The Emotionally Healthy Woman

It takes practical skills to grow in emotionally healthy discipleship. Skills that help you speak the truth and not lie to yourself, learn how to disrupt false peace for true peace, begin to do clean fighting and not dirty fighting, and learning how to process difficult emotions. All of these skills are necessary for growing in emotionally healthy discipleship. Best-selling author Geri Scazzero shares her journey with her husband, Pete, in church planting and how she hit rock bottom with life's pressure of being the poster child for the church until she realized that pleasing and performing for others is far from the truth God wants for us. 

0:09  Twanna welcomes listeners to the podcast and introduces special guest Geri Scazzero. 

1:33  Geri shares her start to the journey of emotionally healthy discipleship. 

 3:14  Twanna mentions how there's nothing like pain that will push us to a whole new level of growth. 

3:33  Geri shares her story on how her depression eventually led her to the point that her church no longer brought life to her but death. 

8:39 Geri shares how she began to attend a different church from the one her husband and she had planted. This brought shame and embarrassment to her husband.  

9:25  Twanna asks Geri to share how she has evolved now from that process.

10:25  Geri shares how her core was not centered in the true gospel like she thought it was and that was the beginning of her transformation. 

12:43  "If you're afraid of what other people think, then my okayness is not coming from the gospel, my sense of okayness my sense of self,  it's coming from your thoughts of me. In other words, I'm OK with me, if you're okay with me," says Geri. She shares that her identity was being built upon what others thought of her instead of God's gospel. 

17:24  Geri shares the importance of telling the truth to yourself and how vital that is for your emotional health. 

17:48  Twanna asks, how do people get to a place of emotionally healthy discipleship during a pandemic?

18:36  Geri says it starts with self-awareness and knowing how to become self-aware, which begins with paying attention to your body and what is going on inside of you. 

21:25  Twanna asks Geri if there is a difference between emotionally healthy discipleship for women than there is for men.

22:18  Geri shares that it takes great courage to be emotionally healthy whether male or female and to go through that transformation. 

26:34  Geri shares the importance of growing in self-awareness when you are a person in leadership. 

27:32  Geri shares the purpose of her two-part course on her website emotionallyhealthy.org 

30:34  Geri closes in prayer.

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