Stephanie Harrison

Yeah, I fell hook, line, and sinker for old happy.

Yeah.

So I often say that the reason why I can write and talk about it is because I know it so well, it affected me so much.

It was a long journey.

I often think that sometimes from the outside, these

And I believe that, oh, if I can just create this perfect dream life for myself, then I will finally be happy.

The experiences that people have to follow their purpose or their calling, they look very simple from the outside, but my experience is that it was very two steps forward, one step back.

But in order to do that, I had to disconnect myself from others.

So I was living in New York.

I had to try and be perfect all the time.

I was on a work visa, so I wasn't able to leave my job.

And it was just exhausting.

And I ended up being very lonely, very depressed, struggling with my physical health, struggling with my emotional well-being, with basically everything that you could think of because I was living in this way that was so deeply out of alignment with the true sources of well-being.

And I essentially thought, what are my options here to try and make one small step to move a little bit closer to a better life?

And so I realized that I could move, and I ultimately ended up having my company move me out to California.

where I thought I would be able to have a little bit of a different lifestyle and cultivate some of these new things that were coming into my life.

And eventually one day I found myself having a breakdown, lying on my bedroom floor, crying and realizing that maybe it wasn't that I wasn't trying hard enough or I wasn't doing enough.

And then eventually I was recruited to go work at another company in the tech space where there was a great work-life balance and culture.

It was a very supportive place to work.

It was that I was doing things in the wrong way.