“If we look around, there is always something to be grateful for and some kindness we can give.” - Katy Oberle
Stars and algorithms aligned to connect me with Katy Oberle, a singer-songwriter friend who I like to call a creativity goddess! She uses her love and talents both for mindfulness and music to share her gifts and practices for healing.
Following a career as a therapist, she now runs Katy Oberle Creative where she coaches individuals and businesses in mindfulness practices while deeply nourishing the creative lives of others.
On today’s episode we get grounded with Katy and hear her sweet songs, “Walden” and “Shine” with her beautiful soprano vocals and peace filled lyrics from two of her recent albums. We talk about the meaningfulness of playing music in hospital settings and how music provides connection, kindness and more love in the world. So grateful to Katy for sharing her music and wisdom with us on the podcast.
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A few Takeaways:
-Music saves us and helps us makes sense of our lives
-Creativity buffers our hearts against the hard stuff
-So many people need to write songs
-Capture chapters of your life through songwriting
-Songwriting is like scrapbooking, an audio collage of your life!
-The songwriting process can be intuitive and unpredictable
-Just like mindfulness practices, the more you can show up in your songwriting consistently the more like you’ll catch the muse