Not Your Average Music Therapist

AKA: tips for protecting your energy

In this episode, Sara and I dive right into conversation about being music therapists. We talk about growth, grief, receiving gifts, and so much more. This is a conversation you won’t want to miss! 

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Is it even important to think about what makes a music therapist a music therapist? Does it help to think about music therapists' qualities? Well, I think so. It only helps our growth to reflect on how far we’ve come and be aware of where we are still growing. Come along for the episode for a few attributes of a music therapist. What would you add to the list?

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In this episode, Louise shares with us her experience in the field of music therapy and what it was like to pursue something else. She studied and now works in higher education and has so much to offer! Listen to the end for some tech tips. 📲

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No one prepared me to file my own taxes and track my income, expenses, and mileage and I made a lot of mistakes when I started out. This episode gets into the nitty gritty of what expenses you can keep track of as deductions from taxes. I share my knowledge, as simply as possible, to make this easy to understand for those of us who have limited-to-no experience in this department. Also, you'll hear the new things that I am offering, so check it out!

Text version of this episode is up on the blog: kimbest.com

Happy bookkeeping!

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There’s more to music therapy than what we know in the country we reside in. There’s more to conversation than the text we see on a comment. Samuel and I talk about all these topics and more in this episode.

The following was mentioned in this episode:

Creative Therapy Umbrella episode: #82- Creating opportunity and working with refugee children with Samuel Gracida, MA

International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM):  iammonline.com

Dr. Sebastian Hachmeyer, The Uncontrolled Equivocation of Music Therapy: Health, Illness and Musical Healing Among the Kallawaya in the Northern Bolivian Andes

Dr. Susan Hanser’s book, Integrative Health through Music Therapy

Music Therapy Instagram Account I Love: @dwie_muzy

Sam’s Fans Facebook Page

Follow Samuel online: 

Instagram: @samuel.gracida

Facebook: Samuel Gracida

Why do we feel the need to apologize for doing things that are good for us? Let’s talk about it! Hoping this conversation helps you build up the strength to take the right steps for your wellness and own the decisions you’ve made.

Today’s guest shares about her experience getting her music therapy degree, stepping into her first job, and following the path where life took her into life-giving work that is not music therapy. The mantra that is repeated throughout this conversation is “nothing’s wasted.” May you feel that wherever you are in your journey in or out of the music therapy field, your time and all the experience you gain is not wasted. Enjoy the episode!

You are not alone. And you can do hard things. This episode is a bit of a pep talk for you.

With a wealth of experience comes the wealth of mistakes. Our guest this week, Brittany Tachkov, shares with us her thoughts about being a music therapist, learning, and growing. She touches upon aspects of her work in hospice care and her studies in counseling that infor her work and growth. I think we can all learn from Brittany’s thoughts! Soak up her insight and inspiration with this conversation.

The Resilient Practitioner by Thomas M. Skovholt and Michelle Trotter-Mathison is mentioned in this episode.