05/11/2025
Isn't it amazing how one song can reach straight into your soul, pulling memories, emotions, and forgotten pieces of you right to the surface?
Music has a way of transporting you back in time, AND can also meet you exactly where you are.
It doesn't ask you to be positive, productive, or to "get over it".
There are times during an abusive relationship, (and when you're recovering from one), when words alone just can't reach what still hurts.
But a song can.
The lyrics
The voice
The melody
The beat
The power
The emotion
Sometimes all it takes is a single verse or a chorus to remind you you're not broken, and the real you, the strong, powerful version of you, is still in there somewhere, healing.
And sometimes healing looks like sitting quietly with your headphones on, eyes closed, letting the music reach the parts of you that need it - mind, body, and soul.
Untangling the knots.
Calming your nervous system.
Reawakening the parts of you that chose to be small and quiet for safety's sake.
And in those moments, that's when the shift can begin.
No force. No structure.
Just allowing time for yourself, to feel again.
Because even in the smallest moments of peace - the right song, at the right time, can soften something inside you.
What's in your playlist that can break you out of a funk and get you all fired up again?
Let me know in the comments, I'm always looking for tracks to join Christina Aguilera's Fighter.