In season two’s last episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown demonstrate the obvious connection between the “sixth stage” of grief and songwriting. Carefully separating the false platitude of attributing meaning to a horrible or tragic event, they support the perspective of discovering a new way of living with the loss and creating new purpose from the ashes.

Features original songs, Paper Mothers and Believer in relation to the topic.

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* 14:11- Karen’s song, Paper Mothers

* 34:35- Katie’s song, Believer

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* The Sixth Stage of Grief, Finding Meaning, article by Lifetime

* The Power of Meaning, Finding Fulfillment in a world obsessed with happiness, Emily Esfahani Smith

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What, if any, meaning have you found in experiencing a loss?

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s seventh episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss the complexities of the concept of acceptance. They highlight what acceptance is/is not, and explore living with the residual pain of loss while moving forward in an unfamiliar and new future.

Features original songs, Oleander and I Know What Heaven Is in relation to the topic.

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* 23:56- Katie’s song, Oleander

* 47:59- Karen’s song, I Know What Heaven Is

Episode Resources:

* Ho’oponopono prayer

* Karen Joy Brown, I Know What Heaven Is

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What feels unacceptable to you in your life right now? Take a moment to explain specifically what is happening and why you cannot tolerate it. Tap into where you feel the resistance in your body and read it to yourself in the mirror to allow the space for it to exist.

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s sixth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown dive into the depression stage of grief and unreasonable societal expectations to snap back to normal. The discuss losses both experienced and perpetrated and how they weigh us down personally and as a collective when we don’t feel the feelings completely, and how songs aid in that process.

Features original songs, Send Me a Sign and Sleepwalking in relation to the topic.

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* 19:27- Karen’s song, Send Me a Sign

* 37:25- Katie’s song, Sleepwalking

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* DSM-5 Bereavement Exclusion

* Johann Hari, seven disconnections that cause depression

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Brainstorm a list of your personal secret signs of depression. How does it show up through your sensory experiences- sound, sight, touch, taste, smell?

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss bargaining as a stage of grief and the subtle ways we spin our energetic wheels in a vain attempt to alter the past. They highlight self-awareness and kindness as we understandably try to avoid the pain of the present by bargaining for a better past or future.

Features original songs, Save the Day and End of the World in relation to the topic.

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* 17:44- Karen’s song, Save the Day

* 31:29- Katie’s song, End of the World

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* Why Don’t You Love Me No More, Bootleg Honey song on a City of Santa Rosa compilation album- The Out There Tapes

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Consider where you find yourself repeating “if only ____ then _____” in circumstances you’re grieving. Follow the logic to the end, writing the whole scene and see how that makes you feel.

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s fourth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss anger as a stage of grief. Leaning into and allowing the often rejected emotion as an important part of the grieving process is explored as a particular challenge for women in the patriarchy. The two demonstrate the usefulness of songs as a vehicle for healthy expression of rage and conduit for healing.

Features original songs, Mother and Line of Fire in relation to the topic.

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* 19:33- Katie’s song, Mother

* 38:28- Karen’s song, Line of Fire

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* Nightbitch

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What makes you angry? To the best of your ability, don’t censor yourself! This is a great one to express through motion, through using your voice in not pretty ways, to letting yourself just rant and rave into a voice memo, scream in your car, or big letters across your journal.

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s third episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss denial, the extended play version of shock. Tell-tale behavioral signs of denial are highlighted, and the two share how songwriting can help break the spell and move us forward without leaving the love for what and who we lost behind.

Features original songs, De Rien and 321(Summer’s Gone, So Are You) in relation to the topic.

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* 16:14- Karen’s song, De Rien

* 32:55- Katie’s song, 321(Summer’s Gone, So Are You)

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* Nezza’s national anthem in Spanish newsclip

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Think of an experience or a time when the rug was pulled out from under you, this could be a death, a break up, a job loss, a natural disaster, etc. Let your current self time travel to that moment and try to practice just being a loving witness to the part of you that had to deal with that shock, and just notice. What do you feel in your body, what thoughts come to the surface. Write, talk, dance, scream, do whatever feels right to let this past experience give you some inspiration or information.

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ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown delve into the “shock” stage of grief, sharing personal stories of their fathers’ deaths, and the waves of numbness and overwhelm that continue to ebb and flow throughout the grieving process. They demonstrate how songs and songwriting create a safe space to hold our disorientation and disbelief.

Features original songs, Got To Be and We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This (Funeral Reunion) in relation to creative recovery.

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* 17:17-Karen’s song, Got to Be

* 30:20-Katie’s song, We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Think of an experience or a time when the rug was pulled out from under you, this could be a death, a break up, a job loss, a natural disaster, etc. Let your current self time travel to that moment and try to practice just being a loving witness to the part of you that had to deal with that shock, and just notice. What do you feel in your body, what thoughts come to the surface. Write, talk, dance, scream, do whatever feels right to let this past experience give you some inspiration or information.

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown introduce the theme of grief and how songs bridge the gap left by culture’s unwillingness and inability to allow grieving its full depth and breadth.

They discuss the current conceptions of the stages of grief and the wide range of losses besides death which are made harder through society’s lack of recognition. Personal experience through the loss of their fathers, friends, and break up of their band provide examples of creativity's power to transform loss.

Features original songs, Forever and Lovely Like Lace in relation to creative recovery.

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* 19:00-Katie’s song, Forever

* 40:02-Karen’s song, Lovely Like Lace

Episode Resources:

* Kubler-Ross Change Curve

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What are you currently grieving that you don’t feel you have permission to grieve?

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ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In episode eight, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown look into the other side of listening; paying close sonic and emotional attention to what we hear in our own songs and those we love. They address classic pitfalls like self-doubt and judgement and offer the benefits of objectivity and discernment while identifying what makes a song work without falling for the fool’s gold of cookie-cutter hits.

They perform and discuss original songs, Real Time and Last Year’s Christmas Tree in relation to the topic.

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* 26:40 Karen’s song, Real Time

* 44:22 Katie’s song, Last Year’s Christmas Tree

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Who/what inspired you to become a singer/songwriter? If thinking of a specific artist, choose one song that moves you and identify specifically what elements bring the magic.

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In episode seven, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the fifth and final element of the Supernova Support program: inspiration. They uncover the highly powerful and practical nature of the seemingly fluffy concept, and how cultivating it keeps our creativity flowing in a beautiful cycle that enriches the creators of art as much as those who appreciate it.

They perform and discuss original songs, Joy Yet to Come and Ophelia in relation to the topic.

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* 28:47 Karen’s song, Joy Yet to Come

* 44:14 Katie’s song, Ophelia

* Clarissa Pinkola Estes | Women Who Run With the Wolves

* Sarah Peyton | Your Resonant self

* Andrew Scott as Hamlet

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: When was the last time you felt inspired? What moved you, what did you feel, and what beliefs or creations came from it?

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!