I will never forget the best advice I was given when I thought I was going out of my mind with sadness and hurt: “Play from your wounded place”. It was such a simple gateway to an alchemy that transformed many moments for me. Moments when I felt my mental health was fragile and under strain. I’ve never felt the need to share this except on a one-to-one level with friends in a smilier boat, but as we are going through an evolutionary and revolutionary time in so many ways, these things are best aired openly. So I’ll speak it gently from this page: “Play from your wounded place”. That is literally how to dispel the blues.

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