HEALTH & WELLNESS
EVERYONE HAS A STORY
Discover your purpose
By VIRGINIA KERR
I believe we all have a purpose. A why. As in
“Why. Are. You. Here?”
It took me a while to figure out my why. I
mean since I was 11 years old, I just wanted
to be in TV news. Why? Because I was
curious. I liked the idea of storytelling. And
yes, I liked the idea of being on TV
.
But if I told you it was to help other people, I
would be lying.
Fast forward to just over three years ago. I
was a TV host on the KMOV-TV lifestyle
show Great Day St Louis. I had done the TV
news thing for 12 years prior to that. I had
just suffered my second pregnancy loss,
and I was blogging about it. Just like I had
publically documented my journey through
my clinical depression and my binge eating
disorder. I decided to disclose this as well.
Why? This time to help people.
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I spent more than 20 years trying to be
someone I wasn’t, and covering up what
I was. A sad, lost, insecure child. The TV
career was the only thing that I thought
gave me an identity. It’s all I knew. It was my
perfect cover up.
It was when I found my true identity that I
found my purpose. A child of God put on
this earth to serve him by helping others.
I realized my past did not identify me, but
it did help me identify with others. Helped
them identify with me.
GAZELLE WEST
Now I can relate to loneliness. Hopelessness.
And now I can show them there \