354-Tess Vergara: Abandoning Your Soul and Calling It Faithfulness

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Burnout, identity, and what it means to come back to your own soul.

A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes domestic violence and a season of deep despair. If you are struggling, call or text 988 in the US.

Tess Vergara spent thirty years as an accountant. She was the superwoman, the supermom, the one who could do anything God put in front of her. Then in 2012 she woke up and did not want to be here anymore. She looked in the mirror and could not find the woman who used to have no fear.

Most people call that burnout. She calls it a dark night of the soul.

Her story runs from the Philippines to Canada to the United States, through a marriage that fell apart over violence toward her two year old and a season when losing her husband’s visa made her deportable. She says everything lined up anyway. A job. Housing. She felt taken care of. And then that care slowly turned into I can do this on my own.

In this conversation she explains the four pillars she works from, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual, and what happens when they split apart. She shares what a priest who refused her absolution taught her about going direct instead of through a middleman. And she is clear that the soul is not something you fix. It is the light of God, and the work is letting it back into your everyday life.

Her line to keep. Under the wound is the gift.

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