50 Best Country Songs About Healing
Top Country Tracks for Finding Your Way Back
There’s a certain kind of quiet that comes when you’re trying to pull yourself together. It’s not all candles and soft lighting. Sometimes it’s headlights cutting through rain on a late drive home, or the scratch of a pen on paper you keep crumpling up. You’re holding things in one hand that feel too heavy, and you’re not sure if you’re setting them down or learning to carry them differently. The right song slips in and fits that strange in-between, where nothing’s fully fixed but something shifts enough to keep going.
These tracks know the difference between pretending everything’s fine and actually breathing easier. They’re the moments after the crying jag when the air feels colder on your face, or the kitchen hum when you’re making something to eat for the first time in days. It could be a dusty fiddle line, a steady steel guitar, or the voice of someone who’s clearly lived every word. Healing here is less about perfect endings and more like finding a handrail in the dark. Plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can hit that nerve, but these country ones lean into it without forcing a smile.
The messy part is how uneven the process feels. Some days you get clarity, other days you slide backward and have to hear the same song three times before it clicks again. You might blast it while cleaning, or keep it low in the background while staring out the window. Either way, these songs hold space for that unsteady stretch when things are mending in ways you can’t see yet. Here are the best country songs for healing.
Top 10 Healing Country Songs
1. 'A Little Bit Stronger'—Sara Evans
2. 'Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)'—Gary Allan
3. 'I Will Always Love You'—Dolly Parton
4. 'Bless the Broken Road'—Rascal Flatts
5. 'I Hope You Dance'—Lee Ann Womack
6. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
7. 'The Climb'—Miley Cyrus
8. 'Better Than I Used to Be'—Tim McGraw
9. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
10. 'Over For You'—Morgan Evans
Country Music for Emotional Recovery #11—20
11. 'Die From a Broken Heart'—Maddie & Tae
12. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss
13. 'Rolling Up the Welcome Mat'—Kelsea Ballerini
14. 'Choices'—George Jones
15. 'Holy Water'—Big & Rich
16. 'The Good Ones'—Gabby Barrett
17. 'You'll Think of Me'—Keith Urban
18. 'Redneck Woman'—Gretchen Wilson
19. 'It Won't Always Be Like This'—Carly Pearce
20. 'Someday When I Stop Loving You'—Carrie Underwood
Music for Overcoming Breakups and Hardship #21—30
21. 'Best Days of Your Life'—Kellie Pickler
22. 'How Am I Doin''—Dierks Bentley
23. 'Give It Away'—George Strait
24. 'Better Man'—Little Big Town
25. 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!'—Shania Twain
26. 'That's Why I'm Here'—Kenny Chesney
27. 'Doin' This'—Luke Combs
28. 'Follow Your Arrow'—Kacey Musgraves
29. 'I'm a Survivor'—Reba McEntire
30. 'The Long Way'—Brett Eldredge
Country Songs About Finding Hope and Peace #31—40
31. 'The Impossible'—Joe Nichols
32. 'It's a Great Day to Be Alive'—Travis Tritt
33. 'My Next Thirty Years'—Tim McGraw
34. 'Live Like You Were Dying'—Tim McGraw
35. 'God Gave Me You'—Blake Shelton
36. 'Humble and Kind'—Tim McGraw
37. 'Blessings'—Florida Georgia Line
38. 'Something to Be Proud Of'—Montgomery Gentry
39. 'Some People Change'—Montgomery Gentry
40. 'The Painter'—Cody Johnson
Country Music About Personal Growth #41—50
41. 'Don't Forget to Remember Me'—Carrie Underwood
42. 'The Baby'—Blake Shelton
43. 'Ready, Set, Don't Go'—Billy Ray Cyrus
44. 'Five More Minutes'—Scotty McCreery
45. 'Girl Goin' Nowhere'—Ashley McBryde
46. 'I'm Gonna Be Somebody'—Travis Tritt
47. 'The Underdog'—Aaron Watson
48. 'The Bull'—Kip Moore
49. 'My Place'—Carly Pearce
50. 'I Drive Your Truck'—Lee Brice
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