“At the end of a relationship, suppressing your emotions and cracking on is never going to be something you get rewarded for,” says Le Bon. “You have to learn how to put painful things down in a way that is healing and nourishing, rather than trying to outrun them. You think you're sidestepping something but you're really just lugging it around with you, and it only gets heavier and heavier. You have to sit down with it, roll up your sleeves, and stare it in the eye. “Writing and singing about being sick actually helped me to understand it differently,” she says.