An artist talks about managing ADHD, anxiety, and anger through meditation and self-care. She argues that creators need to treat their mental health as seriously as their music, not just push through as machines.
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I spend so much time talking about the business side of the music industry, and I really want to talk about the emotional side, right? As an artist, you're a person, you're a human being, you're not a machine making music. So you need to have things in your life that support what you're doing. And one of the things that I like to do, because I'm really high-strung, I'm a little bit ADHD, I like to meditate to relax. What meditating does is it lets me calm down and relax and take my mind to a place where I can just clear it from all the clutter and the chatter that goes on in my head 24/7. So if you're somebody like me where you might have a little trouble at night falling asleep and stopping all the things that you're thinking about, meditation chills me out and it calms me down when I'm angry or I'm frustrated. But it comes from being mindful and it comes from a relaxed state. And the better you can treat