Come January

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... Read More

Cycles

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... Read More

How to help

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... Read More

Style

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... Read More

Acknowledgement

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... Read More

Quantity vs. quality

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 constantl... Read More

Connect

I was surprised by how much I liked the movie “127 Hours” that we saw tonight, and also by how much I enjoyed meeting two people who are interning at another site here in the cities. The m... Read More

Control in flexibility

I had a surprisingly uplifting session with a patient and her mother today. Unfortunately, I was nervous about the session for the majority of the day. Another lesson learned: be flexible, but take co... Read More