Finding the REAL you

Singing a New Song: 
Finding yourself, healing from abuse and learning to dream again.

That's what this blog; Facebook page is all about; becoming the best YOU!!!! No matter what has happened TO you or within you. YOU deserve to heal, grow and enjoy your life.


Finding the REAL you...what motivates you???

Music and healing from abuse

♫ Even coffee sings to me. ♫


The latte hums a happy tune 

as it bears the signature of its muse. 

It might have started as I sang along with Petula Clark's "Downtown" as the chair became my stage and a spoon became my microphone. Or it might have been in my first grade music class where I "belted out" Peter, Paul and Mary's "If I had a hammer". Talk about emoting!!! Overall, my memories of music reminds me that MUSIC is a vehicle of expressing my life and individuality.  

I believe that I have always had this "Inner World" of music. I hear and try to create what I feel, hear and see in my mind and "heart". This has always been a "safe place" in my life and only trusted "other musicians" have been welcome to enter. I could "rest" within the safe walls of "My World of Music". 

My World of Music; listening to music, singing, playing music and writing songs has always provided me a mood changing, mind altering and spirit lifting "place of refuge". In my world, I can "be whoever I want to be" and retreat from the abuse, pain, stress and cares that others have used to burden, oppress and depress me for their own purposes. I have refused to allow most people "inside". There have been only a very few chosen, respected and truly valued musicians; whom I have had the joy of collaborating within songwriting. 

Singing in choirs have served to allow my spirit the wings to exercise within music; to keep my voice "up" and my sight reading and musicianship sharp. We truly all need to know what is valuable in our lives; what makes our lives worth living and allow us a "place of refuge"* where we can "BE ourselves". It is a consistent and ever present "strength" in ways; a fortress that NO ONE can enter without my permission. In many ways, I have set boundaries that I will allow no one to violate and this has helped me understand the need of personal boundaries in healing from abuse. There are many hymns that have the words "my refuge and my strength". I see how "My World of Music" have always been these for me. 


* And this is where the FB page and blog title of "Singing a New Song" originated; it has married my healing journey of "finding myself, healing from abuse and learning to dream again" with the actual world of MUSIC; my love and muse. 
We all deserve to be "Singing a New Song". 

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Thank you for the use of your wonderful pics. 

Running away...

Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica...photographer unknown. 

Sometimes we think that if we could 

"JUST GET AWAY" 

for a while 

that things would be either so much better when we returned than when we left 

OR 

we would have been refreshed enough to face whatever we wanted to run away from...

Simple Joys 

(from the Musical "Pippin")

Stephen Schwartz

Well, I'll sing you a story of a sorrowful lad

Had everything he wanted, didn't want what he had

He had wealth and pelf and fame and name and all of that noise

But he didn't have none of those simple joys. 

His life seemed purposeless and flat

Aren't you glad you don't feel like that?

So he ran from all the deeds he'd done,

he ran from things he'd just begun

He ran from himself, which was mighty far to run

Out into the country where he'd played as a boy

'Cause he knew he had to find him some simple joy

He wanted someplace warm and green

We all could use a change of scene

Like us all, the young man in this story thought that he could RUN AWAY from his problems, but hopefully, he learned, as we have, that we cannot run away from ourselves. We try! But we will never succeed in "leaving ourselves behind". We will take ourselves with us everywhere we go...so the moral of this story is: "Find yourself, heal from abuse and learn to dream again"...Learn to LIKE yourself, you will be spending the most time of your life with YOU.