And...Just Like That, Most of My February Obligations are Over...

The Online Conference for Music Therapy is over for this year.

That is a sentence that always fills me with such joy, exhaustion, and wonder because it is a true labor of love - this conference. I enjoy it so much when it is not going on, and I curse my participation in it from the beginning while it is happening. I blame my perfectionist tendencies to want everyone to do exactly what I tell them to do the way I tell them to do it - emotional brain tries to take over. I just want people to follow my directions. That's all.

With the end of yesterday, I finished almost all of what is on my to-do list for this month. OCMT - check. sing about may - check. CMTE course for my own personal development - check. Here it is the seventh (right?) and I have only three more obligations to others this month - taxes with my new tax preparer, the OCMT annual board meeting, and contacting a realtor because I am tired of living under a couple that holds demon exorcisms over my head at all hours of the day and night. 

I have made it a priority to try to do some professional reading this week, and I am proud to say that I FINALLY finished Chapter 2 in my book of choice and then blew through Chapter 3. It is amazing how much easier it is for me to comprehend concepts outside of the psychoanalytical realm of music therapy. I am not sure why I don't understand these concepts, but there are so many words that I have to look up when I read about the original concepts of how the brain works that it becomes a bit overwhelming to my brain. I also have to wade through some of the comments that seem a bit judgmental about non-psychiatric theories and techniques that keep popping up. It is an interesting way to perceive my own practice - from the eyes of someone who thinks it is not as important as their own form of practice.

Ooh-ee. That is a train of thought that I am getting off right now.

So, I have to contact a realtor to see what I can do about moving to a new home. I have to get my taxes done this month. I have my weekly chores to do and some decluttering (which I have not done this week because of OCMT) to accomplish. It should be an interesting time. It is time to focus on other things.

Happy Sunday, and please make plans to join us in 364 days for the Online Conference for Music Therapy 2022. 

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