The Art of Leadership Network.

And then if you even use religion as a narcotic, that'll just be another thing that numbs you to your actual feelings by all of these things that were preached that are preached into us.

Faith it till you make it. Faith over feelings. All I think with good intentions, but keep us from really true healing.

Helping you design your roadmap to wholeness from the inside out.

This is Win Today.

And now, here's your host, Christopher Cook.

Hey, you guys, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for joining me this week. You know,

in the last week I've heard from a lot of you. And interestingly, the theme is this. Chris,

I'm burned out and I'm exhausted by the striving. You, like many people, have read the books.

You've been to therapy. You've learned how to manage your image just enough

to keep moving. But if you're being honest with me right now in this moment, I bet you still feel

empty. You still feel unknown and maybe even the intimacy you long for with the Lord and with

the people in your life feels completely out of reach. Why? Well, I think because you've

made peace with performing. You've built your life around what looks strong instead of what's actually

whole. I want to say that again. Too many of us build our lives around what looks strong and capable instead of what's actually

whole and every time your image then starts to crack guess what we do we all do it we reach for

control instead of surrender if you've read my book healing what You Can't Erase, you know that my take on

the first step into transformation and wholeness begins with surrender, not giving up, it's giving

in to a process of confrontation that will lead to transformation from the inside out. But we've got to

say, hey, I'm done living according to my own strength

and by my own insight and understanding. I'm done propping up in image. I'm done trying to survive

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