Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and this is the first episode of season five.

Last year John Eldridge wrote a book called Get Your Life Back.

And in today's episode, John and I talk about my favorite parts of his book.

In short, we talk about simple everyday practices that will help you get your life back.

Now, why is this important? Because the pace of modern Western life, even in the midst of COVID, often borders on madness.

It doesn't feel like madness for many of us because we've lived life at this pace for so long.

The pace just feels normal.

But the human heart was not designed to operate at 5,000 RPMs all the time.

It wasn't designed to carry the weight that many of us carry.

Enjoy my conversation with John.

Okay, I'm here with John Eldridge. John, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks Adam. Good to talk with you today.

We're going to focus our conversation on a book that you recently wrote called Get Your Life Back.

But before we do that, since this podcast is about story, trauma, therapy,

why don't you share a little bit about like how did you personally get interested in story

and in your story in particular?

I think I've always been intrigued about the life of the heart.

But for me, it was early 30s, young dad, young kids, and I started blowing up at them.

Like I had this anger thing come out, literally spilled milk at the table,

just small, nothing stuff, and there would just be this rage.

And I could manage my way of doing life in my 20s

because I wasn't really affecting other people that directly.

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