Hi, everyone. My name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally

healthy leader podcast. So good to be with you. And our title is Go Back to Go Back to Go Forward.

It's part three of this series we're doing on emotionally healthy spirituality. Now, I'm doing this because we've just launched a brand

new refresh of the EH discipleship course, Part 1 and 2. The materials out of five, six years of work.

It's incredibly exciting. New workbook revisions, videos that are free and redone and downloadable, at least streaming videos.

And E.H. spirituality is actually the framework, the core framework of the entire course

coming out of the E.H. spirituality book and workbook. And I've never actually addressed it

in a systematic way before in this podcast. And in some ways, it can be summarized

that there's four core essentials of all emotionally healthy discipleship. It's about one, slowing

down to be with Jesus, and all that that involves, silence, solitude, etc. First is slowing down.

Secondly, is go back to go forward, our theme for today.

Thirdly, is learning skills to love well. And fourthly, it's practicing Sabbath rhythms.

But today we're going to focus on go back to go forward, really a very large theme. And again,

my goal is only briefly briefly review what's found in the

books and the course, but I want to supplement and build it out a bit as it applies in particular

to leadership. So there's a three-part framework for going back to go forward. And let me just give a very brief summary here.

First is that the blessings and sins of our families go back three to four generations,

and this profoundly affects who we are today.

And so when the Bible speaks of family, it refers to our extended family,

going back three to four generations.

That means that in the biblical sense, when we three to four generations. That means that when, in the biblical

sense, when we refer to families, we're talking about going back to the late 1800s. And the

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