I Effing Love Music

Hi brilliant people!

Do any of you love music like I do? I love various kinds and styles and voices and energies. Music acts as a vessel for me to feels every bit of my expansive human experience (and as you know the ADHD experience is beautifully expansive).

I recently picked up a book called Self-Care for People with ADHD by Sasha Hamdani. One of her suggestions is listening to music and I wholeheartedly agree.

Music allows me to feel it all. Grief, joy, silliness, spirituality, vibey, romance, friendship, connection, love, anger, fear, on and on.

I love the poetry of the words and beyond that I love the way combining sounds and vibrations can create an experience that words can’t touch. My ADHD often makes me feel like words can’t fully describe the intensity of which I feel life. It is quite possible that music makes me feel understood.

Music makes the painfully boring more bearable… sometimes even fun…

I can’t tell you how many times music has been the reason why I brushed my teeth, cleaned my room, gotten myself up and ready for the day, had a great workout, washed those dishes.

Music takes the mundane day to day and makes it a spiritual experience. It can fill a moment will so much more. It is a source of art that creates connection between people faster than any other arts form. Not many things can compare to the collective joy that washes over a group when a song that they all love comes on.

Nothing has healed me, seen me, held me, elated me, broken me, lifted me quite like music has.

Current Dopamine songs:

Daisies by Justin Bieber

The Baton by Katie Gavin

Let Me Be Wrong by Jensen McRae