This originally appeared in Modern Songstress. What I learned when asking women about their experiences with sexism in the music industry. As a feminist singer-songwriter I often find myself at odds, having to choose my battles between confronting sexist experiences and building relationships that would allow me to move my career forward. I’ve worked with …
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(Originally featured on Modern Songstress). Crowdfunding is growing in popularity for independent artists as a way to get off the ground, especially for artists working on their first project. One of the biggest benefits of crowdfunding is it eliminates the need for funding from a label, giving you the freedom to release your album independently. There are …
January 20, 2015 After a recent conflict arising with my neighbours, I was forced to examine the nature of conflict and growth. I had to ask myself not only why this was happening and what the outcome would be on a human level. What would be the reason for such an intense conflict, and …
July 15, 2014 I want to be love, but I am not love. I wish I could say that everything I do and everything I pray for is loving and kind and beautiful, but the truth is that there is a darkness inside festering. The depths of humanity are not always kind. When my …
February 10, 2012 Our darkest moments can be our greatest teachers. For a year now I’ve been paying cautious attention to the events of my waking life and observing the stories I tell myself as though I were recounting a dream. This dreamwork on the human waking dream has given me some powerful insights …
December 14, 2011 There are few moments that inspire beauty and gratitude as much as the sorrow of a hurting heart. These moments interrupt our daily mechanical operations; force us to look squarely at ourselves in complete honesty and request that we face ourselves, naked, raw and real. When the heart hurts, its …
October 24, 2011 The universe is composed of infinite patterns. From those that constitute our behaviour as humans, to the fractals of dance that map the growth of flora, to the images that we can observe of constellations at astronomical levels. In our search for meaning, we may come to belive in certain illusions …
October 9, 2011 That love will conquer all is probably one of the most common of clichés. However, the resilience of love will overcome any resistance, melting away its force and disolving any obstacles in its way. Its power is to a subtetly which is both insidiously disarming and terrifying when uncovered for what …
September 8, 2011 I enjoy the common metaphor of roads and travel as a way of alluding to the many lessons we learn on our journeys through this earthly realm. I have been thinking lately about how central this is to the way we construct narratives of our life. We talk about the way …
Apathy is a necessary part of healing. I had the opportunity of learning this while going through a very challenging life experience that left me moving through extremes of raw pain and complete numbness. I began wondering what was going on and how I could suddenly stop being invested in my own healing. I was …