3 Counterfeits of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Recently we crossed an unbelievable threshold with the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast with over 10 million lifetime podcast downloads. I couldn't be more surprised, humbled, and thankful for this milestone moment.

I say "surprised" because back in 1996, when we first started, the term "emotional health" was considered heretical in much of the church!

Now 25 years later, we can see that the cultural landscape has changed dramatically. Not only is emotional health received, but in many ways, it is now considered a promotional buzzword.

In today's podcast, I share my observations of what I consider 3 counterfeit versions of emotional health that we settle for, but then cast a vision for an authentic life with God.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today at the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:09.0	Great to be with you. And today's topic is called the three counterfeits of emotionally healthy spirituality.
0:17.2	The three counterfeits of emotionally healthy spirituality. The fact that this is the topic for today and that it has emerged is in itself amazing.
0:27.6	When we first began this journey over 28 years ago in 1996, the words emotional health was not used in the same sentence with Jesus or spirituality. It was almost on the border
0:40.7	of heretical. In fact, anything with the word emotional in it was very suspect. But for us,
0:46.7	it came out of a theology and an understanding of what it means to be made in the image of God.
0:52.1	And actually, when I wrote my first book, which came out seven
0:54.8	years later, the publisher did not want to use the term emotional health in the title because they
1:01.8	said nobody will read it. It will be considered psychobabble. But again, we persisted because of a
1:08.5	theological foundation, and we insisted on it. So it stayed.
1:13.6	In fact, when I wrote the book Emotionally Healthy Leader, which many of you are familiar with,
1:18.1	I was strongly encouraged to go with a secular publisher and actually began corresponding with
1:25.2	an MBA professor and business program, secular business program. And I went
1:29.8	down a road of kind of maybe this could be both end. Then I realized, no, no, our calling in
1:36.0	particular was to focus on the local church and pulled back from that and stayed with Zondervin
1:42.9	as a publisher for us and our calling and our contribution to
1:46.6	the global church in the area of leadership formation and discipleship. And then when we integrated
1:51.7	the contemplative tradition, monasticism, this whole idea of slow down spirituality out of
1:57.3	church history, that really drove us into, at least in the church world at that time,
2:04.2	into another kind of a, I call it a corner of obscurity. It was so radical. It was outside the box
2:10.7	of traditional church and leadership at the time that, you know, people were not talking about it
2:17.0	very much.
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