Summary of Sue Monk Kidd's When the Heart Waits

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#1 I had been lost in a crisis of spirit for some months. I had woken up to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in me was crying out. A chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me.

#2 I was having a midlife crisis, and I didn’t know what was happening to me. I was feeling lost and empty, and I didn’t know what to do. I had never experienced anything like this before.

#3 I had been drawing a tent in the middle of some wind- howling woods. I had been a tent dweller, someone who had little self-validation or autonomy, and who tended to define life by others’ expectations and projections.

#4 The midlife transition between the first half of life, which is spent developing the ego, and the second half, which is spent developing the full and true self, is like a difficult birth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350030747

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had been lost in a crisis of spirit for some months. I had woken up to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in me was crying out. A chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me.

#2

I was having a midlife crisis, and I didn’t know what was happening to me. I was feeling lost and empty, and I didn’t know what to do. I had never experienced anything like this before.

#3

I had been drawing a tent in the middle of some wind- howling woods. I had been a tent dweller, someone who had little self-validation or autonomy, and who tended to define life by others’ expectations and projections.

#4

The midlife transition between the first half of life, which is spent developing the ego, and the second half, which is spent developing the full and true self, is like a difficult birth.

#5

When we are faced with a midlife crisis, we must somehow find the courage to say yes to our more real, more Christ-like selves. We must let go of our old identities and illusions, and accept the chaos that comes with it.

#6

I wanted to find the part of me that I had lost while leaning on a nursery window along a quiet