Birthing Me Through the Darkness with guest, Stef Gavin

Episode 95 Join me as Stef Gavin shows his vulnerable side and talks about living with depression, He was a corporate accountant and was doing well by outside observer’s perspective. Yes, he was miserable. While others envied his success what they didn’t see were the tears on Sunday afternoon because he knew he had to go into work the next day. He was stuck. As he held onto his pain, his body started to respond. “…I ended up getting whooping cough. And I got it so bad when I coughed, I would literally pass out. I would just black out because the oxygen didn't get to my brain… and my boss at work wanted me to come in… I am literally passing out. I need to take care of myself. So, I took several weeks off. On doctor's orders in order to recover.  And I even went back a week early just because I knew how much demand there was for what I needed to do when I got back, my boss didn't speak to me for four days, and when she did it was to pull me into her office and there was the HR director sitting in the corner. And my boss reads me this long list of all the things that I was doing wrong.” The pressure then put him into a deeper depression. He began looking for answers, reading books about his circumstances, and started practicing self-help and looked for the support he needed. “I started to get much more in tune with my inner artist which had. Been shoved to the side for so long .You know many of the things that I'm really, really passionate about now are their birth in that really dark time in my life. So, you know that there's even in the darkest moments, I love the quote that in the darkest moments the stars shine brightest, right? That when we open our eyes and look for whatever light we can see, and sometimes it's just, you know, little pinpricks. You know we can't see very clearly. But if we head in that direction, that light gets brighter and the darkness that we're experiencing diminishes.” Stef Garvin Author, speaker, educator at Stef Garvin, the Story Architect empowers passionate voices to create greater abundance in their hearts and their wallets. After burning out as a corporate accountant and descending into the darkness of depression, Stef went on a journey to find joy and purpose in his life. That opened a whole new world to him, and within him. Whereas Stef once held onto life with xix his fingertips Stef now embraces life with open arms. lead author of Heart Notes: An Anthology of Inspiring Letters to Matters of the Heart. Stef learned how to turn tragedy into triumph. This has shown up in big ways, e.g., his recovery from depression, and the small, day-to-day activities when he has to dig a little deeper to keep going. You can join his circle at: shareyourlightcircle.com You can find out more about Stef at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theartofentrepreneurship Https://www.giftsintogold.com/