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EvenAndy Grammerhas found it hard to keep his head up in recent years.
TheArt of Joyartist, 38, reflected on discovering the importance of therapy during theCOVID-19pandemic as he appeared on Friday’s episode of thePEOPLE Every Daypodcast with hostJanine Rubenstein, ahead of World Mental Health Day on Monday, Oct. 10.
“So, it just got to a place where I had to make it a priority in my life to make sure that everything up inside my head was working out well and that I had some self-love and some self-knowledge, and therapy helped me a lot with that. So I’ve been trying to speak up as much as possible, that you don’t have to get to a place that’s really terrible to just make it a priority in your life,” Grammer said.
He also lamented the cancellations of touring and live performances, adding: “There was no way to go do the thing that I love. And it made me really dive into joy.
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Grammer continued: “And so that was kind of a cool self-learning moment of, ‘Well, I gotta figure out how to get this from myself. I can’t be reliant on shows or crowds or the right coffee or the right friend group. I get there’s gotta be a way that I can get it from inside myself and I’m working on it. I’m getting there.'”
The “Keep Your Head Up” artist, who has been known touse his music to promote mental health, explained that quarantine forced him to examine his own joy, which he realized he wasn’t getting from himself.
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“So when you make a big shift of all that, like a pandemic, it was excruciating for me, but also very enlightening,” Grammer added.
In addition to therapy, Grammer has been finding solace inwriting music, as well as his wifeAijia Grammerand their daughters Louisiana “Louie” K, 5, and 2½-year-oldIsrael “Izzy” Blue.
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