Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Kelly Cavitt
Hi Dr. Kelly, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My name is Dr. Kelly Cavitt. I am a licensed pharmacist in Texas and Louisiana, but my title and degree does not define me.
Today as a 41 year old woman, I am having to reprogram every aspect of my life. When I say every, I mean EVERY! The way I think, the way I speak, my lack of patience, a few others (lol), but most importantly I am learning to forgive myself and others for the brokenness and emptiness that I have felt since I was 10 years old.
To be completely transparent, I was molested by a married step-uncle at 10 years old, gave up my virginity to another married step-uncle at 17 years old, turned to homosexuality and briefly stripping at 19 years old, had three abortions, a curable STD from an unfaithful partner, a partially absent father and a mother that denied knowledge of my 10 year old molestation. Now, I’m a mother and a wife that has been clinically diagnosed with depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. This season of my life, I’m in therapy working to save myself and my marriage. Needless to say, I have a story and it’s just beginning to unfold.
I am a pharmacist and during one of my most vulnerable times of being a single mother in pharmacy school, receiving eviction notices every month and denied financial aid for the spring semester of 2011, God spoke to me. This is when I realized He has a sense of humor! After crying, praying and pouring my heart out for an hour, all I heard was “write a book about your life.” I laughed and said “God, I don’t even like to read unless it’s pharmacy school related and that’s pushing it! I’m also a very slow reader. Write a Book?” I smiled, dried my eyes and said ok God. Well for 13 years I allowed fear, procrastination, doubt and the overall feeling of being unworthy, to stop me from doing the one thing God had called me to do. Life was continuing to life and I found myself in a very dark place. However, at the same time, I wanted nothing more than complete transformation and to walk in my calling. In 2023, I wrote the book which is currently in the editing phase.
At the end of 2022, I began to take my walk with God seriously. I decided I wanted nothing more than to have a real relationship with God and to walk in the calling that He specifically created me to do. When I made that decision, I didn’t realize that I would experience a significant amount of suffering.
I experienced spiritual attacks against my body and my marriage. I then felt the Spirit of God tell me if I really trusted Him to give back the job as a pharmacist that He gave to me four years prior. I was extremely reluctant, fearful and disobedient for over a year. Finally, I said, “Yes God.” In July of 2024 I left my corporate position as a pharmacist. More suffering began, but for the first time in my life I trusted God completely. I understood that no amount of suffering that I would endure could ever compare to the suffering of Jesus. So, God knows what it feels like to suffer and He cares about my suffering. God said He will supply all of my needs and I trust that! Unsurprisingly, our needs are being met every single month.
I wish I could say that all is well, but that would be far from the truth. My life in every aspect is being tested, but I will persevere.
I am pursuing desires and dreams that only align with the will of God. I am currently in seminary school to receive a Master of Art in Christian Education. This degree will better equip me to spread the good news of our Savior, Jesus, and to gain a closer relationship with God. I have several business ventures that I am working on diligently to serve in the call God has given me and that includes: my book, a podcast called Pain Produced Purpose, a clothing line and a few others.
I am committed to serving God with every aspect of my life for the rest of my life. My ultimate mission is to use my testimony to awaken hope in people that has found themselves broken. Everything I do must fall in line with that mission and the ultimate will of God; which is to love God, love others and make disciples of all nations. I welcome the righteous judgment and conviction of the Holy Spirit to change me into the image of Christ. Therefore, I am becoming the disciple that I am seeking to make.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I guess I got ahead of myself lol, as I gave many details in my previous response. However, nothing in my life has ever been a smooth road!
Sexual Abuse as a child led to me being a very broken adult. I still struggle with trusting men, even my own husband to a very small degree.
I struggled to go to pharmacy school and to stay in pharmacy school financially. By God’s grace, He still allowed me to become a Pharmacist.
I struggled with mental health issues from anxiety, depression and bipolar 1 disorder which were all diagnosed during and shortly after pharmacy school. I began having suicidal thoughts about 6 years ago and ended up staying in a mental institution here in Texas for days. Once again, God was with me.
I struggled while pregnant and during the actual birthing process with both of my children. I had extreme cases of hyperemesis gravidarum with both pregnancies which caused me to lose 15 or more pounds during my pregnancies. Yet again, God covered me and blessed me with two healthy baby girls.
There are so many more stories of suffering, but I’m confident that all of them will end the same way as the situations prior, God will show up!
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a licensed pharmacist in Texas and Louisiana. I have been a practicing pharmacist for almost 11 years. I’ve worked in hospital, retail and long-term rehabilitation sectors of pharmacy. I enjoyed my position, but I didn’t feel fulfilled.
In July 2024, I left that career to pursue the call of God on my life, which is to use my testimony to awaken hope in other women that has found themselves broken as I once was; and to some degree still am. Currently, I am a student at Dallas Theological Seminary in Houston. I am pursuing a Master of Art in Christian Education.
I am also a co-host of the podcast, Pain Produced Purpose, which addresses the shame, guilt and weight of sexual trauma that has been endured by all women, but specifically women of color.
I am in the process of doing something awesome to give back to other single parents struggling in pharmacy school. This is a desire God gave me while I was struggling financially in pharmacy school and I will be so excited to reveal it in the latter part of this year.
As stated previously, I am currently in the editing phase of my book which is an autobiography of my life. I’m finalizing the first pieces of my Christian clothing line and I have a few family ventures underway.
The one thing I’m most proud of is recognizing that I can’t do anything or be anything without God. I don’t want it, if God is not the author of it. I feel so much gratitude to know that I am being kept by God. I sometimes wonder how I was able to function for 39 years without having a real intimate relationship with God. I never want to be apart from God for a second of my life.
It is that revelation of clinging to God, my passion to pursue Jesus and serve people with my unique testimony that sets me apart. I am the face of perseverance!
What matters most to you?
Spending eternity with Jesus and bringing as many people as I can along with me.
This matters the most, because it’s the only thing in life that matters. Jobs won’t matter when we die. Clothes, houses, books, businesses, podcasts, vacations and money won’t matter when we die!
What does matter is what happens after we die. We should ask ourselves the question: Did we do all we could while alive to first believe in Jesus, spread the good news of Jesus so others can believe and live like Christ?
If I can answer YES to all of those questions, then my life accomplished what God created it to do. And that’s all that matters.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://painproducedpurpose.carrd.co/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamkcav1?igsh=MWtjZGt6cmt1azRvNQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PainProducedPurpose
- Other: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pain-produced-purpose/id1784583478
Image Credits
Ahmad Sweeney, Sweenshots Studio (some photos)
