What's up, everybody? This is Paula Phelps, and you're listening to On a Positive Note.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and today's guest has made mental health a central part of his music.

Performing under the name of Nash, Garrett Nash delivers messages through music that might be difficult to voice in conversation.

His latest album, The Art of Letting Go, is a journey through the tumultuous emotions brought on by the pandemic.

He's here today to talk about how making this album helped save his life during the pandemic and what he hopes we all take away from it.

Let's have a listen.

Garrett, thank you so much for coming on the show today. Yeah, hey, how's it going? Thanks for

having me. I'm so excited to talk to you. Mental Health Awareness Month is May and your album,

The Art of Letting Go, is absolutely the best fit for this. So let's start by telling everybody why you named this

the art of letting go. The art of letting go was kind of a product of when the pandemic hit, I actually

was about halfway through making a record. And obviously, like it did for a lot of people,

the pandemic reset a lot of things for me. And it definitely reset my schedule.

And so I started doing what I knew how to do best, which is write songs to process

kind of the universal trauma that we were all experiencing.

And the art of letting go was actually a song that I had had from before the pandemic.

And it just felt like kind of the best summation of all of the songs that I was

creating during the pandemic because it was really finally clear that that's the only choice I had.

So this record was really inspired by All Things Must Pass, the George Harrison album, and there's

a song on there called The Art of Dying. So I think it was probably kind of a fringe on in that.

But yeah, it honestly

is just a product of many, many hours of deep meditation and processing and coming to terms with

these very, very daunting subjects of sudden loss and fear and wanting to be better friends with

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