I graduated in 2007 with a BA in religious studies, where I completed a four month internship in the spiritual care department of Vista Care Hospice in Phoenix. I am currently finishing up coursework at ASU for music therapy, and in July I will begin an awarded 6 month internship at Hospice Inc, in Poughkeepsie, NY. After this I will be eligible for board certification by the American Music Therapy Association. My goal is to eventually model the work of Mother Teresa who dedicated her life to giving the unlovable and unwanted people in the world a blessed death. As a trained music therapist with hospice/palliative care, I will be able to use interactive music to help achieve this goal of a blessed death: remaining aware, embracing death as a part of life, feeling meaningful in the world by leaving something behind, feeling loved and wanted, and letting go. Music has this safety net that fosters HOPE in what is unseen. So overall, I will see myself as a a type of musical midwife, taking those who are dying and leading them on their life journey as far as I can go before God takes their hand from me. This is why I will call my practice "Journey's End Music." I know this sounds morbid, but music is eternal. I believe people come into the world surrounded by harmonium and depart the same way. I heard of a man who died and came back after 90 minutes, and the thing he remembers most, the thing he hears everynight before he falls asleep, is the MUSIC. Of course that is what Heaven is. So I choose to make a life of trying to steal as much music from the Heavenly realms as the doors are opened by angels during a person's final days.
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Performance from One Voice, Feed My Starving Children
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