The executive's wellness practices include breathing exercises, tarot card readings, mindful mornings with her daughter...and a dash of heavy metal.on a series of conversations with music artists and executives about the self-care practices they use to keep themselves on track, both during the pandemic and beyond.
I've actually been doing a deeper dive into my own mental health and what wellness really means. Those of us who are a little Type A…we tend to put our mental health below other things. That is not going to be sustainable for any of us. I think going through this pandemic has really put [mental health] to the top of the list, when perhaps before this we weren't really paying as much attention. It was easy to just go, go, go.
I definitely take a break from work. Even if I don't have time to go take a 10, 15-minute walk around my neighborhood, I'll go outside and I will literally tip my face up to the sun and shut my eyes and just be there for a minute, and then go back inside and get back to it. I find nature really refreshing and rejuvenating, even if you only have like one minute, even if it is between back-to-back Zoom meetings.
I joke that this is the dream job because people would come into my office at UMG and be like, “Are you listening to Enya?” I will fully listen to incredibly relaxing, chill music. I'm like a walkingCD advertisement. But also at the same time, I'm that person that sits in their car and listens to rock music really loud when I want to vent. That's the beautiful thing about music, it can really go all sorts of different directions and be there for you in any way that you need.