Chuck DeGroat
@chuckdegroat.bsky.social
Hoping to offer goodness & beauty in this digital wilderness | Professor @westernsem | Licensed Therapist | Author | 5 Day SouI Care Intensives | PhD Psychology
Embodied wisdom. And so counterintuitive today.
Sometimes it takes a psychologist to remind us of what the Psalmists modeled for us. 
Sometimes it takes a psychologist to remind us of what the Psalmists modeled for us. 
October 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Embodied wisdom. And so counterintuitive today.
Sometimes it takes a psychologist to remind us of what the Psalmists modeled for us. 
Sometimes it takes a psychologist to remind us of what the Psalmists modeled for us. 
What a gift to be teaching for a few days at the Young Life Good Way retreat.
“Beauty will save the world.” -Dostoevsky
“Beauty will save the world.” -Dostoevsky
September 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What a gift to be teaching for a few days at the Young Life Good Way retreat.
“Beauty will save the world.” -Dostoevsky
“Beauty will save the world.” -Dostoevsky
Pardon my handwritten reflection in two images, cobbled together.
I sit with people in complicated grief every day. I sit with my own heart, as well. This is a letter to my heart – and maybe to yours as well, if you’ll receive it.
I sit with people in complicated grief every day. I sit with my own heart, as well. This is a letter to my heart – and maybe to yours as well, if you’ll receive it.
September 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Pardon my handwritten reflection in two images, cobbled together.
I sit with people in complicated grief every day. I sit with my own heart, as well. This is a letter to my heart – and maybe to yours as well, if you’ll receive it.
I sit with people in complicated grief every day. I sit with my own heart, as well. This is a letter to my heart – and maybe to yours as well, if you’ll receive it.
I’m doing a 5 day soul care intensive again this week with a man in midlife - a journey with common threads for each of us who’ve navigated this passage, and yet wholly unique to each man.
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m doing a 5 day soul care intensive again this week with a man in midlife - a journey with common threads for each of us who’ve navigated this passage, and yet wholly unique to each man.
I hit send - my manuscript on character is in the publisher’s hands now.
I’ve been down this road a number of times before, but it’s always a vulnerable moment.
And you invariably wake up in the middle of the night thinking, “I forgot to add this!“
I’ve been down this road a number of times before, but it’s always a vulnerable moment.
And you invariably wake up in the middle of the night thinking, “I forgot to add this!“
September 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I hit send - my manuscript on character is in the publisher’s hands now.
I’ve been down this road a number of times before, but it’s always a vulnerable moment.
And you invariably wake up in the middle of the night thinking, “I forgot to add this!“
I’ve been down this road a number of times before, but it’s always a vulnerable moment.
And you invariably wake up in the middle of the night thinking, “I forgot to add this!“
A little poetic reflection as I write on character formation these days - amidst evolving narcissism.
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A little poetic reflection as I write on character formation these days - amidst evolving narcissism.
Have you noticed how the language of spiritual and emotional health has been co-opted. Might it be more helpful and substantial for us to talk less about health and more about the slow work of character change?
Check out my latest Substack and offer thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/sitwithc...
Check out my latest Substack and offer thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/sitwithc...
July 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Have you noticed how the language of spiritual and emotional health has been co-opted. Might it be more helpful and substantial for us to talk less about health and more about the slow work of character change?
Check out my latest Substack and offer thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/sitwithc...
Check out my latest Substack and offer thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/sitwithc...
Proud of Preston Hill and honored to join John Swinton in endorsing Christ and Trauma.
Keep your eyes out for this one!
Keep your eyes out for this one!
June 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Proud of Preston Hill and honored to join John Swinton in endorsing Christ and Trauma.
Keep your eyes out for this one!
Keep your eyes out for this one!
This is Jesus’ military parade.
This is how Christ became King.
There is the way of the world.
And there is the way of Jesus.
There is the way of the Beast.
And there is the way of the Lamb.
Via @brianzahnd.bsky.social
This is how Christ became King.
There is the way of the world.
And there is the way of Jesus.
There is the way of the Beast.
And there is the way of the Lamb.
Via @brianzahnd.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This is Jesus’ military parade.
This is how Christ became King.
There is the way of the world.
And there is the way of Jesus.
There is the way of the Beast.
And there is the way of the Lamb.
Via @brianzahnd.bsky.social
This is how Christ became King.
There is the way of the world.
And there is the way of Jesus.
There is the way of the Beast.
And there is the way of the Lamb.
Via @brianzahnd.bsky.social
Another day, another fallen pastor, it seems - discovered to have run multiple anonymous social media accounts slandering others. People are already wondering how long it will take to write the apology, take a sabbatical, and come back with a book deal – a manifesto on grace and forgiveness.
May 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Another day, another fallen pastor, it seems - discovered to have run multiple anonymous social media accounts slandering others. People are already wondering how long it will take to write the apology, take a sabbatical, and come back with a book deal – a manifesto on grace and forgiveness.
What would it look like to name its abiding reality in your life, and begin the journey of reconnection - to yourself, to God, to those you love? #HealingWhatsWithin
May 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What would it look like to name its abiding reality in your life, and begin the journey of reconnection - to yourself, to God, to those you love? #HealingWhatsWithin
Safety creates the conditions for meaningful life and work.
When we feel unsafe, unduly pressured or even manipulated, workaholism may be a means of coping. And exhaustion is the result. Nouwen reminds us that safety is our deepest inheritance.
When we feel unsafe, unduly pressured or even manipulated, workaholism may be a means of coping. And exhaustion is the result. Nouwen reminds us that safety is our deepest inheritance.
April 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Safety creates the conditions for meaningful life and work.
When we feel unsafe, unduly pressured or even manipulated, workaholism may be a means of coping. And exhaustion is the result. Nouwen reminds us that safety is our deepest inheritance.
When we feel unsafe, unduly pressured or even manipulated, workaholism may be a means of coping. And exhaustion is the result. Nouwen reminds us that safety is our deepest inheritance.
Happy 5 year anniversary to #WhenNarcissismComesToChurch
Thanks to all of you who’ve read it and shared it with others. I’m so grateful it’s been helpful.
Thanks to all of you who’ve read it and shared it with others. I’m so grateful it’s been helpful.
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy 5 year anniversary to #WhenNarcissismComesToChurch
Thanks to all of you who’ve read it and shared it with others. I’m so grateful it’s been helpful.
Thanks to all of you who’ve read it and shared it with others. I’m so grateful it’s been helpful.
Hello Portland.
First stop, Powell’s Books.
Grabbed a signed copy of a new Yung Pueblo book.
How To Love Better.
Feels about right at this precarious stage in world history.
First stop, Powell’s Books.
Grabbed a signed copy of a new Yung Pueblo book.
How To Love Better.
Feels about right at this precarious stage in world history.
March 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hello Portland.
First stop, Powell’s Books.
Grabbed a signed copy of a new Yung Pueblo book.
How To Love Better.
Feels about right at this precarious stage in world history.
First stop, Powell’s Books.
Grabbed a signed copy of a new Yung Pueblo book.
How To Love Better.
Feels about right at this precarious stage in world history.
Maybe you, like me, need to be reminded again and again:
January 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Maybe you, like me, need to be reminded again and again:
A smiling face and a tie for my 1996 seminary photo hid debilitating panic attacks, deep shame, and denial that there was anything wrong. I am regularly grateful my inner work started then, not least because some around me had the courage to say something.
January 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A smiling face and a tie for my 1996 seminary photo hid debilitating panic attacks, deep shame, and denial that there was anything wrong. I am regularly grateful my inner work started then, not least because some around me had the courage to say something.
This December journal entry of Thomas Merton makes me wonder what kind of space he was in during Advent heading into Christmas, reflecting on humility.
This was, is, and always will be…the way of Jesus.
This was, is, and always will be…the way of Jesus.
December 23, 2024 at 1:26 PM
This December journal entry of Thomas Merton makes me wonder what kind of space he was in during Advent heading into Christmas, reflecting on humility.
This was, is, and always will be…the way of Jesus.
This was, is, and always will be…the way of Jesus.
Happy Winter Solstice, friends.
December 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Happy Winter Solstice, friends.
To heal the trauma within, you’ve got to turn toward that lingering inner critic whose gaslighting voice won’t relent, and to those weary and wounded ones within who desperately need your care…and the care of the one whose Love sees us not as fundamentally broken but whole.
#HealingWhatsWithin
#HealingWhatsWithin
November 25, 2024 at 1:06 PM
To heal the trauma within, you’ve got to turn toward that lingering inner critic whose gaslighting voice won’t relent, and to those weary and wounded ones within who desperately need your care…and the care of the one whose Love sees us not as fundamentally broken but whole.
#HealingWhatsWithin
#HealingWhatsWithin