Learn about the powerful work of The Angel Band Project and the unique relationship we have with own own voice—including a playful exercise you can join in from home. Guests include music therapist Katie Down, back again after her appearance in Episodes 1 & 2 of this season, and Rachel Ebeling, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Angel Band Project, as well as Amber, a survivor who just recorded her Song of Survival with Katie and Rachel, for the Angel Band Project’s upcoming cd release. 

In this episode you’ll hear:

• The experience of healing through music that launched The Angel Band Project
• Ways music and playful, curious collaboration can help open up the heart to heal
• Details of a survivor's story navigating, leaving, and starting to heal from a harmful relationship, and how writing and recording a song helped her step forward to be heard
• Excerpts from The Angel Band Project’s original Songs of Survival album, including:
  
  
  • Time To Be Free by Dawn Mason, Lead Vocals Dawn Mason, Vocals: Courtney Arndt
  • Rise Up by Hannah Tombley, Vocals and Piano: Hannah Tombley
  • I’m Not Silent Anymore by Deb Busch, Vocals Deb Busch, Piano: Rocky Tucker
  • Just Keep Running by Tess Sundhausen, Lead Vocals: Tess Sundhausen, Vocals: Courtney Arndt, Guitar: Chris Helmick and Courtney Arndt, Ukelele/Vocals: Devon Cahill
  • Start Living by Erin Rieke, Lead Vocals: Erin Rieke, Accompanying Vocals: Heather Lawyer, Piano: Dave Drebes 
  • Home by Judy Rosen, Tibetan Singing Bowls and Melody: Judy Rosen, Violin: Judy Lindquist, Cello: Caitlin Hawkins, Double Bass: Courtney Arndt, Vocal: Judy Rosen

Buy The Angel Band Project's Songs of Survival on Amazon and cdbaby. For guest bios and related links, visit the episode details page at healmetoopodcast.com.

Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.

Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

The recording facilities and engineer for this episode were provided through the generous support of Fr. James Hauver, Pastor of St. Columba Church, and Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski of The Fr. Walter Outreach, inc., a nonprofit organization working to repair the effects of sexual violence and gender oppression. You can learn more about their mission to promote the true, the good, and the beautiful through spirituality, media, and technology at fatherwaltersparish.org.

Recorded & Engineered by Corey Kaup
Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

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