Music is my Therapy

Song(s): I'll Be There, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough/Blame it on the Boogie/Dancing Machine, Stranger in Moscow, You Can't Win, I Can't Help It, Earth Song/They Don't Care About Us, She's Out of My Life & Man in the Mirror Artist: Michael Jackson, From MJ: The Musical Sorry NOT sorry for the plethora of songs today (I wanted to do even  more,  but stopped myself. You're welcome)! Cleeeeeeaaaaarrrrr back in February (on Leap Day! 🙏) I was blessed and privileged to get to see MJ: The Musical LIVE and in person!! It was quite a journey to get to do so (see it play out here , here and here !) and I am FOREVER grateful it all worked out! 🙏💓🙌 It's definitely a highlight from my year! It was better than I hoped and imagined it would be! The cast was PHENOMONAL especially MJ...all three of them!! I was blown away! I was cheering, clapping and (quietly) singing along the entire show. The arrangements, dancing, costumes, acting, singing, EVER

Song: Dive Artist: Steven Curtis Chapman It's re-set Sunday!  I'm trying to re-commit myself more fully to Christ. I want to be all in! I truly believe it will change my life if I choose Him over everything else. I heard this song on an Instagram reel recently and a wave of nostalgia rushed over me...and I don't even remember how I know the song! 😂 But it's a jam (if a bit dated and cheesy 😉😆) and I love it! Feel good, poppy sounding music with a message focused on Jesus, it's perfect! 💖 The long awaited rains Have fallen hard upon the thirsty ground And carved their way to where The wild and rushing river can be found And like the rains I have been carried here to where the river flows, yeah My heart is racing and my knees are weak as I walk to the edge I know there is no turning back once my feet have left the ledge And in the rush I hear a voice That's telling me it's time to take the leap of faith So here I go I'm diving in I'm going deep In

Song: The Wind Beneath My Wings Artist: Mat & Savanna Shaw (cover) Father-daughter duo Mat & Savanna, who have been regulars here since 2020, just released a brand-new cover yesterday. I have yet to listen to it and decided to share it as today's song for a couple of reasons. First, the song itself. My sweet mother referenced the lyrics to this song when she spoke at her father's, my grandpa's, funeral. I remember clearly how beautiful the lyrics were and how perfectly they described my grandpa. 🤍 My grandpa's birthday is also in the month of November so he's often on my mind this time of year. Secondly, because today is Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead , where we celebrate and remember fondly our departed loved ones. So since I have this memory connected with grandpa's funeral and it's kind of "his" month and this day we celebrate the ones we have lost, I thought this song was a beautiful choice.  This song is dedicated in loving

HAPPY NOVEMBER ! 🍁🤎🧡🦃 With my "announcement" yesterday in my Halloween post that this would be my last year sharing daily, spooky songs, the same applies to this nine going on TEN YEAR Grateful For Music Challenge 😢💔 It will also go for my Musical Christmas Advent and my entire blog in general. Music Is My Therapy will officially be retiring after TEN LOVELY YEARS of music sharing. It's bittersweet, but it's time. I feel it. I feel it every time I go back and read through my past posts, thinking about all the time and effort I put into them each year, for nothing. No followers, comments, connection. Although I have and did enjoy writing them, it was cathartic and therapeutic for me many times, especially as I processed my grief and life changes. But I need to focus on my "real" life, in the real world and not spend so much time writing words on a screen. But, you never know with me...I feel I've made similar announcements, or hints of them, be

The day we've been waiting for since August is HERE.... IT'S H A L L O W E E N ! !   🎃👻💀🦇🧛🧟🕸🧹✨ I wish I could say I've been having a most SPOOKTACULAR day but...that wouldn't be the truth. I have been very in tune with my costume this year...I've been an ANXIOUS wreck! This is ME 😭 Remember when I was having my little melt-down the other day about being embarrassed because I didn't have plans for tonight and I was anxious my employer would invite me to go trick-or-treating with her and her children and I felt prideful about that? Well, it's worse. She threw out the idea that, if I didn't have plans, I could go sit ALONE , in her house and pass out candy while/or hold her newborn while they go out.... COULD I BE MORE OF A LOSER OR WHAT!?! I don't want to do either of those things but I didn't know what to say in the moment so I was just kinda like "Oh yeah....maybe....if I don't go to this free haunted house that I know of&

Song(s): Bewitched, Elphaba in the Bathroom & Halloween Music Box Artist(s):  Steve Lawrence, Michael Korte (feat. Ciara Renee) & Nightcore Love I have quite a smorgasbord of wickedly, ghastly tunes for your haunting, ghoulish pleasure this evening! 👻🎃 I can't believe Halloween is TOMORROW!! 🎃👻💀😈🦇🧛🧟🕷🕸🧹✨ Bewitched Featured in the cute, witchy chick-flick I watched last weekend (the 2005 movie,  Bewitched ) I had to share this classic song! It sounds like it could be a Frank Sinatra song and brings a very "vintage" Halloween feel to this years heavier, harsher and overall darker vibe...it gives me cozy, nostalgic "Christmas vibes" for some reason, haha. But it's cozy Halloween 😊 For another "witchy" love song, sung by Frank Sinatra, check out this song Witchcraft here .  Bewitched, bewitched You've got me in your spell Bewitched, bewitched You know your craft so well Before I knew what you were doing I looked in your eyes