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If I Could Keep You Little
This past week as we've been preparing for my son's first day of kindergarten, I can't help but think about how the past 5 years have flown by so quickly. I remember scrolling through Facebook and seeing all the first day of school photos, feeling sad for those...
{GGB 71} On Being Innovative
I never fully appreciated the proverb “necessity is the mother of invention” until I became a business owner. It didn’t take long to realize that there are busy seasons in a private practice and teaching studio, and then there are slow seasons. Very, very slow...
A 10th Anniversary Surprise
When my husband Zach and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary last summer, we started talking about how much fun it would be to take a big vacation, just the two of us, for our 10th. And since he is an amazing planner and I love surprises, we decided he would keep...
Back to School: Songs to Ease the Summer to Fall Transition
The new school year is almost upon us, and for school-aged children, that means new classes, new friends, a fresh set of pencils, and for many, lots of anxiety around changing schedules and routines! Music has a unique way of helping us remember important information...
{GGB 70} Making Music for Ourselves
In Episode 70, Jaime and I are chatting all about the evolution of our musical lives: where we got our start as musicians, how we made music before becoming music therapists and before having kids, and how things have changed throughout the years since. All of the...
Learning to Make New Friends
As a kid, I always looked forward to the first day of school! I would have my new supplies packed perfectly into my backpack and would choose my outfit weeks before the big day. The most nerve-wracking part of every first day of school was finding out which of my...
Start of a New School Year
The following is a guest blog post by Lisa Barnett, a fellow music therapist and songwriter in Michigan. Thank you, Lisa, for sharing your wonderful resources with us! I am so excited to write this blog post for all of you. The reason why is that after much...
{GGB 69} Confessions of a Music Therapist
This week it’s just me, recording a solo episode for the first time since the beginning of the summer. I’ve been having so much fun chatting with my co-host, Jaime, and I hope you’ve been enjoying our episodes together, too. But in today’s episode, I want to address a...
A Bittersweet Rite of Passage: School Supply Shopping
As a kid, going shopping with my mom for school supplies was one of my favorite things ever. I carefully chose the perfect pens, folders (Lisa Frank, anyone?!), and notebooks to fill up my new backpack. That said, I wasn't quite as excited to take my son school supply...