Andy Grammer mirrored on his journey to discovering self-worth over latest years.
Forward of World Psychological Well being Day on Oct. 10, the “Maintain Your Head Up” singer mentioned the significance of remedy, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I went down exhausting. I don’t know the way your pandemic was. Mine was not good,” Grammer advised podcast host Janine Rubenstein throughout Friday’s episode of “Folks Each Day”. “In hindsight, it grew to become one thing that I’m grateful for, however I believe for lots of us, it simply actually confirmed us the place we get our self-worth from.”
The 38-year-old singer continued, explaining: “Should you bought all of your self-worth from others or from work or not from your self, the place that it ought to be coming from, then the pandemic was actually, actually robust for you. And by you, I imply me. Wow. One hundred percent me.
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“It simply bought to a spot the place I needed to make it a precedence in my life to be sure that every thing up inside my head was understanding nicely and that I had some self-love and a few self-knowledge, and remedy helped me lots with that,” Grammer shared. “So I’ve been attempting to talk up as a lot as attainable, that you just don’t should get to a spot that’s actually horrible to simply make it a precedence in your life.”
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The cancellation of excursions and dwell exhibits, as a result of pandemic, was troublesome for the performer as a result of there “was no approach” he might “go do the factor that I like,” Grammer mentioned. However, in the end, it made him “actually dive into pleasure.”
“I’m, by nature, a reasonably glad man and I write music about this on a regular basis. And yeah, so I discovered a definition of pleasure that was ‘gladness not based mostly on circumstance,’” he defined. “And I believe once I learn that quote I used to be like, ‘I don’t have that. I don’t, I positively don’t have that as a result of I would like quite a lot of the circumstances in my life to be precisely proper for me to be actually glad’.”
“And in order that was sort of a cool self-learning second of, ‘Effectively, I gotta determine learn how to get this from myself. I can’t be reliant on exhibits or crowds or the fitting espresso or the fitting buddy group. I get there’s gotta be a approach that I can get it from inside myself and I’m engaged on it. I’m getting there’,” he recalled considering on the time.
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Grammer, who usually makes use of his music to advocate psychological well being, famous how quarantine made him analyze his personal pleasure, one thing he wasn’t acquiring from himself.
“So once you make a giant shift of all that, like a pandemic, it was excruciating for me, but in addition very enlightening,” he mentioned.
Whereas Grammer has discovered assist in remedy, recently, he’s additionally been comforted by songwriting and his spouse Aijia Grammer, together with their two daughters Louisiana “Louie” Ok, 5, and Israel “Izzy” Blue, 2.