Music Therapy & Your Health & Marriage w/Destiny Boyum
What will sound have to do with your day and relationship today? Do you use music to pep you up and calm you down?
Perhaps, like me, you say, "Alexa, play rain sounds," often or have a favorite noise-cancellation headphone set you wear.
Do you like your commute each day to offer you a mini-silent retreat into less sensory experiencing or love classical music to aid in learning?
Do you find that in marriage or relationships, music and sound have added meaning to your romance?
Whether you think about it regularly or not, music has played a HUGE role in your life, and also undoubtedly, the music you enjoy is very nuanced to your particular biorhythms, culture, and personality.
This fascinating Enneagram & Marriage podcast experience is ALL about how music and music therapy can help to heal and soothe your soul.
If you think music therapy is new, Psychology Today's Greenberg reminds us that David of the ancient world brought music therapy to help King Saul's depression on a regular basis.
Yes, from monastic times onward to the modern world, music has ever marched on to soothe our weary souls, aid in memories, rev us up, and even to help us find courage in difficult times.
On today's podcast with us, we are so glad to have music therapist Destiny Boyum, MT-BC, who has worked with hospitalized children, adults in mental health settings and hospice, in addiction settings, and more to teach you all about the benefits of music in your life.
Destiny will specifically use music therapy tools to help grow you in your communication style together, lending tips from these five areas:
- Grounding tools for your own self-soothing
- Lyrics that may help to bring you closer together with understanding
- Entrainment- a special music therapy tool to help people find rhythms
- Sensory tools for sleep and intimacy
- Conflict tools for communication
I'm excited for you to tune in because this Music Therapy & Marriage Communication episode is truly one of the top ten episodes of the year in terms of the unique takeaways and new tools for your toolbox! We also have a playlist freebie for you made by my own musical daughter, Melody, that we share on this episode that was listener-inspired as you shared your fave songs with us by type!
