Jewel #neverbroken
Jewel is an American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, actress, author, and poet. She has received four Grammy Award nominations and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Other than her immense success in music, Jewel uses her own experiences and platform to express tools in which aim to help take people from being a victim who merely reacts to a life they have inherited, to an architect who creates it.
All the tools and ways of life that Jewel advocates, she actually lives herself. Her mother left her when she was eight years old, leaving Jewel with her father until his addictions became too much. At age fifteen she was living on her own, and at age eighteen she was homeless. At this time she used meditation and mindfulness practices in order to keep pursuing her life. She wrote songs that told the truth about her journey and the struggles she had. Her song, “Hands” is what really got her noticed with its lyrics “If I could tell the world just one thing it would be that we’re all okay” and “worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.”
Jewel then went on and gave birth to her son, who she credits for pushing and inspiring her to create her WHOLE HUMAN entrepreneurial platform which aims to help people create a life in which they love by advocating modern day wellness and mindfulness.
Jewel has created her own website (www.JewelNeverBroken.com) and has written her own book “Never Broken” where she shares the mindfulness tools she developed to convert her pain into resilience. Jewel’s movement and story have really inspired me to take on a similar project as well. Your mind is a powerful tool and needs to be sculpted in the right manner in order to achieve pure happiness.
“We do not need to let our history or our loses define use except in the way we choose. We can use them as fuel to create real beauty, depth, compassion, and connectedness in our lives”
“A soul cannot be broken, we are never broken”
Below is a video of me in 2017 skating to “Mercy” by Jewel which is a song that portrays her platform that real safety is in vulnerability. This song expresses how “life will break our hearts, again and again and we’ll keep being broken until we remain open”.
