“Your voice makes me feel spacious and taste caramel. Also, the content is soooo deep and enlightened. I can tell this song is written from lived experience.”
-Dr. Janine Inez

Song Toolkit

How is a song a tool?
A song is an object, not held in your hand but held in the body-mind, used to carry out a particular function.

Below is music to ground you in your body, refine your conduct, and bring you into right relationship with people and land, through honoring your complex, human experience.
We will change for the better when we are spoken to. And when we train.

What’s challenging you?

Click on I am to be guided to a song.

Desire

  • I am a little ashamed. Is it really okay to want what I want?

  • I am going for what I want, but my usual friends are falling away. It’s a little scary and sad.

  • I am curious about things that other people don’t seem to be curious about. I feel weird. Can I really let myself explore that?

Authenticity and internal authority

  • I am tired of relying on an external authority. I’m ready to lead myself from within.

  • I am ready to speak from a more authentic place. But I’m scared.

  • I am often wondering if I’m real. Is this my voice? Is this my body?

  • I am not wanting to take responsibility for myself. I’d rather blame others.

Sisterhood

  • I am a woman struggling to befriend and stay in close connection with other women.

My complex humanity

  • I am aching to visit the darkside of my soul. I know I’m not just a “good” person.

  • I am confused and angered by “forgiveness.” I grew up Christian and feel like I have to forgive even when I’m not ready.

  • I am supposed to be peaceful, happy, and enlightened already.

  • I am wondering how I’ve become such a volatile beast.

  • I am repeatedly helping people that don’t change and I’m fucking angry.

  • I am over this job. It doesn’t pay me enough. I just want something safe and stable!

  • I am stuck in the past. I hunger for things that aren’t good for me.

Grief

  • I am grieving and I need some help crying.

  • I am heartbroken. My loved one has passed.

  • I am happy and sad. How could I be celebrating and grieving at the same time?

  • I am a sad man who spends a lot of time on a computer.

Jill, I’d like to support the tending and expansion of this Song Toolkit by . . .