- I would love to start off talking about
your mental health journey,
just because I think that's so important
for what everyone's going through right now.
Can you walk me through what that process
has been like for you?
- I guess my awareness of it and the awareness
that I needed help was about eight years ago.
Really, these last eight years have been about accumulating,
I guess, you know, the right tools that work for me
when I am challenged with major anxiety or you know,
a bout of depression.
I started into breath work and meditation,
and I think that just started adding on top
of the talk therapy that I was already experiencing.
But when I really started to get into my body,
with breath work is when things started to really open up
and shift for me.
- What is one of the most transformative tools
or lessons you've learned?
I feel like for multiple reasons, but you know,
I started in this business so young and it's like,
my nervous system kind of was like on stun, and you know,
And I think that led to a lot of anxiety for me.
And so one of the things that when I start to have a bit
of an anxiety episode or attack,
I'll tell myself and remind myself to allow it in.
They always say
It sounds challenging,
especially when you're in that moment,
but the reminder of feel it, let it in.
I know I'm not gonna die,
it might feel like it, but it's, I'm gonna be able
to move through this and a lot quicker if I
- Everything you're talking about are things
that we are conditioned to hide from other people, right?
We're not supposed to talk about all of this stuff,
but why are you making it your mission to share?
And there's such power in releasing ourselves from,
you know, the cage that we live in with all of the shame.
You know, there's, we have to live up,
we think to this one specific ideal of human
and it's just impossible.
And you know, I've been in the public eye for so long
My whole journey really has been about reclaiming
and bringing back these pieces of me into wholeness,
and I think part of that wholeness is being able
to be vulnerable and expressing show like who I truly am.
And it's been a long time coming and it feels so liberating,
it's like I literally am going and excavating and
- You are such a presence in the music industry
and at least for my generation, such an iconic figure.
I think everyone, when they hear the name LeAnn Rimes,
they hear you singing Blue and floating through the pool.
So if you had the opportunity to talk to that 13-year-old
girl who was thrust into the spotlight
in what we would now call sort of a viral moment,
what would you need to tell her?
What would you want her to know moving forward?
and I think all children are, you know,
and I remember like in my mid teens, I remember, you know,
being around so many people,
having so many people around me and having so many voices
in my ear all the time,
I never got disconnected from my intuition,
but it definitely gotten dampened,
where I started to lose trust within my own self.
And I think if I could go back and tell that little girl
anything it's to, you know,
And she knows what's right for her.
And you know, that's the most important piece
to stay connected with.
- So I wanna hear a little bit about your upcoming project,
the Human and the Holy which I've read,
was said to have been sort of a lifetime in the making.
So what was that process like for you?
Because when I hear some things the lifetime in the making,
I'm like Jesus Christ,
how do you remember stuff from the beginning of your life?
- Especially the last eight years of my own healing.
in my own practice, to utilize my voice for my own healing,
and, you know, that's something I've given out to the world
so freely for so long and it's the last thing I think about
to use for myself.
I've been writing chants my whole life,
I've been writing choruses,
which are repetitive, you know,
and I when thought what a cool way
to be able to make chanting more accessible to people
through this record.
And I hope that during this time,
this brings some light into people's lives
But I really wanna encourage people to chant with
this record because there's something so beautifully healing
about our own voice and our own spirit
that comes through that,
so, yeah, it's really about when you sit down and repetition
and you get to be with yourself,
it's really about opening up to yourself,
opening up to the universe and allowing and allowing really,
- And another part of this mission,
which I also think is so incredible
is that you have the Wholly Human podcast
coming out with iHeartRadio,
where you are continuing to talk about these issues,
however, without music. For you,
from everything we've discussed,
it sounds like they go so hand in hand your music,
your healing, and your mental health journey.
Was there any sort of hesitation about standing up
and just speaking and not having music
as sort of like a comfort blanket?
- Absolutely.
(laughing)
Absolutely, there was much hesitation.
I think it is such a piece of my journey and so many,
so many humans' journeys at this moment
to reclaim that voice.
And, you know, I have been so comforted by music for so long
and so comfortable in that area,
and there are so many nerves
when it comes to the podcast situation,
and this whole first season really
is about introducing a lot of people to, you know,
some of my teachers,
some of the wise people who have helped me along the way,
so I'm really kind of digging into all the things human,
all the things holy,
we talk a lot about spirituality too on the show,
so yeah, it's that revealing itself to me at the moment,
it's called the Wholly Human for a reason.
I don't want things to be edited out of that podcast,
I don't want pieces,
I don't want to feel like I have to perform all the time,
you know, it's, this is the human piece of me
where it's gonna be messy and I'm learning.