✅ How Healthy is Your Leadership? Take this short and free quiz to find out.  https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leadership-assessment/ ————————————————- Churches have all kinds of expectations of pastors and church leaders. There is a certain pressure that you must be able to cast vision, teach and preach, lead and inspire staff and volunteers, build teams, and keep ministry momentum in all areas. The problem? Everything on this list is EXTERNAL. Very few churches and pastors see their INTERNAL life with God as part of their job description. For this reason, we must become increasingly serious about leading from a deep inner life with God (not just gifting and skill). On today’s podcast, I will share some of what I’ve been sharing with many pastors. How we should design every part of our lives (rest, work, prayer, and relationships) around the love of God.  

🎯 SKILLS FOR FAMILIES: Learn a powerful 5-part conversation tool and teach your family. https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/community   It’s time we dispel a myth…there are NO perfect parents.Geri and I have been parenting for 39 years, and we are still learning as we go. Every age and stage of life presents opportunities and challenges. The key is to continue in the direction of good parenting, even if you make mistakes along the way.Today, Geri joins me for part two of a podcast where we explore one of the most challenging leadership tasks on earth – emotionally healthy parenting. Together, we cover 4 critical parenting issues: Why YOU are your child’s biggest problem (and what to do about that) How to create a SAFE environment in your home Why CONNECTION is more important than rules The importance of knowing your POWER with your children    

Podcast Description: ✅ FREE PREVIEW: Download and Watch Session One of the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Course — https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/preview Unclear and unmet expectations have the power to rip apart relationships, divide teams, blow up families, and sink entire churches. That’s why expectations are a matter of life and death! There are 4 primary ways expectations go wrong: Your expectation is unconscious. You didn’t even know you had an expectation until it was violated. Your expectation is unrealistic. It is not reasonable given the person or circumstance. Your expectation is unspoken. You did not clearly articulate your expectation to another person. Your expectation is un-agreed upon. The other person never agreed to follow through with your expectation. The good news is – this can all be remedied by learning the life-saving skill of Clarifying Expectations. In part three of this series, Geri Scazzero is joined by her husband Pete to explore the 8 essential relationship skills everyone must adopt in order to cultivate emotionally healthy relationships. —————-. Read more.

🎯 SKILLS FOR FAMILIES: Learn a powerful 5-part conversation tool and teach your family. https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/community ————————— Today, we’re tackling a relatively untouched topic on the podcast. Parenting. Why parenting on a leadership podcast? Among your many roles as a leader, one of the most important (and difficult) relationships is parents and children. The truth is – whether biological, adopted, or spiritual children, we all are called to raise up the next generation. The reality is – without deep inner work and awareness, parents always repeat exactly as they were parented. You will parent the same way unless you intentionally change your family pattern. You’ve heard the Proverb, “Train up a child in the way they should go.” (Proverbs 22:6) Emotionally healthy parenting says, “Train up a parent in the way he or she should go.” Today is part one of a two-part series on the longest-lasting relationships you will lead in your entire life. This. Read more.

✅ FREE DOWNLOAD: Access the “Community Temperature Reading” Video and PDF for free — https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/community To cultivate healthy relationships, everyone around you must feel empowered to communicate clearly and honestly. In part one of this series, Geri Scazzero is joined by her husband Pete,  to explore the first of 8 essential relationship skills every leader must adopt in order to unleash the God-given voice of our people. Together, they’ll model a powerful skill called “Community Temperature Reading” and talk about how it applies to relationships in leadership and life. Without this skill, people feel silenced – unable to speak truth and creating the conditions for an environment of frustration, resentment, and judgement. Imagine leading a church where every staff, leader, and volunteer knows how to communicate clearly. Imagine a culture, where everyone feels safe to tell the truth and has the skills needed to do so. Imagine the unity that is possible when every voice is. Read more.

✅ FREE PREVIEW: Download and Watch Session One of the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Course — https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/preview Many Christians do not know what to do with their emotions. When sadness, anger, or disappointment surface in our souls, we avoid them rather than see them as gifts. As a result, we are rarely present with God or with others. The truth is that emotions never die. They are only buried alive. They always resurface, leaking into other parts of our lives and relationships. It took God’s work to change this in Geri Scazzero’s life and marriage. When Geri and her husband discovered the permission to explore their emotional lives, it was like opening up a dam for the first time. The world went from black and white to color almost overnight. In part five of this series, Geri Scazzero is joined by her husband Pete to explore the 8 essential relationship skills everyone must adopt in order. Read more.