Jan Willem van der Heiden discusses how trusting himself has led him to overcome some of his challenges in life. He talks about how he became involved in a fight club as a means of developing the skills necessary to protect himself, and how he eventually met a therapist who wanted to use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy on him for his trauma from when his mother became sick. Van der Heiden candidly discusses his experience with cancer, suicide, and a forest fire in Australia. He discusses how this experience helped him learn to trust himself and to be in control of his own safety.
