How To Use Music To Help Heal Childhood Trauma | Piers Cross

How To Use Music To Help Heal Childhood Trauma | Piers Cross

On my podcast this week I am interviewing Wyndham Wallace who is an author and music critic.

In the episode we were talking about music and how powerful it can be for healing childhood trauma.

In today's video I talk about how we store emotion in the music that we listened to at school.

Both the music that we liked and the music we didn't like.

A really fascinating exploration of music therapy to heal childhood trauma.

Take care,

Piers

#musictherapy #music #childhoodtrauma #boardingschool

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[malcraghill]

So true. I was at BS from 79 to 84, and was into Genesis, Marillion and lots of metal (Kiss, Motorhead, Michael Schenker Group, Girlschool, etc). I used to listen to the Friday Night Rock Show on Radio 1 on a little transistor radio under my pillow in the dorm. TOTP on Thursday nights always packed out the TV room. New Romantic music started coming out, and I hated it, but it was all you ever heard in the common room, so me and a few mates founded the I Hate Duran Duran Club! I'm much more open to it all now, and more influenced by the music I got into at 6th form after I had left BS.

[thereverendchislet]

I remember an old acronym for HOPE in recovery was Harbouring Old Tapes Produces Emptiness.

[richardrickford]

I can understand why people don't like the Smiths. I think they are a bit of a marmite group. I do find some of their lyrics though so bizarre that I burst out laughing. One was " I walked round the park eleven times today. And I couldn't even find a pair of jeans to steal" and then on a Morrisey solo album "The world is full of crashing bores. And I fear I am one of them" My favorite bizarre lyric though comes from Belle and Sebastian "I spend most of my time in Marks and Spencer's now. But they don't seem to mind that much" I was at boarding school from 1984 to 1985. We used to play Thriller by Michael Jackson incessantly. I also would play my cassette of "Now that is what I call music volume three". The song "Locomotion" from Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark brings it all back. There was one guy who was always playing Musical Youth (pass the Duchie on the left hand side) and loads of rap music. I heard once the lyric "You know they call it rap. But it seems to me. That in describing it. They left out the C" Fortunately I did not repeat this to my study mate. If I had I would have been walloped. There were also bullies at University who were constantly playing Queen and whenever I hear "its a kind of magic" it all comes back to me (this was the first track on Queens Greatest Hits part two) The idea Piers of listening to all this music while trauma tapping is just brilliant. I trauma tap anyway so I will try it out. I think it would also be really good if you did a talk about the healing power of art. Art therapy is not some peripheral thing to get people in psychiatric hospital to do to pass the time. It can be absolutely central to some people's recovery - even if you are the worst artist in the world (I say this because people often say "But I don't know how to draw") It can also (at the risk of sounding like a commercial) sometimes reach parts of the self that other therapies and forms of medication cannot reach. So that is also at the top of my things to really try out in a big way over things that happened in my very early childhood. I always remember the controversial film director Peter Greenaway saying "In the beginning was the word? No no no! In the beginning was the image!"