122 A Pastor’s Journey of Exploring His Story and Addressing His Trauma with Rich Villodas

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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I’m joined today by Rich Villodas, pastor of New Life Church in New York City. Rich shares a story of trauma that happened when he was 12 years old. He then explains how that traumatic experience was reenacted 30 years later. We also cover how and why Rich decided to explore his own story, as well as the importance of listening to our bodies in our day to day life. If you want to hear more from Rich, please check out his recently published book Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole In a Fractured World.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and I'm joined today by
0:05.5	Rich Viotis who is a pastor in New York City and the author of a recently published book called
0:14.2	Good and Beautiful and Kind, Becoming Whole in a Fractured World. Rich, thanks for joining us today.
0:23.1	Adam, thanks so much for the kind invitation. I'm a man, a man of your podcast and look forward to
0:28.5	a good conversation with you. Tell us a little bit about just what you spend your time doing,
0:34.2	kind of who you are, what you're doing there in Queens. Primarily, I think I spend my time
0:41.0	parenting with Rosie, our 13-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son Nathan and so which is
0:48.4	I'm learning a lot about myself and just the parenting experience and parenting journey.
0:54.0	When I'm not doing that and hanging with them, I passed a new life which is a church that started
1:00.0	in 1987, started by a guy named Pete Scazero of the emotionally healthy world and I've been
1:07.9	there for starting my 15th year and starting my 10th year as the lead pastor of this really remarkable
1:15.7	community. Adam, you and I were talking about your experience living in Queens and so you understand
1:21.3	the flavors of Queens, you know, over 75 nations represented in a neighborhood where 123 languages
1:27.3	are spoken and so being here the last 14 years has been a great, great gift. I want to ask you
1:36.8	about a specific chapter in your most recent book Good and Beautiful and Kind but before I do,
1:42.7	let me just for the benefit of our listeners kind of make a comment about the book as a whole
1:46.9	because this is a vast undertaking. It's an ambitious book and here's kind of a preview of what
1:52.5	you do in this book. You begin by arguing that if we want to love other people well, we need to
1:59.5	understand what we're up against and you identify three things that we're up against. Sin,
2:05.7	powers and principalities and trauma and then to combat these three forces, you suggest that each
2:13.4	of us needs to develop practices and three of them in particular, contemplative prayer,
2:19.6	humility and the cultivation of calm presence and then it's not over yet. There's a whole
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