Anyone who has hung around with me for even a moment knows that I constantly talk about how Music and Magic travel together. From my own experience, I’ve discovered paths of joy, healing, and peace, insights into the deeper ways of the Elements, and connections with every phase of Life. Music has provided ways to …
I want to share some of my band KIVA’s songs of empowerment with you: Lovin’ Ourselves Into Love, A Call to Beauty and Empowerment. All three of these songs that I wrote and/or performed, were inspired by a lifetime of being treated as “less than” because I wasn’t thin. From being put on a diet …
As a musician, ritualist, and healer who has been so focused on shadow work over the past few years, I want to blog about a difficult life transition, and one that absolutely everyone can relate to. In my own personal life I’ve been going through what I would refer to as a “Tower Moment.” …
Songs That Save Our Lives Do you know those times when your heart is breaking, and then you hear a piece of music, and you feel your life has been saved? You were drowning, and then this melody, harmonic progression, lyrical phrasing, lifts you up and out, creates space around you where the crushing water …
I sat on the couch – five and a half months pregnant. My husband pointed at my belly and said, “I can’t do this. You are the strongest woman I know. You’ll be fine.” He walked out forever. And I spiraled swiftly and deeply into a depression that seemed to have no bottom. I stopped …
Healing is an art, and art is healing. You can harness the power of many art forms to support your well-being. Today I’ll share one method I taught my students during the 25 years when I offered a college course on Expressive Arts Therapies. The technique we’ll explore is creating a “self-soothing image book”. Let’s …
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