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Reflection

December 13, 2017 by Kelly Boylan

Spotify recently compile my most listened to tracks for 2017, and as I began to listen to it, I felt these waves of emotions and memories flood over me. Each song took me back to a specific feeling or moment. The summer of 2016 through the fall of 2017 was the most trying season of my life. I went through a lot of change in that year or so. I left the family I was a nanny to for almost five years. I lost important relationships in my life. I felt lost in my career goals and lack of a stable job. I was overwhelmed by these experiences, both mentally and emotionally. It took up a lot of space in my head and my heart. 

Music has always been a form of therapy for me. My dad is a musician, and my mom loves music just as much. Because of that, it was always on in the house. The first two notes of The Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why" hit me just as beautifully as the first few notes of John Mayer's "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room." I have playlists that are specific for moods. One for when I need to feel deeply and feel hard; one for when I need to feel angry and vindicated; one for when I want to feel uplifted and encouraged.

Listening to music is sacred. It reminds us that we are not alone. Life experiences can often leave us feeling so alone - alone in our experience, alone in our emotions, alone in our sense of betrayal and hurt. But music reminds us that someone else has been in a similar experience. Someone else has felt a sense of what you feel. Your experience is unique and valid to you. It is yours and yours alone. But we are not alone in the human experiences of love, joy, pain, heartbreak, fear, anxiety, insufficiency...We are more alike than we are unalike. And music reminds me of that. How else would artists connect to so many people? How else could that one note, or that one lyric totally bring you to your knees? 

The Spotify list is pretty long. But here are twenty songs I'd like to share with you:

  1. Find You - Charlotte Day
  2. Confidently Lost - Sabrina Claudio
  3. Lose My Mind - Janine
  4. Refuse - Kevin Garrett
  5. 5,000,000,000 Years - Whitaker
  6. Beautiful Girl - Sara Bareilles
  7. It'll Rain Today - Michelle Willis
  8. Death & Taxes - Daniel Caesar 
  9. Press Harder - GemStones
  10. In the Blood - John Mayer
  11. Woman - Rosie Lowe
  12. Misery Loves Company, Too - Natalie Royal
  13. Untitled (How Does It Feel) - D'Angelo
  14. Heavy - Birdtalker
  15. River - Bishop Briggs
  16. Hear Me - Tedeschi Trucks Band
  17. Build it Better - Aron Wright
  18. Cool Girl - Tove Lo
  19. Cruel Intentions - JMSN
  20. I'm Better (feat. Lamb) - Missy Elliot

Enjoy.

xxo

December 13, 2017 /Kelly Boylan
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