Joyful Noises LLC

12/23/2025

Here is your II for December! Please register to join us so that we can continue to fill our cups and share our wisdom together:
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12/18/2025

This month, we’ve been focusing on some of the complex considerations around choosing and building our core values as we move into the new year. At the request of some of the folks I supervise, I would like to offer an intentional, grounded space to do just that - or to do whatever would be most helpful for YOU as we begin 2026.

We will meet synchronously on Zoom on Wednesday, January 14th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm CST to reflect on, envision, and plan for the new year ahead.

This “Grounded Gathering” is open to ALL. You don’t need to be a music therapy student or professional. You are welcome to bring a friend, partner, spouse, etc., and you may join us for part or for all of the time. The space will be yours to use in whatever ways would be most meaningful for YOU.

Our tentative schedule is:
6:00 - 6:15 pm CST - Meditative Listening Experience
6:15 - 6:30 pm CST - Check-In on Goals
6:30 - 7:30 pm CST - Coworking Time - I will provide links to a variety of reflection documents, AND you are welcome to use this time in whatever ways would be helpful and meaningful for you - planning, creating a vision board or art, playing music, dreaming, etc. You are welcome to stay on Zoom with us or come and go as you choose. You may have your video on or off. This is YOUR time.
7:30 pm CST - Stretch & Self-Care Break
7:30 - 8:30 pm CST - Coworking Time
8:30 - 9:00 pm CST - Check-In on Reflections, Accomplishments, and Goals

This gathering is free and will not be recorded. You will receive the Zoom link after registering. If you have any other questions, please comment or message me.

Please register to join us so that we can continue to fill our cups and share our wisdom together:
https://forms.gle/By9J31u4HDAenUYd8

12/16/2025

One of the exciting connections we made at Reader Nation this year was with Donovan Scherer of Studio Moonfall. We are very excited that they are carrying signed copies of Ruinwaster's Bane for any Wisconsin fantasy fans - while supplies last! You can also support them by purchasing a copy through Bookshop using the link in the post below. This is a perfect read for anyone wanting to escape into a brilliantly created fantasy world with characters you won't want to leave during your winter break!

Shop Local, Read Indie at Studio Moonfall!

Here’s Ruinwaster's Bane by JJasonHicks

With the very course of creation hanging in the balance, Aenguz Sidor, a wounded Akkeidii Warrior, holds the key to saving the people of Earth-if he can deliver the message in time. An unthinkable message from Lord Morgrom the Divider. A message he cannot share, and that no one may believe.

Following the unexpected death of his father, Aenguz is faced with a challenge to the death for the right to rule. Burdened with the message, he must decide what his legacy will be among his people. Will he die and be a savior or live and be a pariah?

His sudden capture leaves him lost far from home in the harrowing Lands of the Earth. He must find a way to deliver the message in time through old battle lines to the only people with the power to help save the Earth and shed the stigma of being the Last Emissary.

Pick up your copy at https://bookshop.org/a/9574/9781960481078

Stop by Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue in Kenosha, for more books by local authors and my friends from the indie publishing world!

12/11/2025

Here is your for December! Please comment below or message me if you would like a copy of my core values reflection prompts so we can continue to fill our cups and share our wisdom together!

12/04/2025

Last month, I shared that we are going to explore some of the complex considerations around choosing and building our core values as we move into the new year. As I was contemplating this topic, a colleague I greatly admire brought the question on the first slide to our peer supervision group:

If someone’s belief is in conflict with my identity, why do they think it is my identity that needs to change?

I would invite you to reflect on that question as I did. And then I would invite you to reflect on the questions on the second slide:

What are your values?
Your beliefs?
Your identities?
Which of these can you change?

Please comment below with any insights from your reflections so that we can continue to fill our cups and share our wisdom together.

12/03/2025

I know that my definition of music therapy continues to evolve as I have the honor of grounding and sharing the brave spaces we create in and out of the music together. How would YOU define music therapy?

What is Music Therapy?

The American Music Therapy Association, Inc. () defines music therapy as "the clinical & evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program."

If you are a Board-Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC), how do you answer this question? What is music therapy to YOU?

And, if you are not a credentialed music therapist and are curious to learn more, check out https://www.musictherapy.org/ (link also in bio).

11/27/2025

Here is your bonus for November! Please comment with your own gratitude chain so we can continue to fill our cups and share our wisdom together!

11/20/2025

This month, I’ve been sharing about the updates I’ve made to my pre-approved asynchronous course on the “Intersections between Ethics and Self-Care.” I want to give a special shout-out and thank you to the folks who shared the idea of adding time to create your own self-care plan in their evaluation of the original version of this course. I read every evaluation and appreciate the opportunities to refine my courses to better meet the needs of our community. Because of the feedback from those folks, you can now earn your 3 CBMT-approved ethics credits AND finish this course with a clear path forward to care for yourself, personally and professionally, in more ethical and sustainable ways.

I love feedback - input is one of my strengths on the StrengthsFinder, service and education are part of my core values, and lifelong learning is included in my vision for Joyful Noises. In December, we are going to explore some of the complex considerations around choosing and building our core values as we move into 2026.

So, before we get to that, I would invite you to reflect on and share about a time that feedback from someone else had a big impact on you - and maybe even on your core values.

Please comment below so that we can continue to fill our cups and share our wisdom together.

11/13/2025

Here is your for November! Message me for FREE access to my self-care plan template link.