Country Star Trisha Yearwood knows the secrets to a happy life and she’s sharing them. Here’s the 60-year-old Grammy-winning singer’s advice to finding the peace, strength and joy that’s already inside you.

Love Never Dies

“I remember being a young woman and asking my mom what she did when she lost her mom and dad. She said, ‘You’ll be okay. It’s a natural progression of things. You’re not supposed to outlive your children.’ As hard as it was to lose my parents, I feel them on a different level than when they were alive. I definitely feel they’re walking with me.”

Focus On Strength

“At this stage of my life, I feel stronger and healthier than I ever have. I made a decision about how I wanted to feel and how I wanted to age, and it’s all about focusing on strength, not the size your pants are. It’s hard to be a woman because there’s so much advice about who you ought to be, what you ought to look like. But once you live a little bit, you really start to understand what matters and what doesn’t.”

Let It Go

“We have children, businesses and busy lives — you can spend a lot of time worrying about what everybody else is doing. But when I catch myself stressing or trying to control things, I’ll say, ‘Let them.’ Just let people be who they are and do what they’re doing. It’s so freeing.”

Walk With Joy

“Happiness and peace are all about getting back to the simple things, and for me, that’s going out for a walk with my dogs. Watching them digging a hole until their face is full
of mud, wagging their tails and living their best life is so simple, yet it brings me such joy. I also love taking walks with my sister. We talk about everything from what we’re going to make for dinner that night to what’s happening in the world. Those little moments are reminders that joy is always within us. We just have to look inward to find it.”

Self-Care

“The No. 1 stress reliever for me is my music. When I sing, when I create, when I make music, I get to go to a totally different place, and it is a place of pure joy for me.”