For months now, Ashley McBryde has been living out her dreams — taking home a shelf’s worth of trophies (including a first-time Grammy), racking up three new CMA nominations, two critically acclaimed albums and membership in the Grand Ole Opry.

几个月来，阿什利·麦克布赖德一直在实现她的梦想——把一架架的奖杯带回家(包括首次获得格莱美奖)，获得三次新的乡村音乐协会提名，两张广受好评的专辑，并成为大奥普里音乐奖的会员。

“It's just pow-pow-pow,” the 40-year-old artist tells PEOPLE with no small amount of delight and amazement.

“就是啪啪啪啪，”这位40岁的艺术家带着不小的喜悦和惊讶告诉《人物》杂志。

You can chalk it all up to her relentless drive and abundant musical gifts, but McBryde herself is also crediting something more karmic.

你可以把这一切归功于她不懈的努力和丰富的音乐天赋，但麦克布赖德自己也认为这是因缘使然。

The avalanche of good stuff has clearly been piling up since she started taking several important steps toward self-care, including making the hard decision, in June 2022, to give up alcohol.

自从她开始采取一些重要的自我护理措施，包括在2022年6月做出戒酒的艰难决定以来，好东西的雪崩显然一直在堆积。

“It’s sort of like I can hear the universe saying, ‘Kid, you were just in your own way,’” says McBryde.

“这有点像我能听到宇宙在说，‘孩子，你只是在用自己的方式，’”麦克布赖德说。

She says she quit drinking quietly, privately, making a deliberate choice to leave a public announcement out of the equation.

她说，她悄悄地、私下地戒酒了，故意不向公众宣布这件事。

“I decided that I wasn’t gonna talk about it at all until at least a year,” she explains, “because what I didn’t need was people on social media being like, ‘Ashley McBryde swears off alcohol!’ All people are gonna do is just wait for you to screw up, and that's really annoying. I did it for me. I didn't do it for social media.”

“我决定至少在一年内不谈论这件事，”她解释说，“因为我不需要人们在社交媒体上说，‘阿什利·麦克布赖德发誓戒酒!所有人都在等着你把事情搞砸，这真的很烦人。我这么做是为了自己。我这么做不是为了社交媒体。”

And so why is she talking about it now? Because people can’t help but notice outward changes, and they’re starting to ask. It’s obvious that she’s trimmer, fitter, and years have fallen of her face, which has long carried a certain world-weariness.

那她为什么现在才说起这件事?因为人们不由自主地注意到外在的变化，他们开始问。很明显，她变得更苗条、更健康了，她的脸也衰老了，一直带着某种厌世的神情。

Already a powerful presence onstage, McBryde has been turning in electric performances, most notably at Nashville’s CMA Fest in June, where her stadium set proved she’s more than ready for larger venues.

麦克布赖德在舞台上已经是一个强大的存在，她一直在进行电子表演，最引人注目的是6月份在纳什维尔的CMA音乐节上，她在体育场的演出证明了她已经为更大的场地做好了准备。