About Lifting The Soul Ministries

My personal growth journey started around 2011. I was mired in pornography and my marriage was struggling to survive. Through marriage counselling I was introduced to a Christian 12 step program for men struggling with sexual addiction. I spent 5 years participating with the group and learned many helpful tools. The first 3 ½ years I was determined to stop the bad habits I allowed myself to indulge in and went that entire period free of porn and masturbation. The last year and a half I began back down the path I was so determined to leave behind. When I had left the group due to a change in my living location and loss of my job. I could no longer afford the extra gas to participate. This left me alone again and isolated from support. I eventually went back to my old habits of hiding the problem and telling lies. In the late fall of 2017, we went through a tremendous stressful time my marriage was collapsing and the home we were hoping to put on our land ended up being destroyed in the move. During this time, I was caught in the act of watching porn. This ended up being the catalyst to the final days of my marriage. In July of 2018 I was informed by my wife she wanted a divorce and was giving me to the end of August to move out of the home we were renting. This led to me going into a deep depression and further isolation. After I received the news, I sought legal council and was advised to have a separation agreement in place before I leave the home. When I informed my wife of this and told her I would move out as soon as this was done, and the process was already in the works. She didn’t accept that and ended up disappearing with my three children in September. It took a little over two months of going through the courts before I was able to have police assistance to locating them. Due to the fact my two oldest children were of an age where they were deemed able to decide for themselves. My son was still of an age where I was entitled to have access to him and the further reason behind the elongated process was behind the premise there was no history of mental illness with my wife. Through this process I was able to not only locate my children but had been given custody of them just before Christmas of 2018. In January of 2019 my wife wanted to reconcile our marriage and attempt to bring the family back together which led to me moving in her at the place she had secured for them when she had run away. This lasted 6 months and she again claimed to want the divorce. This hit me even harder than the previous time due to the notion I thought we were making progress in the relationship. This time she waited for the separation agreement to be finalized and moved out with the children in November of 2019. During this time, I was isolated again and had no one I knew that was willing to help me deal with all that was going on in my life. In late February of 2021I came across an advertisement for an organization that was geared towards helping men change their lives for the better. I quickly joined the organization and began receiving support that led me traveling to Arizona for a 4-day event that changed my life and reignited the journey I had started many years before. I spent the next 2 and a half years participating in the online activities provided by this organization. Through their support I was able to go through the difficult challenges with the divorce of my marriage in July of 2021, and the passing of my dad in September of 2021. I also found a way to allow my voice to be heard by starting a weekly podcast Called life with Jason in January of 2022. Which I still produce to this day. After I left the organization, I was involved in I was again isolated to a large degree yet the tools and empowerment I had received from the 2 plus years has placed me in a new position to handle my life from a new perspective. I had a knowing there was more to come and couldn’t quite place what it was. Through prayer and faith, I resigned from my job of 5 ½ years In June of 2023 to forge a new path on a quest to live life differently. After several months of doing projects around my land things began to take shape all around the same time, I was presented with an opportunity to travel to Maui and help out on a farm that produces meals for those in need, and I was awakened with the vision to create Lifting the soul ministries and serve men through life coaching and mentoring them.