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Aesthetics—When You Feel the Power of the Art: Why do the Creative Arts Work as Therapy? It’s the Aesthetics of the Art.
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Music Belongs in the Hospital: A Personal Perspective: Music Therapy Can be Effective for the Healing Process.
More and more, music therapy (and all the creative arts therapies) is being recognized and utilized by medical teams as a means of helping their patients, particularly in dealing with anxiety and stress, as well as pain perception, and coping with hospitalization. “Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within…
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Volunteer Spotlight: Tracy & Ryan Lowry
As a parent we all want to see our children have their moment in the spotlight when they feel good about themselves. A Place to Be provided many of those moments to Ryan. I can remember the first time we saw Ryan on stage, it was a very organic & authentic performance, and…
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The Healing Power of Beauty and Music: Personal Perspective: We Need Beauty in Our Lives, but We Often Don’t See It.
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Music and Spirituality: Personal Perspective: Longing For Something More
At one of the hospitals where I work as a music therapist, I recently had a referral to visit with a young man, in his 30s, who was in a coma and on a ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU). He recently had some sort of cardiac event. When I arrived at the room,…
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