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Rise Together Podcast

111: No One Should Have to Struggle in Silence: Kayla Stoecklein on Moving Forward from Suicide

Rise Together Podcast

Dave Hollis

Business, Health & Fitness, Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.611.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week Dave sits down with Kayla Stoecklein, an author and mental health advocate who has transformed unimaginable loss into a mission that's transforming the world. A pastor's wife, Kayla found her world turned upside down when her husband Andrew took his own life in August of 2018 after an ongoing struggle with depression. Forced to reckon with a world that had never properly prepared her to deal with mental illness, Kayla decided to devote herself to ending the stigma surrounding suicide and offer a message of hope to those who feel like it's been lost forever. You can learn more about Kayla's incredible work at her website: https://www.kaylastoecklein.com and pre-order her upcoming book Fear Gone Wild now: https://bookshop.org/books/fear-gone-wild-a-story-of-mental-illness-suicide-and-hope-through-loss/9781400217670 -- Dave's first-ever book, Get Out Of Your Own Way, is OUT NOW! This book is for everyone, and we mean EVERYONE: women who loved Girl Wash Your Face, men who did or didn't read Girl Wash Your Face, personal development skeptics, personal development devotees, anyone and everyone who has a life and knows it could maybe get a little better if they could just get out of their own dang way! LET'S GOOOOOO! -> http://bit.ly/gooyowpod You asked for it, you got it! Coaching with Dave is here! All year long Dave is offering courses in both life and career, all designed to help you identify where you are now, where you want to go, and how you’ll get there. After working his way through Disney to become a President of Theatrical Distribution, then making the conscious decision to be an entrepreneur, Dave knows exactly what it takes to be successful no matter which direction your life - or career - takes you. Now you can have exclusive access to his experience and wisdom, with monthly challenges and actionable results! Follow this link to see what coaching can do for YOU! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What would the world look like if we all pushed ourselves to have candid conversations with

0:08.4

people who didn't look like us, think like us, or live like us?

0:12.9

I'm Dave Hollis, and I'm on a mission to learn more about this world by meeting more

0:17.2

of the people who live here.

0:19.2

You may not always agree with everything you hear, but I guarantee you'll come away more

0:23.6

informed on topics you might never have thought to seek out before.

0:27.3

This isn't just a podcast.

0:28.8

It's a community, and when we raise each other up, we all rise together.

0:41.6

Kayla, first of all, thank you so much for being here and agreeing to share your story with

0:45.9

our listeners today.

0:47.0

I would love for you to share your story in your own words for anyone who may not be familiar

0:51.9

with the place that you have come from.

0:54.1

Sure, yeah.

0:55.1

So, in 2018, my husband Andrew, who was the lead pastor of our church at the time, was

1:02.1

diagnosed with depression.

1:04.5

And it was really out of nowhere.

1:06.8

You know, he had been experiencing panic attacks, and so we were trying to get to the bottom

1:10.8

of them, and he was having them two to three times a week, and those really led to a massive

1:16.2

panic attack that landed him in the hospital.

1:18.9

And it was after that that we made the appointment with the psychiatrist.

1:22.1

We put him on a sabbatical, and we found out that he had depression.

1:26.4

And I'll never forget, I'm sitting in the psychiatrist's office with him.

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