Erin Hade Lunde, MT-BC, music therapist in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area
Looks like I’m going to get to use this as a travel blog as well as a “normal” blog; my boyfriend and I are going to Europe in January! I’m excited.I’ve decided I take everything too seriously and that I don’t laugh enough. Even as my boyfriend was telling me about the details of this [...]
Thu, December 23 2010 » Reflections » 1 Comment
I am so excited to finish my internship and move into working professionally as well as putting my life together.I am pretty terrible at closure, so these next three weeks will be a challenge for me.I have lists of things I want and feel I need to do, come January. But I need to be [...]
Sun, December 19 2010 » Reflections » No Comments
Four weeks until the end of my internship. Four weeks until the end of my six months at the hospital. I can hardly wait, to be honest. I look forward to income again. Even if I don’t get a music therapy position right away, I will hopefully be able to work more often at the [...]
Tue, December 14 2010 » Reflections » No Comments
I have been considering the definition of complicated grief. A question that was posed to me was, “What do you think is harder? Losing someone slowly, or suddenly?”This week and last I worked with teens in two school systems who have suffered loss of someone close to them, both suddenly and in slow process. I’ve [...]
Fri, December 10 2010 » Reflections » No Comments
I went to a yoga class this evening that was part of my one free week of unlimited classes. I’m still sore from the first class on Friday, and tonight I felt pretty limited. What was odd tonight, for me, was that I wasn’t entirely interested in how the other people in the class were, [...]
Tue, December 7 2010 » Reflections » No Comments
In internship, I am realizing the painful pleasure of constructing my unique style of providing music therapy services to the variety of clients and patients I see. I am supervised by three distinctly different professionals, and I work with two co-interns who, too, have different strengths and limitations than me. The therapy I provide is [...]
Sun, December 5 2010 » Reflections » 1 Comment
One truth of mine that continuously fascinates me is that when I feel I would like to be alone and isolate myself from people, I find that I am entirely wrong. Some days I’ll go to work and look forward at the day with anxiety as I consider the number of people I’ll see who [...]
Sat, December 4 2010 » Reflections » 1 Comment
I am having trouble of late settling into any given task or activity. The end of the year is nearing, the end of my internship is close, and I feel that too few things are in place that I am constantly considering the vast number of items yet to be accomplished; I can hardly sit [...]
Wed, December 1 2010 » Reflections » No Comments
