Iyanla Vanzant: Mastering the 4 Essential Trusts
An Interview with Iyanla Vanzant: Mastering the Four Essential Trusts
Iyanla Vanzant, in her new book, Mastering the Four Essential Trusts talks about how trust is a natural part of our stories as Human Beings.
Iyanla Vanzant is an American inspirational speaker, lawyer, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, life coach and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Iyanla Vanzant can currently be seen on television as the host of Iyanla: Fix My Life, and as a frequently featured guest teacher of Oprah’s Life class on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. In 2000, she was named one of the “100 most influential Black Americans” by Ebony magazine, which said that “Her books, lectures and television appearances have made her a multimedia high priestess of healthy relationships. In 2012, Iyanla Vanzant was listed at #7 on Watkins’ Mind Body Spirit magazine list of the 100 most spiritually influential living people. In 2014, she was co-speaker in Oprah’s the “Life You Want Weekend” tour, which traveled to eight cities, also featuring Deepak Chopra, Mark Nepo, Elizabeth Gilbert and Rob Bell.
OMTIMES is very honored to share an exclusive Iyanla Vanzant Interview given to Dirk Terpstra from SOULLOVE
Cover photo credit: Isaac Sterling
Iyanla Vanzant Interview for OMTimes
OMTimes: Why this book Mastering the Four Essential Trusts? Why is the issue of trust so important to you?
Iyanla Vanzant: Trust is a natural, inherent part of who we are as human beings. It is the glue that holds our lives together. Learning to trust is so simple, and yet it is the hardest thing we must learn to do in this life. Over the decades, I have worked with many, many people, all of whom were at various stages of experiencing a trust breakdown or breakthrough. Many of these individuals never learned that they could trust themselves. Some placed their trust in others, only to be abandoned, rejected, or exploited; others never learned that trust builds character and spiritual power. Each person whose trust was violated represents a microcosm of the world in which we live—where anger and fear, confusion and isolation, lack of faith and a wanton disregard for the divine process of life cause people to act against their true nature. Since our true nature is to be trusting, every small violation of individual trust creates a ripple effect that ultimately impacts the entire world in which we live. That is how important we are as individuals, and that is how powerful trust is in our lives. That is the reason that the pervasive sentiment that—“you cannot trust anyone” is so disturbing.
