Soul Care to Save Your Life: How Radical Honesty Leads to Real Healing

by Manda Carpenter, Morgan Harper Nichols (Foreword by)

Overview

"Manda invites you in and tells the whole truth, and you feel welcomed, seen, and changed. Soul Care to Save Your Life lives up to everything it promises and more."—Annie F. Downs, New York Times bestselling author of That Sounds Fun

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In our image-conscious culture, life can become a never-ending performance. The perfection we feel pressured to project to those in our social sphere comes at the expense of our emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In the end, we are left exhausted and unfulfilled. How do we flip the script and feed ourselves rather than simply adding to our feeds?

In Soul Care to Save Your Life, author, speaker, and recovering performer Manda Carpenter offers an invitation to shift your focus from performing to purposeful living from the inside out. In this book she guides you on a three-part journey to

- identify the habits that are holding you back
- take ownership of your path to growth
- embrace practices of soul care for your well-being

It's time to drop the façade of the picture-perfect life and instead get radically honest in order to heal and embrace the confidence that comes from knowing and loving your whole self, no filter needed.


"This book is a breath of fresh air. Freedom lives within these pages."—Nona Jones, business executive, international speaker, and bestselling author of Success from the Inside Out

"Raw and practical. Anyone who is ready for a future that looks different from your past will find this book catalytic and relevant."—Tim Stevens, executive pastor, Willow Creek Community Church

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781540902139
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/09/2022
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Manda Carpenter is a writer, a speaker, and an advocate committed to helping women grow in their relationships with God, self, and others. She is a neighbor, question-asker, and cheerleader of the underdog. Manda and her husband, Eric, are foster parents and hosts of A Longer Table Podcast. They live with their son, Shia, in Los Angeles, California. For more, check out @mandacarpenter on Instagram and www.mandacarpenter.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword Morgan Harper Nichols 13

1 My Hidden Secret 15

Soul Care Practice No. 1: Identify your hidden secrets.

2 Coming Clean 29

Soul Care Practice No. 2: Develop a habit of confession.

3 What's Really Going On 47

Soul Care Practice No. 3: Dig a layer deeper to find the root.

4 The One Thing That Changes Everything 59

Soul Care Practice No. 4: Give and receive grace generously.

5 You Are Not the Only One 75

Soul Care Practice No. 5: Embrace embarrassment for the sake of freedom.

6 Impressing Is Exhausting 87

Soul Care Practice No. 6: Live in a rhythm of real.

7 You Are Already Good 105

Soul Care Practice No. 7: Ground yourself in the good.

8 Autopilot 117

Soul Care Practice No. 8: Exercise mindfulness.

9 All the Things We Cannot See 129

Soul Care Practice No. 9: Invest in your unseen self.

10 It's Not Them, It's You 141

Soul Care Practice No. 10: Take ownership consistently.

11 What Dreams Are Made Of 153

Soul Care Practice No. 11: Create sustainable rhythms.

12 The Question You Should Be Asking 165

Soul Care Practice No. 12: Recognize what you leave in your wake.

13 Recipe for a Life Well Lived 177

Soul Care Practice No. 13: Become insatiably curious.

14 Growth Doesn't Happen by Accident 191

Soul Care Practice No. 14: Match your will with your want.

15 Turn the Lights On 199

Soul Care Practice No. 15: Stay in the light.

Acknowledgments 213

Notes 217

About the Author 219