The Thing Beneath the Thing: What's Hidden Inside (and What God Helps Us Do About It)

Addresses how past wounds and hidden struggles impact life and how faith can bring healing and spiritual wholeness.

The Thing Beneath the Thing: What’s Hidden Inside (and What God Helps Us Do About It) invites readers to look beyond surface behaviors and confront the deeper issues—“potholes” in life—formed by pain, trauma, and harmful coping choices. Carter argues that without acknowledging these hidden struggles, people tend to cover them with quick fixes that ultimately fail. Through biblical insight and practical reflection, he guides readers to identify and understand triggers, insecurities, false narratives, and hideouts, and to invite God’s grace as the path to genuine healing, spiritual health, and lasting wholeness.