The High Stakes Decision to Transform Your History into a Great Future

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Leaders, by definition, are captivated by the future – moving forward, making progress, and changing the world.

But what many leaders fail to appreciate is that we are all anchored in our past. In other words, none of us are "blank slates". We each bring the blessings and curses of our families of origin (Exodus 20:5) into our relationships, churches, organizations, and businesses.

Emotionally healthy leaders understand that you cannot go forward without first going backward.

That is why the GENOGRAM is one of the core tools in both parts of the Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Course.

When I became a Christian, I believed I was a "new creation" (2 Cor. 5:17) and that I no longer needed to deal with my past. However, when I discovered the genogram tool, I found a new way to bring all of the baggage of my family of origin to Jesus to be changed.

The truth is – you cannot change what you are unaware of.

In today's podcast episode, Geri and I share our history with this powerful tool and how it helped us name the reality of our past to catalyze the transforming work of Jesus in our lives and leadership. Don't miss this one!

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to the emotionally healthy leader podcast. I'm Pete. I'm Jerry.
0:07.7	And today's topic is the high stakes to transform your history into a great future. It's all about Genogram.
0:16.8	Yes. Yep.
0:17.7	So, you know, this is our fourth podcast in a series of eight that we've done. So we've done the
0:22.3	community temperature reading, finding your God-given voice. We did stop mind reading, slaying the
0:28.6	dragon of wrong assumptions, we called it. And then we did clarifying expectations, which is,
0:35.4	we said, was life-saving practice.
0:37.7	Yes.
0:41.6	And this one, we're giving another loaded term, the high-stakes decision to transform your history.
0:43.8	Honey, why is it so high-stakes?
0:45.8	Why is it a massive decision to say, I'm going to look at my history and my past and how
0:51.3	it's impacting my present?
0:53.9	I think for me, it might be different for you in terms of what high stakes means, but
0:59.2	I think about the transformation that happened in us as a result of going back and seeing
1:06.6	how our families impacted us.
1:08.6	I mean, we had already been Christians and leaders in Christ's
1:12.3	church for at least 17 years. And although we learned lots of skills and spiritual practices,
1:20.0	I don't think we were really changing on the inside, personally or even maritaly. And so it was this journey of genogramming our families,
1:31.0	looking at our families, and their impact on us that led to so much new awareness
1:36.7	that could lead us into tremendous transformation and it's high stakes because I can't even
1:43.7	imagine. Can you imagine where we would be today if we had not done this work of looking at our families?
1:52.0	No. Let's, I mean, let's think about that for a second. We were 17 years Christian. I've been through seminary. I was pastoring a church. We were pastoring for years
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