Hi, my name is Pete Scuzeiro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

As many leaders and teams are studying the Emotionally Healthy Leader book, what I'm doing here is I am taking each chapter in that book and expounding beyond it.

For those of you who are reading and studying it,

I'm going to briefly review the content of each chapter before I do that.

But I want to encourage you, as there are many layers to each of these themes,

today's is Face Your Shadow.

I want to encourage you to download the basic discussion guide.

It's free off our website,

Emotionallyhealthy.org slash EH Leader Guide.

Again, it's Emotionally Healthy.org slash EH Leader Guide.

And it's a great discussion guide. it just take you through chapter by chapter

with some basic questions to get you into the content and begin to make some applications to your

life but i want to take you a bit further with it today and around this theme of face your shadow now

in standard practice in most Christian environments, the way we approach

the shadow is, or what we approach even ourselves, we don't spend a lot of time reflecting

on how our interior world is impacting our leadership. And we don't take very often the time to explore kind of those parts of

ourselves that we'll just consider unacceptable, a bit more ugly. And even to process, our anger,

our fears, our sadnesses with ourselves, with God. And most of us are in Christian cultures

that we don't talk a lot about our failures and weaknesses or mistakes. And so we end up blaming

and scapegoating others and we get triggered. We're not sure quite what to do with it, kind of

shove it down. And it's just so normal to spend a lot of time on impression management.

Not even, again, not aware of it that we're investing time and energy in that, but again,

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