Kelsea Ballerini Calls Her New Album 'a Love Letter to Self-Assessment': 'I've Done a Lot of Work'

Kelsea Ballerini is all about evolving as she gets older.

The country singer, 31, has been through a divorce, fallen in love again and maintained a booming career in her young adult life. However, with enduring so many changes, she's made it a priority to reflect on what she's been through in her new album, Patterns.

"Thematically, this record is a love letter to self-assessment," she explained in a recent interview about her new body of work. "I crammed so much life into my 20s, and I’ve done a lot of work to be able to stand by all that life, learn a lot from it and appreciate all of it for what it’s been."

"[Patterns] is about finding the ones that serve you and appreciating and celebrating those, and then finding the ones that don’t — where they come from and how they relate to your interpersonal relationships," Ballerini added.

Although the "Miss Me More" artist has come to a peaceful place in her life, she still struggles with her personal demons and works hard to combat them. "Ironically, self-awareness has not stopped me from doing things that I know are not healthy for me," she admitted.

Part of her process to curbing those tendencies has been going to therapy — which she said has finally worked for her after years of hating it. "I was young, and I was sad and confused, and I didn’t want to talk to a stranger that someone else was making me talk to," Ballerini explained of having to attend court-mandated therapy meetings as a child when her parents divorced. "Being a Virgo, being very strong-willed, especially when it comes to things that are tender, like mental health, I need to feel like it’s my decision."

However, in her mid-twenties, it suddenly began to work for her. "I’d been on the road for four years, and I was exhausted," the blonde beauty, who is currently dating actor Chase Stokes, noted.

"I was married [to country singer Morgan Evans], and I was looking around at all my friends who have 9-to-5 jobs and still live in my hometown, and I was realizing I felt really removed, really different. I was starting to have questions like, 'What is driving me? Is missing Mom’s birthday worth it? Am I okay? And am I happy?' I couldn’t answer these fundamental questions I should have been able to answer, so I got back into therapy, by my choice, and fell in love with it," Ballerini spilled.

Women's Health conducted the interview with Ballerini.