one has always been.” –Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak

• Thomas Merton

• Evagrius Ponticus

• John Cassian

• St. Augustine, Confessions

• Falling into Goodness, a Lenten devotional by Chuck DeGroat

• Diane Langberg

Connect with Chuck

• Website: ChuckDeGroat.net

• Book: Healing What’s Within (releases October 8, 2024; available for preorder)

• X: @chuckdegroat

• Threads: @chuckdegroat

• Instagram: @chuckdegroat 

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