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ISSUE #7

Can AI Help You Find Your Higher Purpose?
Chelsea Pegues

Grief changes everything. And, I know, as a fellow griever you’re like, Yeah, obviously, that’s why I’m reading this magazine. When I say everything, however, I’m not sure any of us, no matter how far down the grief road we are, truly understand how all-encompassing that statement is. When my dad died suddenly in December 2020 due to alcohol abuse, I lost my best friend and my North Star. The only thing that kept me grounded in the very early days was the actual ground. I hit it, running so much that I developed a neuropathy in my upper thighs from the leggings I was wearing. I took “numb the pain” quite literally.

Next came the realization that I was not happy professionally. At the time, I was an executive assistant, and I realized I could not bring myself to care about booking meetings, travel logistics, answering emails on this person’s behalf, making sure they had everything they needed every step of the way. Everything was trivial. My dad is dead. How could the mundane responsibilities of an office job matter at all when the best person in the world was gone?