How Lauren Daigle Defeated Loneliness: ‘I Know Who Holds Me’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Grammy award-winning artist Lauren Daigle discussed how she trusted God to help her overcome loneliness and anxiety brought on by the pandemic.
“For me, that was the hardest during that time was not having any correspondence or interaction with people,” Daigle told WGTS91.9 radio. “I didn’t realize the weight of what I took on every night during a show. I get excited. I look for those responses in people’s faces. I say, ‘God, where are you meeting this individual? How can I partner with You in bringing love and joy and hope to those people?’
“From that experience I started dealing with a lot of anxiety, a lot of depression, a lot of panic attacks and I was seeing a neurologist,” the musician continued. “I was going to therapy; I was trying to figure out what was going on. My life just felt like it was fully flipped upside down.”
Amid her mental health struggle, God transformed Daigle’s perspective.
“Through the panic and through the anxiety, I say, ‘God, You have to return to me the joy of my salvation,’” she said. “The true joy. I don’t want to sit here and go through life just maintaining. I want to go through life with exuberance, with zeal, with passion. I don’t want to maintain what I’ve created.’”
“When you allow God to come into those broken places and say, ‘I’ll return to you the joy of your salvation,’ it is like this beautiful lens gets added to your eyes, and you’re able to see through [it]. It’s like a glory filter, like walking through life and seeing the kingdom versus the things in the natural,” she explained.
“I know who has me, I know who holds me,” Daigle declared. “And pursuing even trials and tribulations with joy, I found myself really interested in what Paul talked about when he said consider it joy, my friends, whenever X, Y and Z happens.”
“Whenever troubles come or how he could be content in all things whether he was in prison, whether he was in a shipwreck, or whether he was king of the world. He found contentment in all things and that began to be the prayer on my lips,” the singer shared.
In September, Daigle released her full-length self-titled album, which featured 21 tracks.
“I want…the kindness of God to come in,” she said of the album. “I want them to feel that in the room, when they walk in, when they hear or when they’re playing it over the speakers, like when they’re listening to the radio when they’re listening to the album CD, whatever. Yeah, just the impartation of God in every moment.”
Daigle wrote on her Instagram, “The complete album is out now and I’m so glad it’s yours! I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Daigle:
Lauren Daigle recently released the deluxe version of her self-titled album “Lauren Daigle,” and while it’s her first album that isn’t purely worship, she says it’s most vulnerable project she’s ever released.
“I felt like there was this freedom that really came out throughout the writing process,” Daigle told the Des Moines Register. “Did this record feel vulnerable? Did I feel vulnerable sharing it? It wasn’t the intimidating vulnerability, because there’s that type of vulnerability. It was more like, ‘Oh, finally there’s freedom. I can share with the world more pieces of who I am.’ There’s a delight in that.”
By moving away from the genre that launched Daigle into popularity, she could address issues like mental health, which she would otherwise have struggled to tackle.
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