Women's Health - USA (2019-06)

COUNTRY STAR

MAREN MORRIS IS THE

STRONGEST SHE’S

EVER BEEN, THANKS TO

A FRESH FOCUS

ON HER MENTAL AND

PHYSICAL HEALTH.

NOW SHE’S TESTING

THE LIMITS OF JUST

HOW FAR SHE CAN GO.

BY MOLLY CREEDEN

F L Y I N G

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If it’s a night when Maren Morris is performing, there

will be incense burning backstage. There will be tapes-

tries on the tables, twinkle lights, and scattered

Polaroids. Her crew will haul in a bar case stocked with

Casamigos, fresh limes, and LaCroix. “We like to vibe it

out,” says the 29-year-old artist, while sitting back-

stage at The Wiltern in L.A. Someone will lay out the

crystals, and someone may draw cards from the tarot

deck. Maren has an app on her phone—Goddess

Tarot—and she considers readings “a fascinating thera-

py exercise.” Sometimes the activity will last for hours

on the tour bus. “I do a three-card deck: past, present,

future. It’s not a crystal ball...but it gets your wheels

turning about how to think of a situation differently.”

For the past three years—from her Grammy-winning

breakout solo “My Church” on the 2016 album Hero, to

the gargantuan 2018 crossover hit “The Middle” with

Zedd, to her 2019 record-breaking album GIRL—

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