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It’s a fact that different cultures deal with trauma differently.

How do you deal with it?

A lot of people in the Western world try to run away from suffering that was caused by any kind of traumatic experience - accidents and injuries included. We try to forget, we put a brave face on, but good-intentional sentences from people around us such as “Just hang in there,” or “It’s gonna get better,” don’t really help, don’t they?

But perhaps instead of running away from this or acting as if it doesn’t affect us, there’s a better way to deal with any kind of trauma - and that is moving towards suffering in order to process it.

We so often hear that music can heal. Dr. Tamara Turner knows all about it. As a medical/psychological anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, she’s spent over a decade researching how music is used for healing, particularly in North Africa.

This week’s conversation goes deep into the healing power of music for physical, emotional, psychological, and generational trauma – as well as ways to tune into your own body better. We also discuss why music may not be a universal language in the way people usually think and why she, as a Westerner, was so often told "Ma truhish" which means, "Don't let your mind travel."

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• For accessing show notes, links, transcript, and video, please visit: https://www.mayanovak.com/podcast/ep16-tamara-turner/

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