The Art of Leadership Network.

You know, we just have to realize that, that what is rooted in one thing over a period of not very long will affect you tri-dimensionally, and then you need a tri-dimensional healing because healing one dimension of you is not going to fix everything, right?

Helping you design your roadmap to wholeness from the inside out this is win today and now here's your host christopher cook hey friends welcome to the podcast i'm coming to you from the backside of a stupid upper

respiratory thing. And you guys, I just got my voice back today. So, hey, welcome. I'm glad you're here.

Let's dive in. Listen, you've been taught to manage your emotions, as have I. You've been told to just

pray more. And I believe in prayer hear me say that to have faith

to don't say that to say this instead all of that is valid especially whenever your mental

or emotional health starts the spiral right but what if the real issue isn't just the struggle

itself what if it's the isn't just the struggle itself?

What if it's the theology that taught you to suppress it in the first place?

Now, hold on.

Don't write me emails.

I'm not deconstructing in some progressive woo-woo way and losing my faith.

I just want to wrestle in this tension for a minute.

Because this week on the podcast, I'm joined by Chris Valleton from Bethel Church.

We're headed to a raw conversation about how well-meaning but really bad theology is distorting our view of emotional health and creating systems of self-oppression even inside the church.

Now listen, this is even aside from what the scriptures say, from the authority of Christ,

this is like the sidecar subculture thing, and we want to address it.

So, what am I talking about specifically?

Well, from the stigma surrounding therapy and medication to the over-spiritualization of trauma

to spiritual bypassing, things like that.

Chris is here and he's not going to pull any punches.

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