Last week I gave you an exercise using music to help you make better informed choices about your intentions for the coming year. This week, Music Therapist, Jazmyne Craig, LPMT, MT-BC, will tell us more about how all of that works, and how Music Therapy dovetails with the kind of therapy I do. (Jazmyne is […]
Musical Identity: A New Year’s Challenge
“When we don’t know who we are, we act like someone else.” (Tiffany Sankofa) It’s Social Media’s Fault I was trying to wake up this morning and started scrolling social media. Someone close to my age had a 1980’s “mixtape” challenge, (youngheads click here for explanation.) You know I went happily tripping through time! […]
Growing Up the USA: From Reactive to Responsive
Being reactive and screaming might feel cathartic in the moment, but sustainable change is born out of centered responsiveness. Inde-WHAT-ence Day? It’s interesting to me that we are about to celebrate another “Independence Day,” right on the heels of a Supreme Court decision that goes against the will of more than half of the populace. […]
A Father’s Prophecy
“Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.” (Diane Arbus) This Is Us Let me start by saying that I am one of those people; The ones who cried every week at the TV show, This Is Us, and are feeling ridiculous grief over the show’s final season. It’s like […]
The Power of Loving (…and the Lovings that made it happen)
On June 11, 1967, I was seven and a half months old. On June 11, 1967, my husband, Amari, was six and a half years old. On June 11, 1967, “interracial marriage” was illegal in the Commonwealth of Virginia and 20 other states. If Amari and I had been adults at the time, […]
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