SCOTT BOX | Mental Health and Worship Heroes (Ep. 384)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Scott Box to the show. He’s the author of Heroic Disgrace: A Worship Hero Story, a story about mental health struggles. In this interview, we discuss why he viewed his father as a hero, his obsession with the concept of a hero, when his mental health struggles began, how his approach to healing changed after he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, what he did when it became apparent that he had become dependent on medication, how being a worship leader for a church hindered his recovery, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast, I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23.3	Let's get into it.
0:24.3	Hi guys, today we got a special guest on the podcast, his name is Scott Box and Scott
0:27.2	is the author of a book called heroic disgrace, a worship hero story.
0:31.1	So this book goes into a lot about kind of mental health struggles.
0:35.1	And so there's a lot of three points of this book, there's examples of great fathering
0:40.3	and kind of how he created a hero figure out of his own father, his personal obsession
0:44.6	with kind of the overall concept of being a hero, how that kind of led to some dissonance
0:49.6	in his relationship with Christ and kind of how that works within Christianity.
0:54.1	And he kind of descended into some mental health struggles and he finally got a diagnosis
0:57.5	but he was working in ministry at the time.
0:59.3	And if you're dealing with mental health struggles, you can't really show that if you're
1:02.1	working in ministry and people don't really know how to talk to you and they look at
1:04.9	you like you're crazy.
1:06.1	And guys, we get into all that in this book, so I'm not going to keep them from you any
1:08.9	longer.
1:09.9	So without further ado, let's get into it.
1:13.0	Scott Box, welcome to Undaunted Life, a man's podcast.
1:15.4	Hey, Kyle, thanks so much for having me looking forward to being with you.
1:19.1	Yeah, I will say that off air, you asked me if I lived on the West Coast, which is maybe
1:23.3	the most offensive thing that you could ask the guy from Oklahoma because it's like,
1:27.2	I don't sound like that.
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