“…reaching out to my friends about my depression gets ignored completely. Even with the best of people.”

As I read her words in the comments section of an already extremely sensitive and vulnerable post, I was floored by the replies.
”You need new friends.”
”Your friends are trash, f***k them.”
”They don’t deserve you, and you deserve better.”

All well intended to make her feel good and to call her friends out, but as someone who’s personally experienced this same reaction to a plea for help, I came with a different reply…

Instead of bashing her friends, I shared a lesson I’ve learned in dealing with my own cycles — which is: you have to learn how to dig yourself out of the hole.

So when that divine directive was given in October, to leave my corporate job in December, it was met with what Pastor Mike Todd calls “Crazy Faith.” And that leap has become the back story to one of the biggest blessings of my life-time, to date.