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Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other. ”
I think music is the highest form of healing. ”
I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life. ”
I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. ”
Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose. ”
I felt my whole life like I didn't have a family, and I needed one. So I had to build one, and you build one with faith, hope, and the healing power of love - or you end up the 'Unabomber.' That's the choice. ”
I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace. ”
By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle. ”
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process. ”
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. ”