SZA has recently explained how she dealt with anxiety while revealing her mishap about not differentiating between therapy and life coaching.
Speaking with WSJ. Magazine’s for November Innovator’s issue, the R&B superstar explained how she had tried hypnotherapy, talk therapy, psychiatry and acupuncture to cope with anxiety issues.
However, she opened up that once she “accidentally” went to a life coach instead of a therapist who taught her about box breathing technique for lessening anxiety.
“After I had box breathed myself for three months and didn’t get better, I called her in a frenzy like, ‘I’m about to commit myself to an institution today, I need help!’ I said, ‘What form of therapy do you do? Dialectical Behaviour Therapy?’” said the 33-year-old.
SZA disclosed, “My counsellor was like, ‘I don’t have a clinical form of therapy because I’m not a licensed therapist.”
“I thought you knew that.’ It turns out she was not a board-certified therapist. She was a life coach,” added the American singer.
Elsewhere in the interview, the Grammy winner shared how songwriting helped her resolve personal problems in her life.
“When I leave the studio, I feel better and empty,” said the songstress.
SZA stated, “There’s no better sleep than empty-brain sleep, and that can only come after I’ve been in the studio for 10 hours and done something good in there.”