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Table of Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Part One: All the Thoughts 1. Thinking About Thinking 2. What We Believe 3. Spiraling Out 4. Breaking Free 5. Where Thoughts Are Captured 6. Make the Shift Part Two: Taking Down the Enemies of Our Minds 7. Drawing Battle Lines 8. Holding Space for Silence: I Choose to Be Still with God 9. Lifelines: I Choose to Be Known 10. Unafraid: I Choose to Surrender My Fears to God 11. A Beautiful Interruption: I Choose to Delight in God 12. Less Important: I Choose to Serve God and Others 13. Not Overcome: I Choose to Be Grateful 14. Run Your Race: I Choose to Seek the Good of Others Part Three: Thinking as Jesus Thinks 15. Who Do You Think You Are? 16. Dangerous Thinking Dedication Acknowledgments Notes Praise for Get Out of Your Head “This is a must-have resource for anyone looking to get control of thoughts that sometimes spin out of control. Get Out of Your Head is the book we all need to help us do this. It’s so easy to park our minds in bad spots—to dwell on and rehash and wish things were different. But to obsess over hard things only deepens our emotional emptiness. I love how Jennie helps us see how unhealthy thoughts can be overcome by our faith, starting right now.” —LYSA TER KEURST , #1 New York Times best-selling author and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries “I know from personal experience just how easily our thoughts try to hijack our faith and throw us into a negative spiral. Get Out of Your Head will equip you with practical biblical tools to take control of your thoughts so they don’t control you.” —CHRISTINE CAINE , best-selling author and founder of A21 and Propel Women “My wife, Heather, and I both read this book and were deeply helped by it. Get Out of Your Head is packed full of truth and insight from God’s Word, personal vulnerability and honesty from Jennie, and practical wisdom and encouragement for all of us. I pray and believe that God will use it to guard your heart and mind in Christ.” —DAVID PLATT , pastor of McLean Bible Church and best-selling author of Something Needs to Change “Sometimes the only barrier to our personal and spiritual growth is our thinking. Jennie Allen’s new book gives us all hope and shows us how to deal with the negative thoughts that stifle and paralyze us. We need to be reminded daily of how to take every thought captive and surrender to the only One who can free us. This book is a beautiful reminder that God is at work in all the messiness of our minds. God beckons us to get out of our heads and practice daily presence and rest with Him.” —LATASHA MORRISON , author and founder of Be the Bridge “The battle between your ears determines how you win at life. And I can testify, because of how she’s personally fought for me and generations of women around the globe, there is no better faith fighter, Word warrior, and soul defender than Jennie Allen, who makes herself your personal trainer in these practical, transformational pages, alight with holy fire. She shows you how to take down anxiety, take back the mental high ground, and take more territory for the kingdom. Get out your highlighter, and get ready to gain the victory. You are about to get out of your head and get to where your heart has always hoped to be.” —ANN VOSKAMP , New York Times best-selling author of The Broken Way and One Thousand Gifts “You know those books you buy twenty copies of and then forcefully give to everyone you know? Yeah, this is one of those books. Hands down. Powerful. Prophetic. Necessary.” —JEFFERSON BETHKE , New York Times best-selling author of Jesus > Religion “Someone might read the title of Jennie Allen’s latest book—Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts —and casually assume that it’s sort of a poppsychology ‘just think positive thoughts and you’ll be fine’ kind of book. If so, they’d be making a wrong assumption. This s