Week 4: Chapter 3 — Kindness Toward Yourself

1.Eldredge argues that most people are chronically unkind to themselves — overcommitting, under-sleeping, ignoring their own needs, and speaking to themselves in ways they would never speak to a friend. Does this describe you? What form does self-unkindness most often take in your life?

2.He reframes self-kindness not as selfishness or self-indulgence but as stewardship of the person God made you to be. How does that reframe change the moral weight of the conversation? Does it make it easier or harder to actually practice?

3.Eldredge points out that many high-capacity, faithful people wear their depletion as a badge of honor — equating busyness with faithfulness and exhaustion with sacrifice. Where have you seen this in Christian culture, and where have you internalized it yourself?