Other people as a resource: The peer group
My previous blogs on resilience have looked what it is, why we need it, and how we can cultivate it. This blog looks at other people as a...
Resilience Part 2
More tools for the resilience toolbox. My previous blog explored the need for resilience in the music industry alongside some cognitive...
Being a musician: Blessing or a curse, in what context?
Being a musician; Being a musician in the commercial environment vs being a musician in the professional environment. Combining my work...
Reflections on mental health in the commercial music industry.
As a professional musician and therapist I am always drawn to the media hype around the subject. When I started ‘Music & Mind’ there was...
Using music for survival?
Music and evolution I have often wondered how we as humans have come to engage, use and need music. Many of our human traits evolved because they solved problems of survival or reproduction, but how does music fit into this? From an evolutionary-reproductive position, music could be associated with many advantageous skills such as greater self confidence, extraversion and rhythmic prowess which could all suggest an attractive superior physical ability. When considering the
