mental fitness for musicians

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  • Healing as Self-Retrieval

    Photo by Pixabay – A field of red flowers One of my favorite reads this year has been The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate. It’s a long book, and I’m still working my way through it, but it’s the most comprehensive acknowledgement I’ve found of the…

  • Struggling with motivation? just keep showing up

    Photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger This has been a week here, friends, and perhaps it has been for you too. I’m grateful for most things being status quo. But I’ve been sick for nearly three weeks now (way better, but still dealing with fatigue and a voice that hasn’t fully returned), and the extra nuisance of…

  • Processing post-election panic

    Where do you begin, when your worst fears seem to be coming true? How do you process it? And what do you do? Photo credit: Marek from Pixabay Back in 2020, when it became clear we might be facing a second term of Trump, my husband and I were fearful for our future. We relied…

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