Andy Grammer says the pandemic has been “torturous” and “brightening”

“There’s no way I can do what I love,” said Andy Grammer of the show being canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Andy Grammer has also had a hard time in recent years.

The 38-year-old Art of Joy artist reflected on the importance of therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. When he appeared on Friday’s news Everyday podcast episode with host Janine Rubenstein ahead of World Mental Health Day on Monday, 10 October.

“I hit hard. I don’t know what your pandemic is like. Mine wasn’t great. Looking back, I’m grateful for that but I think it showed us where we got our self-worth from for a lot of us, ” he explained. “So if you get all your pride from other people, or from work, or not from yourself. Where it comes from, then this pandemic is very hard on you. And with you I mean me. Wow.

One hundred percent. So I just got to the point where I need to prioritize to make sure everything is working fine in my head. That I have self-love and some self-awareness and therapy helps me a lot with that. So I try to talk as much as I can about. How you don’t have to go to a terrible place to make it a priority in your life,” Grammer said.

He also regretted canceling tours and live shows, adding, “There’s no way I can do what I love. And that makes me very happy.

And yes, so I came up with a definition of joy that “is joy independent of circumstances,” he says. “And I think when I read that quote, I said to myself, I haven’t. I haven’t, I definitely haven’t, because I need a lot of circumstances in my life that are just right for me to be truly happy.”