Why So Many Church Leaders Collapse with Gary Katz

About this episode

The episode discusses the pressures faced by church leaders and the impact on their mental health, featuring insights from Rabbi and therapist Gary Katz.

Send us Fan Mail Ever felt the pressure to be “on” every waking minute? We sat down with Rabbi and therapist Gary Katz to unpack the quiet cost of spiritual leadership: how constant likability, role-based identity, and unspoken expectations can turn faith into performance and push leaders toward secrecy. Gary opens up about his own crash into sex and love addiction, the spiral into substances, and the slow rebuild that followed—rooted in a radical idea: spiritual progress beats spiritual perf...

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Host: Valiant Living

Guest: Gary Katz

Topics covered

• spiritual leadership
• mental health
• addiction
• identity
• expectations
• recovery

Keywords

• church leaders
• spiritual performance
• mental health
• addiction
• recovery
• identity
• expectations

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Organizations: Valiant Living

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