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<\/a>Jickling is now in a relationship, performing the music she wants to perform, and advocating for mental-health awareness. She is the recent recipient of an award from Anxiety BC\u2019s Writing and Multimedia Contest (in the multimedia\/24-to-29-year-old category) for the album\u2019s title track. That makes sense, considering the subject matter of the album.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe writing of the album just came really naturally,\u201d says Jickling. \u201cIt\u2019s a way that I can deal with stuff that\u2019s going on that seems insurmountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jickling says that writing and performing is beneficial to her in many ways, including on a therapeutic level.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very natural transition from accepting my mental illness\u2014saying, \u2018Okay, I have this and I\u2019m going to get help\u2019\u2014to \u2018I\u2019m going to write songs about it and start talking about it,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cThe moment I accepted it, I wanted to share, because that\u2019s how I process it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jickling combats the darkness in her world by writing about her experience; there is nothing more tranquil for her mind than getting ready to take the stage when it comes time to perform.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of the things that calms me down. It\u2019s a very strange thing,\u201d she says. \u201cI always say that I have off-stage fright. There\u2019s something about being on stage that takes away a lot of my anxiety. If I start crying for some reason, it\u2019s part of the show. And that\u2019s why people are here. They\u2019re here to see me do me. My performing strategy is not \u2018let\u2019s do a perfect show.\u2019 It\u2019s more \u2018I\u2019m going to be myself, I\u2019m going to be a human, I\u2019m going to show my flaws and sing my heart out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n