This election year, the actress isnt holding back.
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Dana Elaine Owens, better known as Queen Latifah, has always had her hands full.
The 54 year old also uses her years of experience to guide her in finding that balance.
For that reason, she says she’s not afraid ofagingand even embraces it.
Anything you put your mind to is still possible.
Ahead, the superstar details how she walks the tightrope between feeling active and overwhelmed.
Plus, she advises on what to do when you’ve spread yourself too thin.
Queen Latifah was honored at the 2023 Kennedy Center Honors for her extraordinary achievements in the arts.
For me, it’s just getting in nature and looking up at the sky.
You know what I mean?
Or it’s just looking up in the sky and decompressing.
Music is a quick pick-me-up.
I’ll play my favorite song, or any song.
It could be one of my favorite rock songs.
It could be a ratchet, filthy song that you’re free to’t play around anybody.
It could be a gospel song, to swing in a whole different direction.
Music is the quickest wellness hack for me.
I can play any song.
It just clears the space in my mind and takes me somewhere emotional if I’m feeling numb.
Because people forget you might be numb, too.
You get in the habit of numbing your feelings.
Sometimes you want to feel, and as an actor, you have to feel.
For example, when I have a crying scene, am I able to cry?
If I can’t, I’m cutting my emotions off.
I live for the thrill of things.
My father always told me that replying “no” is as strong as saying “yes.”
It might just be some sound healing or something I can turn on and listen to.
It could be a yoga classsomething that’s helping me to breathe.
I feel it’s a year of yes for me, because I feel really strong this year.
And I believe her.
If I have an opinion, I have an opinion.
Or if I don’t need to say anything, I don’t need to say anything.
It feels like a box to me.
Gratitude makes me get out of my own mind and think about someone else.
Being grateful or being of service to someone else.
Doing something for someone else for a second, something nice.
It’s can just be complimenting someone or doing something small to make someone else’s life easier.
It gets you out of your own head a little bit, making someone else’s day.
Music is always an escape for me.
Music is my home.
My home planet, I think.
Always saying “yes!”
I was just getting to a point where I would have to step away and disappear.
And my mom was the only person who knew.
Queen Latifah poses with Adam Sandler at the 2022 premiere ofHustle, in Los Angeles.
I needed to be taken care of in a different way.
I’d also say there’s nothing wrong with asking for help.
We need help sometimes.
We are conditioned to think we don’t, but that’s not real.
I realized, “We need to all become a part of this.
We need to share schedules.
I need professionals to talk to me and explain how this goes.”
Sometimes, it was that someone else needed to work so I could just be a daughter that day.
Sometimes, you’ve got to just say, “This is doing me in.
I can’t carry this.
I’m falling and I need some help getting back up.”
So that’s what I did, and that’s what I do.
This slicked-back bun is the stuff of legends.
Nothing could have prepared me for her new look.
Footwear designers are on a vintage kick, and I’m all for it.
Plus, the breathing tip shes stealing from the Navy Seals.
The tennis star serves up self-care between sets.
\201cIts an investment in my self-care.\201d
Never say never, though.
Here’s why she backed out.
It all has to do with preserving her purest energy.
“I have marked my calendar.”
Selena Gomez’s mom is a self-taught wellness aficionado.
