Derek Stone is an author, speaker, and a general contractor in Nashville. He wrote his first book entitled "Why Should I Forgive". In September his business will be 10 years old. He has over 20 people working for him. He is married to his high school sweetheart for 17 years. Together they have 2 amazing boys Ashton and Noah.

Derek Stone Vroom Veer Stories

Amazing story about how Derek became addicted to performing music in High School; that is an amazing high that is very addictiveWas abused as a child; his real Dad was out of the picture; Derek started avoiding the pain with drugs and alcohol Heard a voice is his head that told him he needed to forgive his Dad; the How to let go of the anger took a lot of prayer and inner workEventually was able to forgive his father and let go of that burden of pain and grief; learned forgiveness was essential to his spiritual growthWhen he stop performing music in 2014 the pain he felt was grief at losing his platform to share his message of forgiveness; that's why he wrote the bookWhen we forgive, we are not forgiving other people because they deserve forgiveness or we are say what they did was ok, but we forgive for ourselves to process the emotions and move onWhen processing emotions one must feel them for as long as it takes while trying to let them go; eventually you will move past them

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