Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're

here. Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions

we have about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships

and self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives

to the absolute full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we

navigate it together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So today we're

doing something a little bit different. So a few weeks ago my dear friend Dana Marie

asked me to be a guest on her new podcast, The Hope Collective Podcast. You guys have

heard from Dana before here on Girls Night. She was episode number four where we talked

about finding beauty and hope in the midst of brokenness. Dana is a dear friend of mine

as well as an amazing writer and musician and I know y'all just love her. So when she

reached out about interviewing me, Dana very gently asked if I might be ready to tell

a story, I haven't really gotten to share much of yet. You guys might have heard me mention

a little bit about this here on the podcast but over the summer I realized I was really

struggling with some anxiety and with some depression. Now I've been wanting to tell y'all

the full story of what happened. I just hadn't figured out how to do it yet but when Dana

reached out and asked me about this interview, I felt like this was the perfect time to

really talk about it. Now guys I have to be honest, I was really nervous about this interview.

This is the first time I've told the story from beginning to end and it's the first time

I've really shared the full thing publicly and so it's just a tender one for me to share

so I'm gonna ask for your grace with me. But I love Dana and I trust her so much I knew

there was no better person in the world to talk about this with for the very first time

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