02/11/2025
For many years I was a music teacher, a musician, and an early childhood music specialist. Music was my world. It was how I connected. How I breathed.
But after I had my second child, everything fell apart. My mental health, my physical health, even my ability to play music or sing. I developed extreme neurological symptoms which left me unable to walk or talk. It was like my body completely burnt out and said, “enough”.
I had deeply held trauma and undiagnosed neurodivergence.
Layers I didn’t even know were there.
And no amount of thinking, analysing, or positive self-talk was going to pull me out of it.
I tried everything in my recovery.
An array of holistic modalities, naturopaths, doctors, specialists, psychologists, counsellors… you name it. Each helped in small ways, and I certainly made small steps forward, but nothing reached the depth of what was really happening inside me.
Then, when I started studying to become a therapist myself, things began to shift. I trained in both Holistic and General Counselling, Creative Arts Therapies, Meditation Teaching, and many other spiritual and energetic practices. I studied Neurologic Music Therapy and explored different models of Play Therapy through a depth-oriented, attachment-based, neuroscience lens.
That’s when I realised something deeply moving about where healing really lives. It doesn’t just happen in the mind. It happens in the body. In the nervous system. In the parts of us that have carried pain and protection for far too long.
I’m not saying you have to go and do a mental health degree to heal. What I’m saying is that I finally found where healing truly lives. And I found ways that work for me, for my family, and for the kind of life I want to build.
This has become my big “why” as the heartbeat of my practice. It’s what guides me each day as I share these discoveries with others and hold them with care as they move through their own unique journey.
One of those ways for me personally, is through song. Through this reclamation process I call “Singing to My Parts”.
“Singing to My Parts” is a creative process I’ve been developing that blends parts work, music therapy, and therapeutic songwriting. It’s about giving voice to the parts of us that feel unseen or overworked and invites compassion, rhythmic regulation, and reconnection.
It’s about meeting the inner voices that carry fear, control, shame, or exhaustion… our protectors, exiles, and wounded selves… and bring them back into relationship. I pair that with the creativity and nervous system regulation that comes through therapeutic songwriting and varied sources of sound.
This little song I wrote, “Hey Anxiety”, came from a moment when I stopped fighting that familiar rush in my chest and decided to listen instead.
When I sing to my parts, I’m not performing. I’m reconnecting. I’m in dialogue with my inner world. I’m offering presence, compassion, and real listening to the parts of me that once only knew survival, letting them know they can rest now. And every time I do, something shifts, the armour loosens, the body breathes, and the part feels heard.
If any part of this speaks to you, please stay close. I have a beautiful offering coming soon where I’ll be sharing how you can write, sing, soothe, and reconnect to your own parts too - No musical training necessary. It’s not about hitting the notes, it’s about reconnecting with self.
This practice has changed the way I meet myself. Maybe it will do the same for you. 🍃💖🎵 ✨
