Pricked

Christopher Booth is the founder of Awaken Music Productions and the ByChristopher, YouTube channel. He is a pianist extraordinaire, composer, and mental health advocate who through music is creating awareness about the importance of mental health and the role music plays in facilitating mental wellness in self and others. Today Kim and Christopher talk about mental health as part of health in general. They discuss the stigma of mental health, mindfulness, the neuroscience of music, and the power of music. Christopher shares his story and bumps on his music journey and talks about his Why's.

Show Notes

🎙️ Pricked Story 00:51
🎹 Christopher is an amazing pianist. 03:04 
🎶 His album Journeys was released in 2001 and "Reflection of Time" was released in January of 2021. 03:54
🎼 Christopher wrote Reflection of Time to heal himself from within. 07:08
📻 Healed vs. cured mindset and what music can do for us. 12:04
💉 Christopher was pricked with his Mom’s diagnosis.15:54
🔥 Mental health awareness and song “A Flame Within” 19:08
🌺 Power of music in healing mental health issues and Christopher’s work with Invictus Foundation. 23:56
☯️ Seven Weeks Focus is meditation music that Christopher created. 28:44
🦹‍♂️ Jim Brickman is Christopher’s hero for piano music. 33:14
🕺 Dancing in the kitchen with his daughter to music from Bruno Mars, Michael Jackson, and Elton John. 36:50
🧠 Music activates both sides of the brain. 38:00
📸 Fame was not the side of music Christopher liked as much as creating, teaching, and sharing his music with others. 41:12
⚡ What are his Why’s? 43:30
⚠️ Signs we can ‘catch’ to prevent someone from suicide or self-harm because not everyone can say, “I'm not doing well”. 48:22
🤩 Do something for yourself today, have compassion for yourself. 51:18


Connect with Christopher:
https://www.youtube.com/byChristopher
 Instagram: @awakenmusicproductions
 Twitter: @byChristopher1 

Connect with Kim:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-brown-sims/
https://www.facebook.com/kim.brownsims
Instagram: @kimbrownsims_


What is Pricked?

Kim Brown Sims is a board-certified senior executive, global healthcare & biotech consultant and health worker with over 35 years of experience across nonprofit, hospital and healthcare industries. Kim expresses the value of our clinical providers, nurses, doctors, social workers, mental health providers and discusses issues important to those on the front line, issues that the pandemic has brought to light, issues that have been in play for over 30 years. The Pricked podcast talks about the disruption and the innovation that's needed in health care through the policy changes that need to happen in order for us to truly make this an equitable and healthy world for all.