The year country music superstar Eric Church turned 40, he survived a life-threatening blood clot and headlined a Las Vegas music festival that two days later became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Months later, his brother Brandon died. In this revealing conversation, Eric tells Anderson how these events changed him, as a man and a father, and how he copes with the trauma left behind.
0:00 Country star Eric Church
2:33 Reflecting on the Las Vegas shooting
6:00 Performing at the Grand Ole Opry
10:42 Writing “Why Not Me”
14:46 A year of tragedy
18:11 Being open about grief
21:03 Country music reflects real life
23:39 Eric remembers his brother
25:33 Covenant School shooting
29:04 Does grief get easier?
34:08 Faith and grief
36:06 Processing grief year after year
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Love this Thank you Anderson and Eric
Life long church fan.. Im company with or understand eirc church. My sister best friend ended her life. .. I don’t know how to get through it
This is such an inspiring human connection we all need right now to be able to share and connect with each other. Much Love
Such a great interview!
This is the truth!!
Epic
I loved this one. My sister commented suicide over 22 years ago. I Miss her every day. Thanks so much for sharing this. I cried through it.
This was an outstanding, heart warming, mindful discussion & beautifully shared !!! Thank You Both! for sharing your loving human experiences !!! May the Good “LOVING” Lord, our GOD, continue to bless you both and your loved ones !!! JESUS said: love your neighbor as you so love yourself! YESHUA = Yes-He-Unites-All !!! for ETERNITY !!!
Please listen to the song by Stephen Wilson Jr song GRIEF IS ONLY LOVE THAT HAS NO PLACE TO GO
Second by Second…🥺💔😪🫂🙏❣️✝️ 🛐
❤ a wonderful interview… I knew nothing of Eric Church before he did The Sphere in Vegas w Kenny Chesney!
Pls try caps as Kenny does for eye relief…I sooo hate the sunglasses! They put up a wall somehow & we th😅no drugs whether or not!! A thought! Tnks for sharing yr lives here will sooo Miss Anderson!!
And it hurts when your kids stop needing and wanting you. It really hurts down in your soul like nothing ever
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 for you Anderson.
is eric still promoting bad habits to kids with his shttt music?
a.) Eric Church never had ‘sh-t music’
b.) Country music is meant to be about real life, Chief likes to drink after a long day. How would that promote bad habits?
My sister was beaten to death by her boyfriend 05/25/02 and about 6 months ago I was sitting in traffic and looked in my rearview mirror and thought I have my daddy’s eyebrows and he had my parental grandmother’s eyebrows. Then I couldn’t remember what my sister Chris’ eyebrows looked like and started crying right there. Like I have always heard grief hits you like a wave out of nowhere. I always thought that something should have to trigger your grief. Things like a smell or someone looking like this person or even a song. But it is true grief does come out of nowhere.💔
Advice:
I lost my mom when I was 11 (half my life ago) to something very traumatic. I woke up one morning to the realization that I couldn’t remember her voice or what she looked like.
I was taught to toss my grief aside and keep on going (which, as Eric said, isn’t a good idea. It’s the equivalent to throwing an important work assignment on the kitchen table and putting it off until the deadline; it’s not going anywhere by ignoring it).
With that said, at the time I thought about it as, _Okay, I guess I’m recovering now_ After I mentioned this to my therapist, I had a severe psych evaluation.
All of this is to say, close the door that is open that continually hurts, and open the door for good things to come.
Trust me, it gets better
and life gets better.