Therapist and pastor Jo Hargreaves shows you how the contemplative rhythms of the Psalms can take you from survival mode to embodied peace and rest.

You trust Scripture with all your heart, but when life hits high gear, faith suddenly feels inaccessible. The emails pile up or your spouse interrupts you, and suddenly your mind races, your chest tightens, and you're either snapping at people or withdrawing. You assume this is a spiritual failure and fall into an exhausting cycle of "react and repent," hoping to think your way into a state of peace.

Jo Hargreaves helps you see what God already knows about you: Your reactions make sense. Your internal alarms are the involuntary responses of a nervous system that is on high alert. In this book, Jo helps you move from fruitless attempts to stay calm into the deeper work of settling your soul in God's presence as you:

• interrupt the worry loop by using ancient biblical rhythms to quiet the brain's default mode,
• deescalate the body's alarm by understanding the science of the amygdala to shift from survival mode to a sense of well-being,
• learn how murmuring Scripture aloud softens your anxiety and helps truth travel from the mind to the body, and
• discover how gratitude and prayer communicate safety to the nervous system.

As Jo shows you, emotional regulation, presence, and attention have been a part of the Psalms since they were written. Using practices that move you from head knowledge to embodied healing, this bookbrings together ancient contemplative rhythms and modern psychology to help you trade confusion and exhaustion for peace and rest.