I'm Listening: Alessia Cara

Alessia Cara on learning to love herself and the story behind her song, "Go Outside!"

Transcript

00:00let's start with the song go outside I know that's it's it's a heavy one but it's a great

00:08one and it's all about you know you felt closed off you didn't you just wanted to be you know

00:14everybody leave me alone type of thing and I think so many people feel like that oh yeah so how did

00:19you get out of that um it I think it just took a lot of time I you know did a lot of therapy as

00:27well in the last couple years which really helped um I don't know I think just like learning how to

00:32I mean it sounds kind of cheesy but really just like learn how to actually love myself and feel

00:37comfortable with who I was fully um enough to understand that I deserve happiness yeah and

00:43joy and like those things are fun to experience and they're necessary in life you know I think

00:47sometimes when you're feeling a little down and you you get kind of comfortable you feel sort of

00:52comfortable in this like place sometimes of sadness and it's kind of hard to get out of that dark

00:56cloud because you just feel sort of safe there and comfortable there and I just had to remind myself

01:00like this isn't a good place to be in and there can be more it's not just who you are I think you

01:05can find joy and happiness you just have to like learn how to let those things in so long story short

01:09yeah it took about three years to figure out how to do that but I feel very happy I feel extremely

01:15fulfilled and more comfortable with myself and with my life than I ever have before so it's very nice

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