I accidentally stopped listening to music for 2 years, so this article was intriguing.

I am a musician. Less so now in my older age. I also worked in a record store and wrote for a music magazine. Now my daughter is a musician and I have become her sort of manager.

I was having a lot of mental health problems in my late 20s, and I think I naturally avoided the things that hurt me. It was like recorded music caused emotional pain. It was so weird to me.

Then one day my baby, who was not speaking yet, started singing in the car. That’s when I started finding my way back to music.

I guess I just wanted to share my story. Music is important to me, but there was a time I had to just stop, let my other thoughts fill that void so I could do some sort of healing that my mind and body seemed to need.