You’ve Felt This Before
This is about Stephen’s real experiences—where attraction, control, and consequence don’t show up the way you expect.
Based on a true story. Only names have been changed to protect privacy.
What Is The Venus Fly Trap all about?
It's about many things, but one of the core themes is how we end up in toxic relationship, how do we get out of toxic relationship, and how to never get back in one again. The Venus Fly Trap is based on real events. It is told through narrative—but shaped by real people, real decisions, and real consequences. This is not a clean up version of events. And it isn’t simplified. It shows what happens when something that feels right at the beginning… becomes something much harder to step away from.
What It Explores
At its core, VFT explores:
- How attraction can turn into control
• How emotional intensity affects decision-making
• Why people stay in situations they don’t fully understand
• How perception shifts over time—without being noticed
• What happens when those patterns go unchecked
These are not exaggerated ideas.
They reflect real situations—
the kind people experience… often without realizing what’s happening.
Why It Feels Real
Because it doesn’t rely on fantasy. It’s built on small changes. Subtle shifts. Moments that don’t seem significant—until they are. Nothing feels extreme at the beginning. That’s what makes it difficult to recognize.
More Than a Book
Although The Venus Fly Trap is to entertain, it is also written to expose. To show how situations evolve— how people justify decisions— and how easily clarity can be replaced by emotion. Once you start recognizing those patterns… they don’t disappear.
Two Perspectives. One Reality.
Tomoz represents the experience— the pull, the intensity, the emotional reality as it unfolds. Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards represents awareness— the observation, the recognition, and the understanding of what’s actually happening beneath it. Both exist at the same time. That’s what makes it real.
Mission, Vision and Purpose
Mission
Help people overcome their fears, build self-esteem, let go of shame, accept themselves and each other for who they are. To build better, safer societies, communities, and a more compassionate world.
Vision
A society built on acceptance and freedom from fear and guilt. Where people value personal growth over materialism. A community grounded in inner and external peace.
Purpose
To help people live more from their hearts than their minds.
Written by the Yupik Elders
• We used to teach how to live. Now we teach how to make a living.
• We used to honor elders. Now we worship youth.
• The heart once guided the mind. Now the mind silences the heart.
"The heart is the only thing that is present. The mind is never in the now.”
The Venus Fly Trap is a call to reclaim our truth, to accept the light and darkness within us, and to live with purpose, passion, and prosperity.
As the Yupik Elders of Alaska teach us, we live in a reverse society: We must reverse the reverse society.