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Robin Arender: From Self-Loathing to Self-Love · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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  Speaker 1: The following program is sponsored by Ron Meyers Ministries.
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  Speaker 2: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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  Speaker 2: A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope.
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  Speaker 2: Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's join our host, ron Meyers.
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  Speaker 2: The Provider.
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  Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you today.
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  Ron Meyers: If I was to ask you, what do you love about yourself?
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  Ron Meyers: What would you tell me?
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  Ron Meyers: My guest today was asked that very same question a few years ago and she burst out in tears and said lady, I don't even like myself.
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  Ron Meyers: Sometimes that low self-esteem, self-image, will destroy our hopes.
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  Ron Meyers: Our dreams lead us to drugs, to alcoholism, divorce, and today's guest, robin Arunder, went through all of that.
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  Ron Meyers: But then she met hope, and hope, named Jesus, changed her life.
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  Ron Meyers: So I encourage you to invest a few minutes to listen to Robin's story.
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  Ron Meyers: It is encouraging, empowering and very inspirational.
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  Ron Meyers: Robin, I'm so glad you are going to share your story.
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  Ron Meyers: So, robin Arunder, what is your story?
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  Robin Arender: Oh wow.
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  Robin Arender: I grew up in a small town, in Simpson County.
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  Robin Arender: I always felt different about myself.
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  Robin Arender: I couldn't put a nail on my head what it was, but I just didn't feel like I belonged anywhere.
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  Robin Arender: I tried so hard to make friends and I just felt like I was different from all of them.
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  Robin Arender: I don't know what it was.
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  Robin Arender: I grew up in church.
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  Robin Arender: I was in the youth group children's.
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  Robin Arender: My mom always took us to church.
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  Robin Arender: She was an angel.
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  Robin Arender: I could remember riding to church and she'd say devil, get behind me, devil.
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  Robin Arender: And I didn't understand what she meant.
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  Robin Arender: Until later on in life I saw my first relationship.
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  Robin Arender: My first marriage was abuse of relationship.
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  Robin Arender: It was physical, it was mental.
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  Robin Arender: In that relationship I developed an eating disorder.
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  Robin Arender: I felt that I needed to look a certain way, act a certain way.
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  Robin Arender: I never had self-esteem for myself.
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  Robin Arender: I went to treatment for that.
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  Robin Arender: I got out of the relationship.
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  Robin Arender: Then I met my kids' dads, noel and Nick, and we stayed together for 13 years.
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  Robin Arender: It was a pretty good marriage.
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  Robin Arender: We went to church, we were there every time the doors opened.
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  Robin Arender: Soccer games, softball games.
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  Robin Arender: It was all about the kids.
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  Robin Arender: But I realized later that I was using them to fill my void in life, making everything about them and not dealing with my own issues.
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  Robin Arender: My kids are precious to me.
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  Robin Arender: They love me.
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  Robin Arender: Today they have been there for me In 13 years.
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  Robin Arender: Later we got divorced.
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  Robin Arender: Within five years I had my mom die, my men, my daughter die.
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  Robin Arender: I lost a little girl, lani Gray.
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  Robin Arender: She lived for 20 minutes.
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  Robin Arender: Let me just go back a little bit.
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  Robin Arender: Before that marriage I found out that I was an alcoholic.
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  Robin Arender: I was drinking way too much, but during this marriage there was no drinking at all.
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  Robin Arender: But after we got divorced I thought, you know, I can have just that one drink With all the important people in my life that have passed away.
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  Robin Arender: You know I looked to them for advice, for comfort, and now I just felt kind of on my own.
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  Robin Arender: We were divorced there I turned away from the church that we went into.
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  Robin Arender: I had my kids and I just I turned to the bottle to ease my comfort and to bring some kind of comfort and pain.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, that had to be a vicious cycle of life, because every day you wake up there's more pain.
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  Ron Meyers: But to numb the pain, you take a drink and you go on and on.
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  Ron Meyers: How long did this last?
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  Robin Arender: And it was to numb the pain.
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  Robin Arender: I was not a partier or anything like that, it was strictly to numb the pain.
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  Robin Arender: It lasted on and off for probably 10 more years.
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  Robin Arender: I got in another domestic violence relationship and we lived together and I was so ashamed and embarrassed of that relationship because, you know, I put my kids, the ones that I love the most, I put them to the wayside.
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  Robin Arender: I just I didn't know how to handle life and I went about it in a bad way instead of asking for help.
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  Robin Arender: You know, I always tried to be perfect and I always tried to put on a persona on the outside and have a smile, but deep down inside I was just.
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  Robin Arender: I hated myself, I was lonely on the inside.
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  Robin Arender: You know, I was just.
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  Robin Arender: I was hurting.
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  Robin Arender: I was hurting.
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  Ron Meyers: I read in part of your story that you lived I think this was on your third relationship, my last one Kind of like on a little desert island or something.
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  Ron Meyers: It wasn't a desert island, but you were isolated.
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  Ron Meyers: There was only one way in and one way out.
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  Ron Meyers: Tell us about that.
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  Robin Arender: This last and final guy that I was with.
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  Robin Arender: I met him on a dating site, you know, and I think, well, I know, yeah, I just didn't want to be alone.
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  Robin Arender: I didn't trust the decisions that I made.
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  Robin Arender: I needed somebody to tell me what to do and I didn't want to be alone.
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  Robin Arender: So I, you know, I said, well, I guess I'll be miserable rather than being alone.
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  Robin Arender: I just didn't have the courage and the faith that I needed, always knew I was a Christian, always knew that God was there for me and I always knew that he could take the burden away from me.
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  Robin Arender: I just could not make that, that step into giving it all over to him.
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  Robin Arender: I don't know if it was a control thing or or what it was, but I just couldn't give myself completely to God and do what I needed to do.
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  Robin Arender: Yes, we were isolated, and if he didn't want to go out, we didn't go out, go to town or anything like that, and I put on a good front with my friends and family.
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  Ron Meyers: But one day you had somebody come pick you up in a boat because your life was about to change, wasn't it?
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  Robin Arender: Yeah, I, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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  Robin Arender: I knew that I did not want to live the rest of my life this way.
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  Robin Arender: I knew that there had to be something more.
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  Robin Arender: And I had been talking with the women at the um Gov Coast Women's Center for nonviolence and you know they said Robin, when you're ready, come on, come on.
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  Robin Arender: So I called him and I said I'm coming.
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  Robin Arender: I had somebody come pick me up in a boat.
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  Robin Arender: I packed my suitcase of what I could pack.
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  Robin Arender: I got in my old raggedy car and I made it to the shelter and I can't tell you the good that they do for other people.
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  Robin Arender: Ms Patricia, there they are wonderful.
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  Robin Arender: They loved me until I could love myself.
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  Robin Arender: They welcomed me with open arms and the main thing about it is I felt safe.
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  Robin Arender: I felt really safe.
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  Ron Meyers: You said something that's just really a powerful statement.
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  Ron Meyers: They loved you until you could love yourself.
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  Ron Meyers: So you really had this low self image and, as you said a little bit ago, no self esteem.
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  Ron Meyers: All of a sudden, life was starting to change.
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  Ron Meyers: You were starting to feel good about yourself.
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  Ron Meyers: You knew that God had created you with a purpose and a destiny.
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  Robin Arender: It didn't happen overnight.
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  Robin Arender: There was so many things.
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  Robin Arender: I kept on drinking.
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  Robin Arender: They got me a grant for my own apartment and things were looking up.
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  Robin Arender: I had found me a job.
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  Robin Arender: You know I've always had really good jobs, decent jobs, and you know I was just thankful to get whatever job I could.
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  Robin Arender: It was so humbling to me and I got involved in alcoholics synonymous.
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  Robin Arender: The first three steps are I can't, he can, I'll let him.
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  Robin Arender: I got into therapy.
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  Robin Arender: The therapy was the biggest motivator for me.
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  Robin Arender: When I walked in that room, she asked me.
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  Robin Arender: She said what do you love about yourself?
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  Robin Arender: And I promise you, tears just came streaming down my eyes because I was like lady, I don't even like myself.
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  Robin Arender: I don't know how you could think I love myself and I do want to say this January 2, 2019.
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  Robin Arender: This was before I went to the therapist.
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  Robin Arender: I had ended up in the hospital, real sick from drinking, and I had seen what it did to my family, and that was when I got out of the hospital.
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  Robin Arender: I got on my knees and I said God, please take this from me, please take this desire, please help me.
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  Robin Arender: You know, it's like they say, just having faith of a mustard seed.
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  Robin Arender: That is all it took and my life started to change.
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  Robin Arender: And getting back in the therapy, you know I was thinking how in the world is therapy going to make me feel better?
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  Robin Arender: You know it's not a quick fix, it's not medicine.
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  Robin Arender: You know that I can just take and start feeling better.
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  Robin Arender: But she made me do things like write post-it notes with, put goals and all this kind of stuff.
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  Robin Arender: And you know, when we first started out I said, well, I did it, but it didn't mean anything to me.
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  Robin Arender: And she said keep doing it.
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  Robin Arender: And I did and I promise you that therapy and giving it all to God it, it filled that void in that hole.
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  Ron Meyers: End listeners.
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  Ron Meyers: The perfect sky is tall Listeners, welcome back, and the studio is with me today is Robin Arinder.
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  Ron Meyers: Arinder, I said right, we have pronunciation classes here.
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  Robin Arender: And Robin was in abusive relationship.
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  Ron Meyers: She was a drinker, she had everything going against her, but then she fell to her knees.
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  Ron Meyers: And now this segment she's going to tell you what God has been doing in her life and also to give some encouragement to others out there that just haven't failed to their knees yet.
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  Ron Meyers: So, robin, life is starting to turn around.
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  Ron Meyers: You have you and your children, and so tell us the what life is like now.
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  Ron Meyers: How is the life for Robin Arinder?
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  Robin Arender: You know, I've learned so much about myself and I you know my I was in all those domestic violence relationships and I took time off.
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  Robin Arender: I said, you know, I've got to work on myself and learn to love myself before I will be good for somebody else.
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  Robin Arender: And um, and that's what I did.
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  Robin Arender: And now when the next guy comes along, God willing, you know, he'll be lucky.
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  Ron Meyers: He'll be very lucky.
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  Ron Meyers: I love it.
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  Ron Meyers: I love it and listen in your story.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm going to share some things that you shared and then you can elaborate on them.
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  Ron Meyers: You said there are numerous things I have learned along the way and so many tools I can use Now.
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  Ron Meyers: I think this is great wisdom that you can share with others.
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  Ron Meyers: One of them is hurt people hurt.
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  Ron Meyers: What do?
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  Robin Arender: you mean, I mean, you know, I know in all my domestic violence relationships you know they were narcissists, they were hurting themselves.
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  Robin Arender: You know, I know at times when I'm, when I hurt, I lash out at other people that that didn't even deserve it.
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  Robin Arender: You know we hurt and we just want to make everybody else around us miserable and hurt too.
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  Ron Meyers: You also write God is still in the miracle business.
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  Robin Arender: Absolutely.
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  Robin Arender: Look if he can, if he can change my heart the way he did.
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  Robin Arender: And I see miracles every day that are only described by God things, only described by God things.
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  Robin Arender: You know, I I can't emphasize enough what he, that void that he filled in my heart, that was missing forever, forever, and only him could do it.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, only him, I agree.
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  Ron Meyers: Another one you wrote I can only keep what I can give away.
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  Robin Arender: What I'm saying by that is, you know, if, if I want to keep myself is spiritually fit, then I have to give that away.
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  Robin Arender: I have to be good to other people.
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  Robin Arender: I have to consider other people besides myself.
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  Robin Arender: I have to promote grace.
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  Robin Arender: Sometimes that's hard with some people when they don't act the way I want them to act, but I have to say you know, God gave me an imaginable grace, and who am I not to give grace to other people?
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  Ron Meyers: You know that's so well put.
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  Ron Meyers: I call it the boomerang effect.
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  Ron Meyers: You know what we give comes back to us.
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  Robin Arender: I can guarantee you in this works every time.
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  Robin Arender: If I'm having a bad day, if I step out of myself and do something for somebody else, that bad, that bad day gets better instantly.
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  Ron Meyers: Here's one I love Don't stop before the miracle happens.
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  Robin Arender: That's one of the sands that we say in alcoholics anonymous.
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  Robin Arender: I'm involved that, that too, you know.
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  Robin Arender: My first sponsor told me, as long as you're breathing, that's there's a chance.
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  Robin Arender: And I hold that with me.
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  Robin Arender: You know, when I first got sober and first started getting in recovery, you know, if I made it through the day, that was in a consciousness and that was good for that day.
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  Robin Arender: It was progress, not perfection.
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  Ron Meyers: Progress, not perfection.
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  Ron Meyers: I like that.
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  Ron Meyers: That's good.
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  Ron Meyers: You are definitely a wiser person than you were 10 or 15 years ago, aren't you?
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  Robin Arender: No, absolutely.
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  Robin Arender: But it's nothing that I did, I promise.
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  Robin Arender: I just had to become willing.
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  Ron Meyers: One of the other ones you wrote.
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  Ron Meyers: I fall short every day on these describing the things we just talked about, but by recognizing them I get a chance to make things right and hopefully share my experience, strength and hope with someone suffering Wow.
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  Robin Arender: That's right.
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  Ron Meyers: So somebody out there right now that may be hurting, suffering in an abusive relationship, you can talk to them now one on one.
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  Ron Meyers: Robin, what would you tell them?
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  Robin Arender: I promise you things get better.
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  Robin Arender: There is a way out.
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  Robin Arender: It is not hopeless.
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  Robin Arender: God will turn that into hopeful.
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  Robin Arender: Whatever your situation is, I promise you ask for help.
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  Robin Arender: You know I never asked for help and until I did ask for help because I learned that when I get those feelings out there they lose that power over me.
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  Robin Arender: They don't control me anymore when I talk to somebody else about what's going on in my life.
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  Ron Meyers: So is life good.
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  Ron Meyers: Are you happy?
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  Robin Arender: I am happy.
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  Ron Meyers: How's your?
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  Robin Arender: Yeah, I am happy.
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  Ron Meyers: How's your children?
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  Robin Arender: Oh gosh.
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  Robin Arender: You know they have been through so much and you know I had a lot of guilt and shame.
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  Robin Arender: It took me a while to get over that guilt and shame because they're the most important people in my life and you know I'd never thought that I would treat them the way that I did.
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  Robin Arender: And you know I stayed stuck in that.
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  Robin Arender: I stayed stuck in that guilt and shame and it was only till I got it out and I had to forgive myself.
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  Robin Arender: You know, when they say forgiveness is for yourself, not the other person, that's true.
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  Robin Arender: I can't afford to hold resentments.
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  Robin Arender: You know I have to face it head on.
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  Robin Arender: They have just.
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  Robin Arender: They love me today.
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  Robin Arender: They love me and I've told them.
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  Robin Arender: I said you know you have every reason not to love me, to hate me, things I've done, and they say you're supposed to love your mama.
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  Robin Arender: And you know we have such a good relationship.
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  Ron Meyers: So, robin, what's the future?
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  Ron Meyers: What do you hope to do one day with this new life?
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  Robin Arender: You know, if I could quit work and talk about God all day long, I would.
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  Robin Arender: I just he's been that good to me and it makes me happy to talk about God Now.
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  Robin Arender: I have bad days.
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  Robin Arender: I do.
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  Robin Arender: I have some bad days, but the good days far outweigh the bad days.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, I think everybody, if they're honest with themselves.
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  Ron Meyers: We all have bad days, but you and I and others out there, we know who's in control of the day, and when we say God, I need your help, he comes in and he helps, doesn't?
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  Robin Arender: he, he does, he does.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, you know, the title of this show is Get the Hell Out of your Life.
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  Ron Meyers: So now my question to you how does a person get the hell out of their life?
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  Robin Arender: They take the first day out.
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  Robin Arender: They admit that.
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  Robin Arender: You know there's a problem, they acknowledge it.
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  Robin Arender: You know I can do anything once I acknowledge it.
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  Robin Arender: You know I have learned and it's taken many lessons to get out of the problem and getting in the solution, because there is a solution to every problem.
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  Ron Meyers: I sent you a copy of my story.
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  Ron Meyers: You did and you were telling me and I'm not doing this for any compliments, but you said that helped give you some courage to share your story.
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  Robin Arender: It, did it, did Y'all.
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  Robin Arender: I am not a reader and when he sent me this book I was like, oh my goodness, I'm getting and I read it.
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  Robin Arender: I read it in two days and it's his powerful story of you know.
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  Robin Arender: A lot of times he kept getting knocked down, knocked down, but he had that faith in God and he just kept on moving and you know he has accomplished so much and the story inspired me that you know, if I lost every cent today, it would still be okay, as long as I trusted God.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, you and I shared something you know the secret to everything in life it's not even a secret is that we just can't quit.
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  Ron Meyers: We have to have faith in God, hold onto his hand and, through all those storms and all those trials and tribulations, just keep holding on, because he'll pull us through.
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  Ron Meyers: You're stronger today because of the hell that you had in your life.
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  Ron Meyers: You got the hell gone and now, as you said, you just want to talk about God all the time.
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  Robin Arender: Yeah, that's what he's done to me.
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  Robin Arender: You know, I've learned today to base things on facts, not feelings.
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  Robin Arender: You know, when something arises, I have to get in the facts because those feelings will get in the way all the time.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, before we go, would you pray for us, for the listeners out there.
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  Robin Arender: Sure, I'd be glad to Our Heavenly Father we just come to you today, lord, and I just pray for anybody out there that's struggling.
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  Robin Arender: Lord, you already know their needs.
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  Robin Arender: You already know who they are.
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  Robin Arender: You've got your arms just waiting for them, lord.
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  Robin Arender: I just pray that they'll just make that simple step and come to you.
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  Robin Arender: I pray for all the people who are hurting.
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  Robin Arender: Lord, I know what it feels like, I know what it hurts, and I know what it feels like to be at the very bottom and to just feel like the worst person in the world.
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  Robin Arender: I pray that, lord, that you will just lift them up, and I just thank you for doing that already.
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  Robin Arender: Lord, in your precious name, we pray Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: Amen, Robin.
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  Ron Meyers: Hey, listen, if somebody wants to send you a thumbs up or just a message, they heard you Are you on social media.
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  Robin Arender: I am on Facebook.
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  Ron Meyers: Okay.
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  Robin Arender: Robin Orender.
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  Ron Meyers: And how do you spell that last name?
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  Ron Meyers: A-r-e-n-d-e-r, r-n-d-r, r-n-d-r.
• 22:30
  Ron Meyers: Well, robin, good, I think somebody will reach out to you.
• 22:32
  Ron Meyers: You are a blessing and thank you for sharing your story, and you just got one of your prayers answered to talk about God through radio and podcasts that go all over the world.
• 22:47
  Ron Meyers: So, thank you.
• 22:48
  Ron Meyers: God is so pleased with you.
• 22:50
  Robin Arender: Thank you, I appreciate it.
• 22:52
  Robin Arender: I was a little nervous and I probably stuttered some words, but that's okay, it's not about me.
• 22:58
  Ron Meyers: But you know, the tagline for this show is real people, real stories, real struggles and real hope, and you just shared some real hope.
• 23:07
  Ron Meyers: Thank you, Robin.
• 23:07
  Robin Arender: Thank you.
• 23:08
  Robin Arender: I just want to say I've had some great friends too.
• 23:11
  Ron Meyers: You want to mention them.
• 23:12
  Robin Arender: Go ahead, oh gosh, just some great friends that have come into my life.
• 23:18
  Ron Meyers: We all need friends, don't we?
• 23:19
  Robin Arender: Yeah, and they're true friends.
• 23:21
  Robin Arender: I didn't know how to be a friend.
• 23:22
  Robin Arender: I had to learn how to be a friend too, and they helped me along the way.
• 23:26
  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 23:26
  Ron Meyers: Well, God bless you and look forward to checking in with you again soon and we'll see what's happening in the life of Robin Orender.
• 23:33
  Robin Arender: Okay, I'm excited.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life with your host, ron Myers.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Real stories, real struggles and real hope.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Has hope become a stranger in your life?
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: Do you feel trapped?
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Are you caught in a whirlpool of life and responsibilities that you can't escape?
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Maybe hope is gone because someone robbed you of your childhood or your youth, or maybe it's a dream that you know will never come true.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: We can wish differently, but life will never be painless.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: But you're saying where can I find a place where there is peace?
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Peace is found only in Jesus Christ, crucified and resurrected.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Jesus is triumphant over every pain, every failure, every heartbreak and every hope for this life.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Jesus tells us if anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: If you would like to speak with someone right now about beginning a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, call 888-NEED-HIM or go to wwwchataboutjesuscom.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: God will be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: We want to encourage you today with God's promise to you.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It comes from the book of Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11, for I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Plans to give you hope and the future.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: That's God's promise to you, and you choose to commit your plans and future to Him.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Now back to Ron.
• 26:40
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