music, therapy, and me

I want to take myself out of a writing rut that I'm bumping around in these days. I have found that blog writing seems to be more interesting for me if I have about three days that are dedicated to posts with a common title and the other four days are open to whatever I want to write about. I already have Synthesis Sundays going on and there's Thoughtful Thursday (something that needs to be developed a bit more to make it a true series), but I want a new topic for Tuesdays. Now, I have done Tuesday series posts before. I used to do (Therapeutic Music Experience) TME Tuesdays where I offered up a completely original thing to do with clients. I adjusted that a bit for (New to ME) "NTM" TME Tuesdays - same type of idea. I am now tired of these series, so I am in search of something a bit more interesting to me. Now one of my little rules (that nobody notices except for me) is that my series have to have alliterative titles. Hence Synthesis Sunday and Thoughtful Thurs...

Crud. I am very frustrated about things at the moment, and the brightest light that I have in my outlook is that my region's conference is this weekend. I really need some music therapy inspiration, and I'll be looking for it in the two presentations that I get to attend this weekend. So, no pressure, fellow presenters - INSPIRE ME! I am feeling somewhat discouraged with things in my life at the moment, and I'm not sure why. I'm hoping that it is something to do with the change in the seasons, but I don't know. I have very little creative inspiration. I have no ideas for presentation proposals for the national conference (that has NEVER happened to me before), and I'm just feeling like every day is exactly the same. My attempts to change things in my life are falling flat. This is seeping into my clinical interactions as well. Group sessions have been boring - even for me, the leader! We have not entrained to each other well this week at all. I broke out the...

I've been struggling with blog post timings lately. I also feel like most of what I'm writing is not really all that interesting, so I've started posts that have never made it to the light of day (or the computer screen). I've had some late mornings, so blogging went by the wayside as I tried to get to work before the ice started or to finish coordinating my new music therapy room. I feel like I'm out of the loop when it comes to what is happening in the greater music therapy world. I have no idea what is happening in the area of state authorizations or education regulations or anything else. I feel like my music therapy world has shrunk to my little corner of the globe, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I still feel like I am in a rut when it comes to writing about music therapy. It's time to break out of that rut and find smooth ground again. You lucky readers, you! You get to go through my stream of consciousness right now as I try to figure ...