Epi 54 – Give yourself permission to free your voice with Elisa Keeler
Copyright 2019 © All Right Reserved Living on the B-Side | Website Designed by Tracey White
Emotional numbness can strike anyone in their life. Especially when we navigate tricky and hard times, which take a lot out of us.
In this episode I am trying to share my personal thoughts around the first few months of 2023, how I shut down emotionally because life was too overwhelming for me and how the song ‘Wild Flower’ by BTS member RM penetrated my ‘numbness bubble’ and allowed me to slowly return to life.
Entering a stage of emotional numbness isn’t something anyone chooses, but it can happen so quickly, without us noticing it until we are in the thick of it.
If you are experiencing anything similar, I hope this episode shows you that music can potentially help you start to feel again, shine a glimmer of hope (or shall I say sounds of music?!) and showt that that this won’t last forever if we find something or someone to help us out of this ‘numbness bubble’.
You can move through the emotions that need releasing and return to start living life a little more.
Link to the blog post I refer to in this episode: WILD FLOWERS – TIME TO OVERCOME MY OBSTACLES & SEIZE NEW OPPORTUNITIES
At the age of 17 I went to The University of New York at Morrisville where I studied musical Instrument repair. With diploma in hand, I applied for work but found that no music store wanted to hire me. So, I opened my own shop “Cole’s Woodwind and Brass” Soon after I married my high school sweetheart Mary Alice. through many serendipitous twists and turns, we raised our family with our little music shop. Today, after 45 years of working on horns, I reflect back with great appreciation for a life that has given so much. In an effort to give back I travelled to the impoverished nation of Haiti in 2016 to teach instrument repair. After returning several times, I founded Horns for Haiti Inc. in 2020, an organization that teaches band instrument repair and how to start your own music business. To date, we’ve trained dozens of musicians and music teachers how to repair and started two businesses. Billy Shop D’Haiti, Musical Instrument Repair and the Haitian Music Supply Company.
Click image below to listen to this episode on Spotify for Podcasters.
Press the play button below to watch the video for this episode.
Follow me on my various social networks by clicking the links below and don’t forget to give my podcast a follow on Spotify!
***HIDDEN TEXT DO NOT DELETE***
Section Below – Transcript Download
Responsive Setting – switched off for PC, Tablet and Mobile until transcripts are ready to be uploaded
If you’d like to read a transcript of the entire YouTube interview, please click on the button below to download a copy.
Love Music? Love expressing your life through it? Awesome, you are at the right place. It’s all about using songs/artists to share what we’ve experience in life.
Copyright 2019 © All Right Reserved Living on the B-Side | Website Designed by Tracey White