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Jewel<\/a> was once homeless and suffering from debilitating mental health issues before transforming her life and becoming a successful singer and songwriter.<\/p>\n

The “Foolish Games” singer shared some of the traumas from her upbringing, including when her mother left their family when she was 8 years old, while chatting on the “No Magic Pill”<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

Her father became “physically abusive” once they moved back to his hometown, which is where Jewel’s “whole world really turned upside down.”<\/p>\n

JEWEL SAYS OFF-GRID ALASKA UPBRINGING WITHOUT ELECTRICITY OR RUNNING WATER KEPT HER GROUNDED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I made a promise really young not to do drugs or drink<\/a>,” she said. “Again, I think just cuz I had such an extreme front row seat to seeing what it did. It didn’t look glamorous, you know, it didn’t look sexy.<\/p>\n

“And some deep, deep part of me knew to be deadly terrified of it.”<\/p>\n

EN VOGUE SINGER DAWN ROBINSON SAYS SHE\u2019S NOT HOMELESS, CHOSE TO LIVE IN HER CAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By 15, Jewel was living on her own, and a few years later moved to San Diego<\/a> to take care of her ailing mother. Paychecks fell through and bills mounted by the time she decided to live in her car while her mom went back to Alaska.<\/p>\n

At first, Jewel tried to be optimistic about the situation, but her mental health began to suffer.<\/p>\n

“My panic attacks<\/a> were getting worse. My agoraphobia was getting worse,” she said. “I didn’t have food. I didn’t have water. I didn’t have … anything. I didn’t have gas for the car.”<\/p>\n

Jewel recalled her lowest point when she began shoplifting.<\/p>\n

“I started stealing food and stealing, like, herbs and things like that to try and … I had bad kidneys,” she said. “And then, it just kind of evolved into stealing things that weren’t food and things that I didn’t need.”<\/p>\n

JEWEL’S ADVICE ON OVERCOMING HEARTBREAK, HARDSHIPS: ‘IT’S WHAT WE DO WITH THE PIECES’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Host Blake Mycoskie noted a point in the singer’s memoir, “Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story,” where she described looking in the mirror at a dressed-down version of herself and realizing that stealing was about the fear that she would never be enough.<\/p>\n

“I think, you know, stealing for me really became a real addiction,” she said. “It was compulsive. I couldn’t control it.”<\/p>\n

While standing in a changing room and attempting to tuck a stolen dress into her pants, Jewel was hit with a difficult epiphany.<\/p>\n

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“I saw my reflection in the mirror and … I was a statistic,” she said. “I\u2019m a homeless kid shoplifting, and I\u2019m going to end up in jail or dead if this keeps going.”<\/p>\n

The musician leaned on a quote she remembered: “Happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have. It depends on what you think.”<\/p>\n

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From there, Jewel sa felt empowered to change her mind and change her ways to fully heal from her past. One unconventional step she took: writing everything down that she did with her hands over a two-week period.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t had a panic attack in two weeks,” she realized. “What I stumbled on was being radically present. Journaling about my hands all day … I literally would watch my hands open a door. I’d watch my hands not shake a hand, or whatever it was.<\/p>\n

“I’d watch my hand steal. I was so radically present that … I forgot to worry about a future that hadn\u2019t happened yet. It was so liberating.”<\/p>\n

She added, “I realized that fear is a thief<\/a>, and it robs you of the only opportunity you have to change your life.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/singer-jewel-reveals-shoplifting-addiction-homelessness-almost-destroyed <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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