Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast. My name is Rich Velodis. I'm the lead

pastor of New Life Fellowship Church here in Queens, New York City, and I'm here, as always,

with Pete Skazero. Pete is the founder of New Life, as well as the founder of emotionally healthy

spirituality.

Now it feels good to have this book in my hand here.

This is the fruit of many years, hours, months of writing,

and it's just great to have the emotional healthy leader in my hand here, Pete.

So congratulations on that massive, massive accomplishment.

How do you feel about it?

Bitter sweet, Rich.

You know, I feel great.

It's done.

And it's funny.

I was elated and I was depressed when I saw it because I realized how much blood, sweat, and tears

went into it. So it's bittersweet.

Yeah. We're in a series of podcasts focusing on themes from the emotionally healthy leader.

And today we're going to talk about slowing down for loving union. So let's just start with

the finding of terms, a phrase, what do you mean, slowing down for loving union?

You know, actually, I chose the phrase loving union

because it kind of gave a fresh perspective on abiding.

If John 15, abide in me, remain in me, and I will remain in you.

Apart from me, you can bear no fruit.

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