Shakira says she needed to get back to making music to navigate her breakup with Gerard Piqué ... adding grief isn't a linear process.
The pop superstar opened up about her split from the former soccer star in a cover story in GQ Spain ... telling the magazine she stayed quiet in the months after -- but, she couldn't really begin to heal until she started writing music again.
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Shakira explains it was hard to recognize all of her vulnerabilities and put them out there for the world to hear .