Jewel On Mental Health And Music
Music has long been a form of medicine for singer-songwriter Jewel’s mental health. After leaving an abusive home at age 15, the musician did not have access to therapy, and instead had to find other ways to learn how to be happy. “The weird gift of my life was I developed tools for myself that worked and they were proven to work by neuroscientists, where you basically starve an old neural pattern and you begin to create a new behavioral tool that helps you build a new neural pattern and the side effect is, yeah, happiness,” Jewel, now 48, told Parade....