Music for Grief

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 grief and sadness, looking specifically at music therapy treatment programs for clients challenged with addiction, interviewing special guest Kathleen Murphy, PhD, LPC, LCAT, MT-BC, a board-certified music therapist and Assistant Professor of Music Therapy at University of Evansville in Indiana.

Today's guest's music choices are explored to understand how she uses music to stay positively engaged in the game of life, discussing how she stays balanced when experiencing sad situations. 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 to adjust listening habits to significantly reduce anxiety in prescriptive formulas choosing music from all styles in the downloadable 2-hour accredited course Music Medicine Boot Camp.