Heather Radke

It was this upbringing of being told so many times in so many ways that you're less than, not good enough, fundamentally flawed.

And it left him feeling like he had no place to go.

You know, what matters to you?

When that happened, how did you experience that?

What's the feeling for you?

I'll bet you that was the first time you'd ever had that kind of encounter.

With genuine inquiry about who he really is.

John said the first time he discovered that we're supposed to go into the tubs with no clothes on.

He actually turned around and left.

It was a place where you could go to climb out of the what I think John and certainly I believe was a.

a dark pit of misguided beliefs.

You know, there's something, you're fundamentally flawed at birth.

And the reason that people suffer, the reason that they feel pain and anxiety... I found the same yearning theme emerging time after time after time.

This is silly.

This picture you present to the outside world.

Well, one of the things that first happened for him was he realized that there was all this deep-seated rage, that he didn't like the way he was raised, that he felt it was, you know, that did him in, that he was dealt a bad deck of cards and he was raging about it.

go over and sort of attack him.

And there are some crazy people who, when they discover something that has a lot of power and meaning and makes a real difference in one's life, their first and almost natural instinct is to find some way to share it.

John Vasconcellos.

He was wearing a sport coat, shirt, and tie, but obviously underneath the white shirt was some really funky t-shirt that had some strange design on it.