โ๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ... ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด and that's what counts.โ
โ'Day by day, step by step, mile by mile, brick by brickโ -Whitney Houston
Prianca is a British-Indian songwriter. Prianca found strength in music to overcome some personal challenges and wrote songs that captured her emotional troubles. Music has played a cathartic role as she found writing lyrics allowed her to paint a picture of what she was experiencing at the time.
Passionate about helping others, Prianca RA aims to bring more awareness around mental health and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health through music. In one of her songs she sings, โeven though weโre hurting it doesnโt mean weโre not healingโ. Through this, Prianca shows that recovery is not a linear process and many experience days where everyday tasks are a struggle to do and they are constantly battling with their mind. It should be normalized in society to have these days and not fear consequences or fear that we are taking steps back in our recovery journey. Prianca is motivated to keep making music that would change views on mental health and impact listeners in a positive way; she says, 'If I can impact one person, if one person comes to be and says "Prianca your music really helped me through a difficult time", for me,that would be the most important goal to achieve.
What does mental health and wellness mean to you?
Mental health and wellness to me doesnโt mean that every day you expect every day to be all rosy and full of sunshine and positivity. There are days where life gets really hard and events happen that may put us off course and affect our feelings and mind. The events that affect our feelings and mind affect our mental health and wellness but there are systems to help how you cope in such an event; for example, the resources and helplines you outline on your site. For me on days where life is hard the light of hope in me doesnโt go out, I am at a point where I can feel so low and drained but know that there are better days and there is more to my life than what I am feeling presently. As Martin Luther King Jr said: โjust take the first step, you donโt have to see the staircase, just take the first stepโ. This message epitomizes my mental health and wellness strategy for the days where I find it near impossible to be productive and โhappyโ.
Tell us about your work as it relates to mental health and wellness?
I am a singer and songwriter based in the UK. I found strength in music to overcome some personal challenges and wrote songs that captured my emotional troubles. Music has played a cathartic role as I found writing lyrics allowed me to paint a picture of what I was experiencing at the time. I was confused about my PTSD diagnosis and it was hard to know what was going on with me. Many professionals and forums compared PTSD to being an out-of-body experience but I didnโt feel that; I was very much in my body but I was teleported to outer space living in solitude on a spacecraft. So I wrote the song SPACECRAFT BURNOUT as a metaphor for my PTSD: I remember feeling the way I was feeling during those months where I really needed support to come to terms with past trauma, I felt connected to my body I just didnโt feel connected to others, it was hard to communicate with my family. I felt alienated and I was living by myself on a spacecraft with a communication network that had a bad signal.
Passionate about helping others, I now want to bring more awareness around mental health and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health through music.
Can you discuss some of the personal challenges you have overcome related to your music?
Some extended family assume I want to be the next pop sensation or reach for fame. Then they proceed to tell me itโs hard to make it as an artist. I studied law and my family always assumed I would go on to become a lawyer. Law wasnโt the right career for me and Iโm about to embark upon a new career outside of music. I shouldnโt have to justify or face assumptions. I am an artist because I have a genuine passion about creating and preserving memories through my own music.
In your bio one of your lyrics is quoted, โeven though weโre hurting it doesnโt mean weโre not healingโ can you break down that line for our readers?
Sure! The lyrics โeven though weโre hurting it doesnโt mean weโre not healingโ basically mean that it is okay sometimes to take a step back from the commotion that life brings but that does not mean that you are taking a step back in your recovery journey. Like I mentioned before, taking a step back and having days where you donโt want to do anything because you feel so drained is perfectly okay. Weโre human, weโre not machines that you can just switch on and off. Iโm healing because before I had suicidal thoughts but now there is internal light within me where I know there is purpose and I want to recover from trauma I am dealing with. I am not in the best place or know what the recovery destination looks like, but there is a bigger horizon beyond my sight and I want to go there.
How do you prioritize self-care? What does a self-care day look like for you?
Ans: self-care for me is listening to my music playlist whilst taking a walk and getting some fresh air. I like swimming too so I try to swim when I can. I then like to sit back unwind and watch a feel good comedy (even if it's a comedy I have watched time and time again like Fresh Prince or Friends)! I try to stay off social media as well to detach myself and focus on my own environment.
When I have self-care days I reflect so ideas or lyrics could pop in my mind and Iโd write them down to then go back to later.
What advice would you give to your teenage self about prioritizing your mental health and wellness?
Ans: donโt push yourself harder or criticize yourself too much because you suffered as a result. You hurt yourself, you got drunk to escape the fact you were harboring past abuse that no one knew about. You focused on your studies and worked really hard to get good grades and go to a great Uni to compensate for the brokenness you felt inside and thatโs a good thing but now you know itโs okay to talk about what you went through. Youโre even writing songs about it and you are putting yourself first: being a workaholic isnโt going to fix the situation, it is an escape but it doesnโt lead to a destination.
Any final words for our readers?
Ans: youโre amazing for reading this far. We are all warriors in our own right and Iโm always open to reading DMs and replying. Iโll do my best to listen to you and give advice or just generally chat about whatever. If you have any ideas on how I can communicate mental health through my music or if you know more about other mental health issues beside anxiety, depression and PTSD, I would love to know more about them so I can create music to address them. The world would be a better place if there was more kindness
Contact: priancaramusic@gmail.com
Website: https://www.priancara.com/
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