Iyanla: Fix My Secret Life As A Gay Pastor: Part 2

Iyanla: Fix My Life

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After he reached out with a letter, Pastor Derek sits down with Iyanla. He confides that he has spent years hiding his identity as a gay man. His family has shown open hostility toward gay people and he lives in fear of what would happen if his true identify were revealed to his family and his parishioners. Iyanla works to help Derek understand that his pain will continue to devour him until he faces his greatest fears, and helps him prepare him for the huge step of coming out to his family and church.

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0:00.0	Let me tell you who I am.
0:02.0	I am a survivor, a teenage mother, a welfare recipient, and a woman.
0:08.0	I am a teacher, life coach, minister, lawyer, and author.
0:13.0	I've had my share of breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs.
0:18.0	I did my work and put my life back together piece by piece. I am I Yanla Van Zand,
0:24.4	and I am here to help you do your work. Previously, on I Amla Fix My Life. When I hear myself say,
0:33.0	I am a gay man, I feel. It makes me feel petrified.
0:39.6	Two gay pastors.
0:41.0	Some of this, Pastor Mitchell, doesn't have anything to do with you being gay.
0:45.5	It has to do with the mask and the guile beneath your feet.
0:49.9	He was living on the D.L.
0:51.2	How many times had you been unfaithful to your wife with men?
0:55.7	What do you say when you look at your wife?
0:58.5	It's just too well put together and it's not making no sense.
1:03.2	This isn't anything I wouldn't involve anybody else here.
1:06.0	Speak on your own pain.
1:07.8	And that is what gives people permission to stand in theirs.
1:11.6	He has been running from his truth.
1:13.6	That fear caused you to betray who you are.
1:16.6	That fear causes you to dishonor your ministry.
1:19.6	Where's the first place other than here that you need to go take this stuff off?
1:24.6	Your mother needs to meet the man she made.
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