Madi Diaz is aware of that self-care is essential to psychological well being.
Backstage at SXSW, the singer-songwriter explains to SPIN how she got here to that relization. She says that, after a few years of not making it a precedence, she’s now “significantly better at making the time” for herself, which in flip has improved her way of life as a touring musician.
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“I attempt to get up early and go for lots of walks,” she says. “Journaling has been really very life-saving for me. Songwriting is totally a part of the method. […] And I’m going to remedy.”
Whereas she feels that journaling is placing her fast ideas on the web page, Diaz likens her songwriting course of to “maintaining a muscle toned,” permitting her to uncover what she’s really feeling.
“I believe [with] journaling, as a follow, issues simply type of begin to fall out, and songwriting is type of like that too,” Diaz says. “I really feel like I by no means actually know what goes on with me till I’m singing about it or writing about it.”
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