I’m often present to preside at baptisms, weddings, and funerals. Often it is for people I haven’t known for long and for people with a wide range of religious beliefs. Once I was at a rehearsal for a wedding. I hadn’t known the family long, but even in the short time we had developed a […]
Treatment
Twice in the Psych Unit part 2
(part 1 here) I began a suicide note which I worked on constantly until I had what I would call a nervous breakdown (now called a “major depressive episode.”). I began to shake and a thin, plaintiff wail began to well up inside me. With my cousin Jane rubbing my back to soothe me, I […]
Therapeutic music is good for the soul
Therapeutic music is good for the soul. But not only. I’m a musician. A guitarist. And I play music to help create a healing environment in hospitals, hospice, nursing homes, in yoga classes, and in behavioral health treatment centers. Some would say what I do is magic. It’s not magic. There’s science behind it. Therapeutic […]