When striving for true, deep, everlasting change in your life, the road can be a rocky one—and it can often be filled with turmoil and pain. Growing up, therapist Jason VanRuler struggled to find stability in his life, leading him to bad habits that he desperately wanted to break. Jason opens up about how something as simple as asking for help from God and from mentors made the difference in turning his life around.
Quotes
“I think God puts the truth in all of our hearts and we know it. And sometimes we distract ourselves from it or we pretend we don't know it, or we do something else or even try to squash it. But looking in the mirror, I knew the truth.” – Jason VanRuler
“Our emotions are really important, because if we don't acknowledge them or deal with them, they just come out in another place. They don't actually go away. If we're not dealing with them directly, we're going to deal with them indirectly. And so if we actually want to change our life or we want to become different, we have to address the things that are driving us and those are our emotions.” – Jason VanRuler
“Our relationship with God is really going to frame out all those other relationships. And I think that is something you can start on today.” – Jason VanRuler
“I think in my own story and in working with many other people’s stories, what we need most is a change of heart. I think the challenge is we can change our head pretty easily—we often know the problem. We can even identify potential solutions. But if we really want to be different, we need a new heart.” – Jason VanRuler
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*Episode produced by Four Eyes Media*
