Melanie Shore – pianist, composer, MD, and podcaster – functions in two worlds. She’s the happiest person in the room and the poster child for trauma and grief. She shares not only how to function with trauma and grief, but how to best support people living in that reality. We also talk about the stress of learning to improvise at a later age, synchronicity, and building a national profile from a small scene.
I learned Jazz piano. I can do ANYTHING.
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Actionable Advice
- I don’t revel a lot in accomplishing “the thing”. I really like learning how to do “the thing”. Instead of looking at things as I suck or I’m awesome I look at it like “okay well there is one way I tried that didn’t work out let me try another way”.
- I used to care so much about sounding good, that it was never enough. We can be our own worst enemy when our expectations for ourselves don’t line up with reality. So I changed it to – oh I’m just taking a solo. It’s my turn. It doesn’t mean anything about if I’m a good person or a bad person. I’m just taking a solo.
- I like to look at the future as something that can be very exciting instead of something that if I don’t plan out I’m doomed.
- Maybe we’re not experts in some things, but we are experts in the struggles that we’re going through. Your experiences are valid. You can always help the person a few steps behind you.