One of the most common questions I get asked is, “what music should I listen to for relaxation?” Or pain management. Or cancer treatments. Or anxiety. The list goes on, but you get my drift. Don’t get me wrong– I’m glad folks are turning to me to address this need! The difficulty lies in explaining […]
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end…” Green Day, “Closing Time” I’ve always been struck by that song lyric, probably because I never thought of beginnings/endings that way until hearing the song. There’s also a great truth in those words. Often, but not always, when we start something new, we also give up […]
“Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” ~Anne Herbert The other day when I was out running errands, I stopped at the Starbucks drive-thru for my usual coffee drink. When I got up to the window, I told the barista that I also wanted to pay for the order of the car […]
I meet a lot of people through networking lunches/coffees. When people hear that I’m a music therapist, they usually have lots of questions about what that is, who I work with, how it works, etc. And I also find that there are lots of misconceptions about music therapy out there– understandably, since it’s still a […]
Sing with me now– it’s beginning to look a lot like chaos, everywhere I go…. The holiday season is fully upon us– quite possibly the most anticipated and dreaded time of year. Yes, there is much to appreciate and be thankful for at this time of year. However, it also promises considerable stress and anxiety […]
A few weeks ago I was taking a road trip up to North Carolina for a weekend work retreat. Since I planned to make the entire 11 hour drive all in one day, I left my house pretty early in the morning. As is often the case in my neck of the woods, it was […]
I noticed it first a couple of weeks ago. The very tips of the leaves on some of the trees in our neighborhood were starting to change colors. Now it’s fairly evident, and some leaves are starting to gather on the lawn. The trees are still mostly green, but I know it’s coming and it […]
I was having coffee with a networking connection this morning. In the course of our conversation, we touched on the topic of personal life journeys. Specifically, we talked about how life has a way of never ending up where we think it will. So many of my friends and clients have said, “Wow, I thought […]
A few weeks ago I had coffee with a friend/colleague of mine who I hadn’t seen since late spring. We had planned for me to go to her house so she could share some of her extra landscaping plants with me for my garden. But the day before, she e-mailed to cancel because she’d just […]
Stress is part of our lives. Good stress, bad stress, we just can’t get away from it. Numerous research studies have shown that some amount of stress can be positive. We’ve all had the experience of having a job or school deadline that spurs us to action and motivates us to do better work. Or […]
