EDIT*** - Due to some reasons I won’t publicly disclose, I will be suspending the series indefinitely. Thank you all for reading and keeping up with the series. I appreciate all of your support and that I could resonate with so many of you.
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One of the biggest concerns shared by my students, followers, and fellow artists, is mental wellness as it relates to musicians. Mental health is stigmatized routinely and not considered an imperative subject for most musicians. To show suffering is akin to showing a loss of artistic integrity, something that makes us feel weak or inferior, not tough enough or confident enough to “survive” in the industry. This only makes it worse and more deeply embedded. Being an artist, frankly, is hard. I should know - it’s hardly been an easy journey for me to learn how to embrace my work with confidence and unconditional love. The least I can do is document my futile attempts, laugh about it, and let it be known that we’re all in this shit show together. And we’re gonna be okay. For the moments we can get out of our own way, our lives - artistic lives in particular - can be shimmeringly beautiful, whole, and fulfilling.