By India McCarty
For Christian singer Katy Nichole, pain can be turned into “your greatest purpose.”
“I’ve spent so many years not wanting to put a name to it, because if I put a name to it, it becomes more real to me, and it also becomes more real to other people, so I was scared that they might not want to listen anymore,” she said of her mental health struggles on an episode of THE WALLY SHOW.
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Nichole explained, “I had to turn ‘I have a panic disorder and OCD,’ into ‘Hey, guys, I might not be healed, and I might still be in this process of healing, but I can tell you right now that the Lord is using this, and He’s going to use it in your life, too. No matter how painful it seems, no matter how endless it seems, He’s still going to use that somehow.’”
“We look at our pain and we think about it in a way of, like, ‘Oh, that’s never going to go away,’” she said. “It doesn’t have to define you. It actually — it can turn into your greatest purpose in life.”
Nichole has been open about her struggles with mental health. In an interview with Church Leaders, she discussed how “God can use” your dark moments.
“I take a very low dose of an antidepressant. Without it, I wouldn’t want to be alive,” she explained. “God didn’t take [my depression] away, but He did in fact give me the blessings and the resources in order to go through it together. He is leading me through this, and He is giving me things that are actually bringing me healing along the way.”
It’s a topic Nichole explores on her second album, Honest Conversations.
“I started writing those songs right after I released the first album,” she told CCM Magazine. “‘When I Fall’ was the catalyst that led us into what Honest Conversations is all about, and the message I really wanted to bring to people was that honest conversations with yourself, with others, and with God lead to healing.”
Nichole continued, “By the end of the record, I felt like I was saying, ‘My healing journey hasn’t ended, but I’ve started healing now’…Because healing is something that you’ll do for the rest of your life until we reach eternity. That’s when we’re ultimately healed. We have to trust the process, and continue to follow Jesus in it.”
Through her open and honest lyrics, Nichole has turned her pain into purpose — and inspires others who might be going through the same thing.
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