Empowerment music thread.
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Empowerment music thread.
So there's feeling the pain... which is a great start to assess where you are...
There's lightening up, to break up the physical and mental loop of being in pain/fear/hurt/worry. ... or to keep a great, positive momentum going!
And there's empowerment.... letting the core beliefs be EMPOWERED to let your true voice, your true knowing, your true self be nourished.
When I first saw this one, I was in a much different mental/physical/emotional state than I am today. Still seriously stinkin' LOVE it.
Click for: Katy Perry, Roar!
There's lightening up, to break up the physical and mental loop of being in pain/fear/hurt/worry. ... or to keep a great, positive momentum going!
And there's empowerment.... letting the core beliefs be EMPOWERED to let your true voice, your true knowing, your true self be nourished.
When I first saw this one, I was in a much different mental/physical/emotional state than I am today. Still seriously stinkin' LOVE it.
Click for: Katy Perry, Roar!
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Old belief: that I'm not musical and can't sing. This song brought me to writing down the lyicd several times, in diiferent ways - phone memo pad, in pen in cursive, in pencil in small letters... and repeating, repeating, repeating, reading, saying, singing sections of it, in frustration and in fun... until I found my voice with it.
Two versions of the same song here:
Click for: Sabrina Carpenter, Thumbs
Click for: Acoustic version
Greatly, greatly helped me find my backbone with family and work issues.
Two versions of the same song here:
Click for: Sabrina Carpenter, Thumbs
Click for: Acoustic version
Greatly, greatly helped me find my backbone with family and work issues.
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Well, the day I filed, as I drove away from the courthouse, I turned on the radio. THIS came on:
Roger, Pete and Keith in their glory days! (John Entwistle is there too bu the others do steal the show from him...)
Roger, Pete and Keith in their glory days! (John Entwistle is there too bu the others do steal the show from him...)
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Praying by Kesha which sounds like an odd choice. This song pays homage to what we have been through but is also quite empowering.
Worth a listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLR3Gqz5PEs
Worth a listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLR3Gqz5PEs
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I personally like anything by Nine Inch Nails because when I listen to it I get reminded of the horrible and awful way addiction was. For some reason I have this fear of going back out, my sponsor says it's a healthy fear. Trent Reznor is in recovery and so many of his lyrics hit me in a good way. I just can't listen to Katy Perry or Kesha for that matter. I think I am a little darker plus I'm stuck in 90s grunge.
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A wake up call.... Hillary Duff, Wake Up
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One from Pam Tillis
I really liked this one from Pam Tillis--certainly got a chuckle and a rueful shake of the head from me!!
Lyrics here:
Well, I said he had a lot of potential,
He was only misunderstood.
You know, he really didn't mean to treat me so bad,
He wanted to be good.
And I swore one day I would tame him,
Even though he loves to run hog wild.
Just call me Cleopatra, everybody,
Cause I'm the Queen of Denial.
Well I knew he didn't have any money,
That's why he couldn't buy me a ring.
Oh, and just because he bought himself a brand new pickup truck,
Really didn't prove anything.
And he never had to say he loved me,
I could see it everytime he smiled.
Just call me Cleopatra, everybody,
Cause I'm the Queen of Denial.
Oh Queen of Denial
Buyin' all his alibis.
Queen of Denial,
Just floating down a river of lies.
Now I'm not gonna jump to conclusions,
Or throw away this perfect romance,
Even though I saw him dancing last night
With a girl in leopard skin pants.
Oh he's probably stuck in traffic,
And he'll be here in a little while.
Just call me Cleopatra, everybody,
Cause I'm the Queen of Denial.
Queen of Denial,
Buying all his alibis,
Queen of Denial,
Just floating down a river of lies.
Lyrics here:
Well, I said he had a lot of potential,
He was only misunderstood.
You know, he really didn't mean to treat me so bad,
He wanted to be good.
And I swore one day I would tame him,
Even though he loves to run hog wild.
Just call me Cleopatra, everybody,
Cause I'm the Queen of Denial.
Well I knew he didn't have any money,
That's why he couldn't buy me a ring.
Oh, and just because he bought himself a brand new pickup truck,
Really didn't prove anything.
And he never had to say he loved me,
I could see it everytime he smiled.
Just call me Cleopatra, everybody,
Cause I'm the Queen of Denial.
Oh Queen of Denial
Buyin' all his alibis.
Queen of Denial,
Just floating down a river of lies.
Now I'm not gonna jump to conclusions,
Or throw away this perfect romance,
Even though I saw him dancing last night
With a girl in leopard skin pants.
Oh he's probably stuck in traffic,
And he'll be here in a little while.
Just call me Cleopatra, everybody,
Cause I'm the Queen of Denial.
Queen of Denial,
Buying all his alibis,
Queen of Denial,
Just floating down a river of lies.
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And another from Pam Tillis
After I stumbled across and liked "Cleopatra", I looked for more by Pam Tillis. This one feels true to me:
Lyrics here:
Mary was married with children,
had the perfect suburban life,
'til her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam
and confessed all his sins one night.
Said he'd fallen in love with a barmaid,
said she made him feel reckless and young.
And when he got through, what else could she do?
She just let that pony run.
'Cause you do what you gotta do,
and you know what you know.
You hang on till you can't hang on,
then you learn to let go.
You get what you want sometimes,
but when it's all said and done,
you do what you gotta do
then you let that pony run.
Now Mary moved to West Virginia,
after the shock wore off.
She got a divorce and a chestnut horse
and a barn with an old hayloft.
Sometimes she rides down by the river,
said it makes her feel reckless and young.
She just closes her eyes, and she holds on tight,
and she lets that pony run.
'Cause you do what you gotta do,
and you know what you know.
You hang on till you can't hang on,
then you learn to let go.
You get what you want sometimes,
but when it's all said and done,
you do what you gotta do
then you let that pony run.
Lyrics here:
Mary was married with children,
had the perfect suburban life,
'til her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam
and confessed all his sins one night.
Said he'd fallen in love with a barmaid,
said she made him feel reckless and young.
And when he got through, what else could she do?
She just let that pony run.
'Cause you do what you gotta do,
and you know what you know.
You hang on till you can't hang on,
then you learn to let go.
You get what you want sometimes,
but when it's all said and done,
you do what you gotta do
then you let that pony run.
Now Mary moved to West Virginia,
after the shock wore off.
She got a divorce and a chestnut horse
and a barn with an old hayloft.
Sometimes she rides down by the river,
said it makes her feel reckless and young.
She just closes her eyes, and she holds on tight,
and she lets that pony run.
'Cause you do what you gotta do,
and you know what you know.
You hang on till you can't hang on,
then you learn to let go.
You get what you want sometimes,
but when it's all said and done,
you do what you gotta do
then you let that pony run.
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