Week 7: Chapter 6 — Caring for Yourself Like Someone You Love

1.Eldredge returns to the theme of self-care and pushes it further into the territory of self-compassion — treating ourselves the way we would treat a dear friend who was struggling. Who in your life do you tend to treat with more grace than you treat yourself? What would it look like to extend even a fraction of that grace inward?

2.He argues that many of us have an inner critic that is brutal, relentless, and utterly unlike the voice of Jesus — and that we've learned to mistake that voice for holiness or high standards. How do you distinguish between healthy conviction and the destructive inner critic? How do they feel different?

3.Eldredge emphasizes the importance of sleep, hydration, eating well, and physical care as genuinely spiritual practices — not self-indulgence but stewardship. How comfortable are you with framing physical self-care as a spiritual discipline? What gets in the way of that framing?