Author, singer, and Christian speaker Sheila Walsh told Leadership Journal,

The five years I was co-hosting the 700 Club were probably the five loneliest years of my life. I discovered the ministry is a very, very effective place to hide. If you're the kind of person who doesn't really want to deal with what's going on in your own life, if you don't really want to listen to the distant rumble in your own soul, the more you immerse yourself in helping other people, the easier it is to hide.

Everyone at CBN knew I had an open door policy, and people could come in and tell me anything. And we would cry, laugh, and pray about it together. But I never did that with anyone. There was no one that I reached out to and said, "I'm struggling here" or "I don't want to do this anymore." So I kept struggling with this huge inner turmoil, while the audience thought I was the embodiment of godliness. It was a very strange struggle.

But God loves us enough that he doesn't want us just to survive. He wants us to live.