Music for Unrelenting Stress

Welcome to Music 4 Life® Radio where we power your potential and build mental fitness with music to support your life. Licensed music therapist Judith Pinkerton takes you on a journey during May's national Mental Health Awareness month, exploring music's capability of mitigating anxiety, anger, depression and grief, interviewing board certified music therapists across the country. Today she tackles how to deal with unrelenting stress which may erode mental fitness, looking specifically at the shortage of music therapists and how therapeutic musicians may provide a collaborative solution, with special guest Judy Simpson, board-certified music therapist and Director of Government Relations for the American Music Therapy Association.

Today's guest's music choices are explored to understand how she uses music to stay positively engaged in the game of life. Find our guest's music and Judith's commentary at Music4LifeBLOG. 

Learn how your personal music listening habits may reduce stress or build stress in Judith's TEDxTalk "Music Powers Potential: Building Mental Fitness."  Discover what your music says about your health and how you can build mental fitness applying music as medicine to deal with more stress in the downloadable 2-hour accredited course Music Medicine Boot Camp.