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Music with a Message Series Episode 10: I Love You
True empathy. Acceptance. Acknowledgement. Sometimes that’s all we need. As the structures of the world fall away so that our new way of being on Mother Earth can emerge, it’s important to have compassion and empathy for others, and at the same time if you are an empath or highly sensitive person, you also need to remember NOT to hold onto whatever feelings are flowing through you.
What Am I Going to Do? 7 Steps to Get Unstuck
As a singer, songwriter and motivational speaker I’ve experienced enough writer’s block, resistance and stage fright over the years to know that it’s not a sign to stop – it’s a sign that it’s time to get out of my head, into my heart and body, and get into a state of acceptance and presence. Here’s what I know about being stuck and freeing yourself.
Music with a Message Series Episode 9: Grieve
My song Grieve was inspired by what may well have been the very last beat my son produced. It was the last one he posted on his Instagram just 10 days before he was murdered. My elder told me my son’s higher purpose was to leave the planet with a bold message – gun violence awareness. Now, my song will carry Quinn’s spirit’s message, along with helping you to have some hope and healing on your own grief journeys.
Music with a Message Series Episode 8: Healing Song
Healing Song is a song I channeled for my son Quinn Taylor when he was 14, with my very first hand drum and my son’s 2 eagle feathers he’d been gifted by an elder and the elder’s apprentice for his incredible inner strength in the sweat lodge when he was about 9 years old. Some call it Quinn’s Healing Song or Brenda’s Healing Song, as it has spread like wildfire by countless other drummers and drum groups across Turtle Island because of its healing qualities.
Music with a Message Series Episode 7: Picking Up the Pieces
Life brings unexpected turns to us all. What I’ve noticed is that when we have unexpected losses, or when we’re bridging into a new life in some way, it’s scary! It can feel like things are falling apart. Well, and the societal structures we live in really ARE falling apart, so this just creates a sort of pervasive feeling – especially for empaths – of things falling apart.
Music with a Message Series Episode 6: Life After Loss Lullabye
This hand drum healing song brings you into the sweet medicine of your own love for the loved ones you have lost, whether by death, a relationship ending, or any other reason. The song is also an invitation to a soft shedding, layer by layer, of the person you were before the loss, and the life you wish you could have had. At some point after your loss, you will feel life calling you. Answer that call by being kind to yourself, and following your soul’s prompts.
Music with a Message Series Episode 5: Nothing But Love
We are made of Love. All kinds of emotions get to exist alongside that love but we are made of Love. By the way, those tears you cry? Those and the emotions you feel in grief are coming from the profound love you feel for whoever or whatever you have lost. This song is all about falling apart, about the emotional outpouring and relief that is possible if you stop trying to hold your shit together and instead just let yourself fall apart and allow your life to fall apart.
Manifesting Miracles through Spiritual Expansion
It’s time to really allow yourself to experience life – and to experience YOU more fully than you have before. The fine line between taking things for granted, being way too excited about something manifesting and because of that, chasing it away, and the middle ground of being present, aware, allowing flow and expansion to happen. Whatever you want to harvest, it’s not too late to plant those seeds! So get planting! Here is Brenda’s top 3 tips on how to manifest and create experiences you love…
Music with a Message Series Episode 4: Feels Like Sunshine
When this song came through, my life felt NOTHING like sunshine. It felt like darkness, pain and hopelessness. It was a lot more like “a little blue”. It felt like I was questioning myself over and over, what did I do wrong? What’s wrong with me? I felt like I’d lost my best friend – because I had. I had lost my friendship with the person I was calling my best friend for a lonnnnggg time.
Music with a Message Series Episode 3: Everything I Need
When you feel stuck, overwhelmed, anxious, angry, sad or any other uncomfortable emotions, parts of you might poke at you, looking for reassurance or acknowledgement. Be here for yourself… ALL parts of you. You have everything you need, as in, you have inner resources you may not even realize you have.