You Are Here Ebook

What happens when the map you were given no longer matches the terrain you're standing on?

For those raised inside high-control religion, leaving can feel less like changing your mind and more like losing your sense of direction. When certainty disappears, so can identity, belonging, meaning, and the ability to trust your own instincts.

In You Are Here, Jake Via draws from his journey through fundamentalist Christianity, pastoral ministry, church planting, international missions, and spiritual deconstruction to explore what comes next. Rather than replacing one rigid map with another, he offers a different way forward: learning to trust yourself again.

Through stories, questions, and practical reflections on authenticity, belonging, values, nervous-system patterns, and meaning, You Are Here invites you to step off the trail someone else made, discover your own inner compass, and learn to navigate for yourself.

You’ve ditched the map. Now you’re finding your way.

About the Author: JAKE VIA spent decades as an evangelical pastor, missionary, and professional Christian before eventually finding his way out of the system that shaped him. Today, he writes and coaches about life beyond certainty. He lives between Virginia and Nicaragua, where he spends his time chasing adventures with his seven kids, building things, and drinking an unreasonable amount of coffee and tea.