Includes bibliographical references.

Self-care and the ministry -- What they see is what they get -- What it means to be in the health and wholeness business -- The stress of ministry -- Fill my cup, Lord, but not too much -- Finding out where your edge is: stress self-assessment tools -- Crossing the stress threshold -- Returning form the brink: Susan Miller's story -- Burnout and the ministry -- When the salt loses its savor -- How dry is your well? a burnout self-awareness tool -- The disease of the overcommitted -- Rekindling the fire: AL Tollefson's story -- Self-care strategies -- Living in the tension -- The spiritual uplift -- Letting go techniques -- Time out -- Support systems that work -- Getting the body moving -- Monitoring our intake -- The psychotherapy tune-up -- Getting control of our time -- The value of assertiveness -- The power of laughter -- Monitoring our ambitions -- Routes to detachment -- Implications for ministry -- Spreading the word: self-care works -- Reclaiming the clergy role in the healing arts -- Clergy as advocates of wholistic health -- Living out the incarnation --