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I had moved to Los Angeles to pursue my dream of becoming a Rock Star. I achieved a certain level of success, too! Landing a spot on NBC’s The Voice, touring the country playing festivals like Bonnarroo and SXSW. I got a publishing deal, and worked with my musical heroes including Linda Perry, John Forte and Michael Franti.

But even after all that, I found myself overworked and undervalued, overwhelmed and underpaid AND overweight. The weight affected my physical health and performance stamina, but working myself to the bone, whiteknuckling my way through life affected my mental, spiritual and emotional well-being.

Something had to change.

I successfully lost 45 lbs by nourishing my body with the right nutrition and building physical strength and endurance, but something was still missing. The overwhelm and pressure to push myself to work hard and harder to prove to myself that I was enough became unbearable.

At the start of the pandemic, I freaked. As a touring artist, my income, that had been made playing live shows, went away overnight. By some miracle, I had an opportunity to get funding if I could demonstrate the impact of the art I created in my community.

This was a powerful moment for me. I always knew that I wanted to use music to change the world, but what the heck did that mean??

I spent time with myself and my thoughts. Playing the thousands of songs I had written throughout my life. I thought of myself as a child. Sitting on my bed with a guitar in my hand, feeling a deep longing, a burning desire…I HAD to write a song that would make me cry.

What was that about? Why did I need to cry? Why, in so many areas of life, we RESIST feeling the difficult thing, but in music, we WANT to feel the difficult thing?

And why did I want to cry? What the heck did I have to cry about?

I acknowledged, finally, the trauma I had been through as a child and how I used music as a tool for healing. If I could do that for myself, could I do that for others?

I started with young, poor people of color who had experienced the worst of humanity. Physical violence, sexual abuse, gang wars, murder, rape. Sitting in a room across from a young person of color who had been through these kinds of horrors…the fear, the resistance, the avoidance and mistrust, was palpable. But in the context of music, all the worry faded and what was left was simply the truth of their experiences. As painful as they were, music made them beautiful. And that was healing.

So here I am. I’ve walked myself through fires, written thousands of trauma healing songs, embraced my own pain and the pain of others with a courage that only a survivor knows and now my burning desire is to co-create YOUR Trauma Healing Song.