Gwen Stefani’s recent emotional turmoil has spurred her into writing songs.

The No Doubt frontwoman is dealing with a lots of upheaval following her split from British rocker Gavin Rossdale last August, which stop their 13-year marriage.

The 41-year-old Make me like you singer has since poured her emotions into audio for This Is What the Truth Feels Like, her first solo album in ten years, and he or she claims she found much security in songwriting.

“Suddenly I became empowered. It was such as a wake-up call. I was like: ‘This can be a gift’. I haven’t had the capacity to do it for quite a while but now here I am performing it again,” she told Britain’s Hello! magazine.

However, the Hollaback Girl singer asserts she had been hunting back in touch together with her creative side ahead of her divorce.

“I felt like I was in this particular cocoon capable to bust out. That was happening little one my life blew up during my face,” she said. “Writing this album am powerful. When I recorded it, it didn’t matter that maybe nobody would read it. I wrote enough for just two albums because I blossomed. It continues to be an incredible journey for me personally.”

The platinum blonde beauty also declared as a music artist this lady has experienced lots of emotions during her career before few years and contains often felt frustrated.

“I think you are going through different phases. With art especially, you can obtain blocked,” she noted, adding, “And with everything containing gone down in playing in the past 5 years, I just got blocked.”