Trisha Yearood is opening up about a surprising treatment she used to overcome a devastating illness, with potentially career-altering side effects. In a new conversation with Bobby Bones on his Bobbycast podcast, Yearwood reveals she contracted COVID during the pandemic, and although she eventually recovered, her symptoms lingered.
Videos by Wide Open Country
"I would say I'm a long COVID person," the 60-year-old says (via American Songwriter). "I had all the brain fog ... People were like, 'You are in menopause.' And I would be like, 'Yeah, but this is different because I'm looking at a rolling pin and I can't name it. So, I either have early-onset Alzheimer's or something else wrong.'"
At the suggestion of a friend, Yearwood tried LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback System) therapy to help her recover. To say it worked is an understatement.
"I didn't tell anybody I was going because I was like, 'I don't understand what this does," Yearwood reveals. "But the first thing I noticed was I was sleeping better than I had slept in 10 years. It changed my life."
How LENS Therapy Helped Trisha Yearwood
LENS therapy is not widely known, which is why Yearwood at first hesitated to share how beneficial it was for her. She details exactly how LENS therapy works.
"So they put these little electrodes - it looks like you're about to get shock therapy, but it's not that ... and they hit little different spots," Yearwood explains. "I think 21 places on your brain. They'll hit things like retention, motivation, and childhood memory. So it's like you're going to therapy in a way, but you're not talking about it. Your brain waves are sitting in a rut if you loop or hit a block every time."
Yearwood clearly doesn't deal with brain fog anymore. She is releasing her new album, The Mirror, on July 18. The record, for the first time in her career, is filled with songs that she helped write. Yearwood was just 19 years old when a music executive told her she wasn't a writer. For the next four decades, Yearwood held onto the words as truth.
"I just thought, 'That doesn't have to be the truth about me, just because somebody says it,'" Yearwood says on the Today Show. "I started writing for me. I didn't ever intend to make a record."
