What Is Self-Care to You? What comes to your mind when you think of the word “self-care?” Do you imagine a day of decadent pampering? Do you imagine a weekend away? If your ideas require a lot of extra time, money, and effort, it makes it less likely that you’ll get around to practicing it. […]
Category Archives: Adult Mental Health
Blog posts related to adult mental health
[Video] Working with Holiday-Related Stress
The Holidays: A Time of Mixed Feelings The holidays are an interesting time. For some people the holidays are a time that they value greatly. While for others, it can be a time of sadness and grief. For most people, however, it brings a change in routine. And when our routines change, we can get […]
[Video] Music as a Tool for Stress Management
Adding More Stress Management Tools to Your Toolbox Welcome to the third video in the “Managing Holiday Stress” series. In this series I’m sharing with you different stress management tools so that you can make it through the holiday season healthy and sane. If you haven’t yet seen the previous two videos, you can find […]
[Video] Stress Management Tips
Tips for Stress Management Welcome to the second video in my video series on managing stress during the holidays. If you watched the first video in this series, you’ll recall that I said that some degree of stress is good for you. You may also remember that I invited you to notice your own stress […]
[Video] Stress: Benefits, Hazards, and Your Responses to It
‘Tis the Season for Holiday Stress Happy November! As we are now entering into the holiday season, I want to recognize that this time of year can be a stressful time for people. Yes, the holidays bring with them ample opportunities to celebrate, indulge, and enjoy family, friends and the gifts of the season, but […]
The Space You Create When You Follow Your Life Path
The Life Path of SoundWell Music Therapy Have you ever yearned for a place where you could be and create what you know lives within you? Yet, you weren’t quite sure if you’d ever find such a place where you could be? Up until a few weeks ago, that was me with my business. July […]
Take Pride: Be Your Unabashed Self with Music
music therapy with LGBT clients Since June is Pride Month, I wanted to share some snapshots of my work providing music therapy with LGBT clients. Over the course of my career as a therapist and educator, I’ve worked with LGBT and asexual teens who were struggling with their sexual orientation and worried about how their […]
The Benefits of Silence: Reflections on Well-Being
We live in a sensory-dense world. Almost everywhere we go, there is sound. It can be overwhelming at times. As humans, we and our nervous systems need moments of silence in order to ground, center, and self-regulate. This helps us to come back to ourselves and our “here-and-now” experience. Yet, for those of us who […]
Hearing Yourself as Music
Listen Deeply to Yourself. You Are Music. Your Life is Music I am MUSIC? My LIFE is MUSIC? Have you ever thought about yourself as a musical composition? What comes to mind when you think of yourself from this point of view? It can be a strange thing if you haven’t considered it before. You […]
Music Therapy and Trauma
Everyone experiences challenges in life because life isn’t easy. Sometimes these challenges benefit us because they can provide us with great opportunities for personal growth. Yet sometimes these challenges can prove to be traumatic. If left untreated or unacknowledged, these experiences can lead to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD can be challenging to treat. This […]