Dallas County Living Well Magazine November/December 2016 | Page 13

Still young at heart, mind,
body, and soul, Jewel’s mission
has always been to share her
thoughts and feelings with her
fans through her lyrics, which
has now led her to divulge in
even greater

detail.

Jewel recording music in the studio, at right,
and below, opposite page, fine tuning her
notes at the studio mixing board

Philip Macias photo

Still young at heart, mind, body, and soul,
Jewel’s mission has always been to share her
thoughts and feelings with her fans through
her lyrics, which has now led her to divulge
in even greater detail. Her long-awaited memoir, Never Broken, was a huge hit upon its
release in 2015, spawning an idea for something even grander––jewelneverbroken.com.
“My effort with the website is to give people a
place to get an emotional education,” she explains. “The reason the subtitle for my website
is ‘Make happiness a habit’ is because there
really is an aspect of learning how to train
your brain, and make it work for you, instead
of letting it hijack you constantly. That is a
part of us, and it’s a learnable skill.”
Jewel strongly believe that expanding one’s
horizons is just as important as maintaining
their current ones. By dabbling in acting, poetry and other creative outlets, she’s always

made a point to grow, an effort that paid dividends in September when her hilarious segment on Comedy Central’s Roast of Rob Lowe
became the unexpected talk of the show.
“I think it’s really important to put yourself
in uncomfortable situations as much as possible,” she says. “ You never get to expand
and grow if you don’t push yourself beyond
your comfort level. My life has been about
that. You build actual, real self-esteem from
the inside out when you give yourself an opportunity to rise to a challenge. It’s scary, and
it’s frightening, but when you prove things to
yourself, your self-esteem and your confidence
is built in a good, healthy way, versus from
an external source. I really like challenges.
It doesn’t always mean I win every time. It
really isn’t honestly about that. It’s how hard
did I try? Did I put myself out there? Did I take
the risk?”

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