In 2014, Edwards was completely burned out from the daily grind of touring. She'd been out on the road since the release of her highly lauded album Voyageur in 2012, and mentally she didn't feel she could start work on yet another album.
Instead, she put her guitar away, moved back to her hometown of Ottawa and settled down in Stittsville, an small suburb nearby. She then did something that seemed to the outside world as a bit rash. She opened a coffee shop. In reality, the plan had been coming together for months. Edwards had an affinity for coffee, plus a minor background in the coffee and restaurant world. It was an opportunity for her to put down some roots for the first time in many years, and she took it.
She called the shop Quitters. It was a running inside joke with a bandmade. Since its opening, Quitters has become a pseudo community center for Stittsville. A place for community news, gossip, and after the construction of a small stage, live music.
In 2018, a chance phone call from Maren Morris led to some co-writing, which eventually led to some solo songwriting, which (to the delight of an army of fans) led to Total Freedom - the album Edwards released in the summer of 2020.
She shared some live performances from the stage she built at Quitters.