Lewis Capaldi praises therapy after 'worst moment in his life' as he returns to music

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Instagram: can’t over emphasise how important therapy has been over the last few years in getting me back to a place where I feel ready and able to get on stage again… so it’s an absolute honour to team up with @betterhelp to be giving away 734,000 hours of free therapy for all of you ❤️ x #BetterHelpPartner

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00:00Tell me, why is it we're here today?

00:06A partnership with BetterHelp and with, sort of to reflect my experience of therapy

00:10and the importance I feel it has in my life and in other people's lives

00:14we're giving away 734,000 free hours of therapy

00:19It's an hour for every day, but it's not an hour

00:21It's a thousand hours

00:22It's a thousand hours for every day I've been gone, yes

00:24Yeah, so the importance of that number is that it's a thousand hours for every single day since I last played on stage

00:33Therapy has been such a massive part of my, I guess, last two years

00:38a massive part of the reason that I'm able to be a musician again

00:41I feel like if I can be a part of, you know, sharing that with other people, why not?

00:48Is there anything you've come to accept through therapy?

00:51I think I'll always be an anxious person

00:53I think accepting that that's always going to be there for me is a big thing

00:56It's about how I respond to anxiety and how I respond to a lot of stuff in my life is how I

01:02I don't like this phrase, but show up for myself

01:05I have neglected to look after myself in the past, both mentally and physically

01:11and I have made promises to myself that I haven't kept

01:15I think, for me, it's accepting that I'm always going to have this stuff there

01:20It's about how I respond, the steps I take to remain at base level

01:30I always talk to my therapist about staying on like a, steadying my platform that's within

01:35Yeah

01:36Like try to just, not every day has to be like the best day I've ever had

01:40I know there's going to be peaks and troughs but it's all about like, just try to like, remain as like

01:44sort of, I don't like the word centred because it's a bit more spiritual than I like to tread on

01:50but I think just remaining steady and sort of happy is like a nice thing

01:55Steady, nice, balanced

01:56Yeah, balanced

01:57Yeah, balanced

01:58Yeah, good om

01:59Yeah, balanced

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