Ever since I can remember, music has been the most effective, reliable medicine I could reach for. It didn’t matter whether it was pouring out of my toy record player or the crappy cassette recorder I carried everywhere as a kid, the fancy stereo I had in my twenties, or my currently dying green mini-iPod. The medicine of music has been an immediate and often universal recognition of hurts and loves and truths that sometimes get lost in the fog of day-to-day living. I find that it meets me where I am in the moment, accepts me as I am, and brings the truth up and out of me.
So last year I introduced Music Medicine Saturdays, where I share some tunes with you that have carried me in the dark, and lifted me out into the light.
So last year I introduced Music Medicine Saturdays, where I share some tunes with you that have carried me in the dark, and lifted me out into the light.
Oh, the journey of Self-Love. It has had the same ups and downs of any other relationship I’ve ever known.Yet the stakes are much higher. Who, after all, is guaranteed to be with me all the moments of my life? I’d better get used to that fact. It is a process.
(Be on the lookout for, Crazy Sexy Self-Love Links, coming soon! for more juicy Self-Lovin’ I found in the blogosphere.)
Tori Amos -- Winter
This song is less about self-love than about someone outside ourselves offering unconditional love and the wish that we might one day see ourselves as they see us. My best friend has long been the one person who has completely seen me and loved me no matter what.
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
(Be on the lookout for, Crazy Sexy Self-Love Links, coming soon! for more juicy Self-Lovin’ I found in the blogosphere.)
Tori Amos -- Winter
This song is less about self-love than about someone outside ourselves offering unconditional love and the wish that we might one day see ourselves as they see us. My best friend has long been the one person who has completely seen me and loved me no matter what.
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
Ani DiFranco -- Present/Infant
There comes a time when you recognize that you’re spending too much time being self-critical and therefore you’ve got a problem. And you resolve to change that!
There’s nothing wrong with your face!
There comes a time when you recognize that you’re spending too much time being self-critical and therefore you’ve got a problem. And you resolve to change that!
There’s nothing wrong with your face!
Christina Aguilera -- Beautiful
Cheesy though it may seem, I adore this song and its message, and it seemed an obvious choice for the theme of Self-Love.
I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can’t bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can’t bring me down
Cheesy though it may seem, I adore this song and its message, and it seemed an obvious choice for the theme of Self-Love.
I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can’t bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can’t bring me down
Natasha Bedingfield -- Pocketful of Sunshine
This song was going to be one of my anthems for 2009, and if you heard it as many times as I did in 2008, you may be sick of it. But it’s such an upbeat message, about joy and happiness and love that is all from within — perfect and total sovereignty within our own being.
This song was going to be one of my anthems for 2009, and if you heard it as many times as I did in 2008, you may be sick of it. But it’s such an upbeat message, about joy and happiness and love that is all from within — perfect and total sovereignty within our own being.
Crazy Sexy Self-Love? We’ll get there.
