Branches

Grief doesn’t wait for an invitation to show up. It just plops itself into your life—regardless of what you had planned and wanted. 

Is there a way to brace for such unwelcome surprises? 

Discover how a mix of realism and daily preparation can help you cope with life’s unexpected losses.  

In Episode 42, A. Jeanine Warden-Jarrett, MD discusses various points of grief--from the illness of her dad to his death a few years later.

Liz and Jeanine share their personal experiences with grief and loss, and address the importance of community when navigating grief, and the role of faith in coping with loss. 

The impact of unresolved grief and trauma on individuals, and the signs that grief has entered a  concerning stage are also conversation topics, along with the idea of finding inner peace along the pathway of grief.

Episode 42: Everyday Preparation for Grief and Loss with A. Jeanine Warden-Jarrett, MD

Broken

Time

What does it mean to celebrate life in the face of profound loss, and how can that act transform not only grief, but those who witness it? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Myra Sack on her new book Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way.

Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio affiliate!  https://www.kmet1490am.com

Myra Sack is the author of Nautilus award-winning memoir, "Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter Finding Our Way," and founder of E-Motion, Inc., a nonprofit organization created to support community, movement and ritual to enhance coping and resilience. Myra's life changed when her older daughter, Havi, died on January 20, 2021 of Tay-Sachs disease. Myra is a certified Compassionate Bereavement Care provider, holds an MBA in Social Impact from Boston University, and graduated with a B.A. cum laude from Dartmouth College. Myra's writing has been featured in the Boston Globe, Kveller, People, Hadassah Magazine, Today and Upworthy. Myra serves on the Board of the Courageous Parents Network and  lives in Boston, MA with her family. https://www.myrasack.com https://www.emotion-mc.org

For more show information visit:
www.MariannePestana.com

Fifty-seven Fridays with Myra Sack

Fed up with NHS Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapies (SCPT) 

Fed up with the Lambeth Mental Health Service (SCPT)

Burn

I wrote this score during an exchange semester in Perth, studying Music Composition at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. For one of our assignments we were given the task to score two scenes from two different movies, one of them being 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'. We also received a director's brief with some rough guidelines, e.g. to incorporate baroque elements that would later form into a leitmotif which could then be used throughout the rest of the film.

'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' is a film about a complicated love relationship between two women in the 18th century. It was directed by Céline Sciamma. Para One and Arthur Simonini wrote the original score for the film. 

For the opening scene I wanted to create a sentimental and grieving theme to show the main protagonist's desperate and unabated queer love for another woman against the backdrop of the rigid and prim conventions during the 18th century which the plot is set in. The first theme is very emotive and relies on celli as the main instruments. The second part of the score however starts in a fast-paced Baroque style recalling the stormy Presto of the Summer in Vivaldi's Four Seasons as a metaphor for the main protagonist's vivid memories of her love amidst turbulent and controversial times.

DM me on Instagram (or here) for any collaboration or if you want to license this track for your project.
IG: julius.jendrezok

Cheers!

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire - ReScore

Dr. Essie Speaks  

Episode 116: Grieving In Silence
Host: Dr. Essie McKoy Ed.D - Best Selling Author | Speaker 

Guest: Dr. Tamala Coleman, Minister | Author | Producer

Produced by Elite Conversations Podcast Media 
https://eliteconversations.com/

Grieving In Silence

trying to get this beat to brakence - this is the start of an EP I am making. 

I made this after my grampy passed, I've been sober for 2 years since and brakence music has been a gift in my life during this time. I am hoping this can somehow reach him and he can find the words I can't to sing to it. 

Artwork relevant - made in rehab

tell god i am mad at him

In 2013, my mom passed away after 24 years of battling #rheumatoidarthritis and #neuropathy.
I wrote this song in a moment when I needed to talk about her but didn’t have the words — so I let the piano speak.
It sat unreleased for 4 years. It was too personal. Too raw.
But today, on her birthday, I’m sharing it with the world.
They say every good song costs you something.
This one cost me one of the greatest people in my life.

🎵 “For Mom” by St. Jules — out now on all platforms.
🖤 For anyone grieving — this one’s for you.

For Mom

[Verse 1]
I painted our walls in fields of emerald light.
Every stroke a promise that we’d never die.
Now the brush sits empty in my trembling hand;
Colors bleed together where I try to stand.

[Pre-Chorus]
Your laughter filled these halls with springtime air.
Now silence blooms in every corner, everywhere.

[Chorus]
My favorite color is green, ‘cause that was always you.
A forest in your eyes, I’m lost inside the truth.
I drown in every shade of what I cannot hold.
My favorite color is green; now it’s all gone cold.

[Verse 2]
Leaves fall like memories along this lonely street.
I trace your footprints in the damp beneath my feet.
Guitar strings hum your name in minor harmonies;
They ring like distant echoes of what could be.

[Pre-Chorus]
Rou, I reach for something only ghosts can give—
A hue, haunts me more than teaching me to live.

[Chorus]
My favorite color is green, ‘cause that was always you.
A forest in your eyes, I’m lost inside the truth.
I drown in every shade of what I cannot hold.
My favorite color is green; now it’s all gone cold.

[Bridge]
But I keep walking, I keep fading,
Through the static of the night.
I hear your voice, but it’s just memory—
Another ghost in flashing light.

[Final Chorus]
My favorite color is green; every leaf reminds me.
They ring like distant echoes of what we could be.
Guitar strings hum your name in minor harmonies.
My favorite color is green—your color. It’s now on me.

———

In “Your Color,” grief takes form in a single hue. It mourns the vibrancy lost with love’s departure and asks how we repaint our world when the palette of the past stains everything we touch.

———

Genre: Griefwave Post-Punk / Alternative Ballad 
Key: B♭ Major
BPM: 115
Time Signature: 4/4

Light

Your Color

Granny Grooves

Life Knocks You Down

I wrote this following the passing of my grandfather.   When I came out and left the religious extremism behind, he shut me out.   I found out he passed away by accident.  I used to still send him cards and he would send me cards.   I tried to reconnect with him but he would never respond to my invites to reconnect.   I tried everything I could.  His passing leaves behind so much hurt and pain.  Please never turn your back on someone because of who they love.   Religions aren't worth it when they destroy your family and demand you hold bigoted hateful views.   If you're part of a religion and your family member is LGBTQ and that religion condemns them, the choice should be a no brainer.  You walk away from that religion because it's clearly lying and seeking to harm your family.  He never did.  I tried to connect so many times.  He refused to and never would.  I wrote this song to express what I'm feeling in the wake of his death that my relatives never told me occurred.   The title You Never Let Me In refers to a picture he always had of Jesus knocking on a door and how he met religion in, but not his own grandson when he needed it most.   When I told him I was engaged to my partner he said, "That's too bad.  I'm sorry to hear that." It was crushing and still hurts deeply.   Don't let that be the legacy you leave like he did.   

Track is performed by Suno AI, but the lyrics are all original by Ian Scheil.

You Never Let Me In

Episode #20 (2021) - The Creative Check In

Bisexual music creator, producer, and disabled patient.  Music is so therapeutic and I find it beneficial to be able to use AI to help me enjoy writing lyrics to have them performed since I can't sing for beans.   But I do also have some tracks here that I fully created and produced without any AI as well, such as Homosexual Tendencies which throws the extremist BS terminology back in the face of religious zealots and extremists who put me through hell as a bisexual kid.   I hope you enjoy these.  Humor is one of my favorite ways to help with bad days and sometimes I get the opportunity during a good moment to make something out of it and engage with the parts of me that I'm unable to in other moments due to the disabilities I deal with.  I clearly label which tracks utilize AI and which do not in their descriptions for total transparency.  All lyrics are 100% authentic and my own copyrighted material.

Rebekah Potter and Kelly Ward of @RightSideLeftTurn talk relationships and midlife U-Turns on BackYard Blindfolds. Started in 2021 (see older archives uploaded here) and returning in 2025 to discuss what was tackled over the years in between. Additionally,  we discuss how we bring meaning to life.

Artist / Musician
Genre-Defying Musical Collage
Ambient, Experimental & World Beat
(Mostly) Instrumentals

Julius Jendrezok is a German filmmaker and composer. Having worked in the film industry for several years, he started to combine his work in the movies with his skills as a pianist as well as his composition aspirations by writing the music for several short films. Today his repertoire goes beyond film scores and includes both classical and contemporary works. His recent studies at the Western Australian Acaddemy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in Perth marked another important step in his career path.

just airing some things out and seeing how it goes

In a single moment your life can change!  “Moments with Marianne” is a transformative hour that covers an endless array of topics with the ‘best of the best.’ Her guest are leaders in their fields, ranging from inspirational authors, top industry leaders, business and spiritual entrepreneurs.  Each guest is gifted, and a true visionary!  A recognized leader in her own work, and while teaching others to develop, refocus, and grow; Marianne will bring the best guest, and sometimes a special surprise.  Don’t miss this – you never know just which ‘moment’ will change your life forever.

Multidimensional being, trapped in a physical realm experience.

I'm a boundary-pushing artist whose work fuses raw poetry, immersive soundscapes, and striking visual artistry into a singular creative vision. I independently crafts every facet of my art—vocals, composition, production, lyricism, and artwork—transforming deep personal introspection into electrifying sonic narratives. My music channels the raw energy of alternative/progressive rock, the haunting ambience of post-punk, and the ethereal depth of indie, with just enough metal edge to ignite catharsis.

Behind the artistry lies a journey marked by profound resilience. Three years ago, an unfortunate accident not only left me with partial vocal cord paralysis—making every performance a testament to endurance—but also robbed him of the ability to play the piano, my favorite creative outlet, forever. Refusing to be subdued by these setbacks, I reinvented my approach: I embraced digital techniques to rediscover my passion for music and, similarly, taught myself digital art. My Instagram is now a vibrant gallery of my new creative endeavors, where drawing and digital expression take center stage.

I have a hypothesis regarding music, which is: matter in our universe is perpetually in motion; nothing remains completely still. It resembles an everlasting dance, influenced by the smallest forms of existence that define matter at a quantum level. Furthermore, the very fabric of space-time is composed of waves. Therefore, I can only speculate that our universe communicates with us through sound and music.


If math is the language of the universe, then music must be its poetry.

This is just small space to speak about the biggest taboo subject in life: death. :-) 
Something we ALL will experience and we all will experience loss. But we silence death to death. Soundcliud is limited, I'm working on another platform to dedicate to this taboo subject we all face.
My # 1 subject is to STOP making bereaved people feel guilty when people without crisis want to have a good time but feel the bereaved spoil their party! Stop putting the burden and blame on bereaved, on sick, on vulnerable people so you can feel selfish. I cover a lot of anger, and it's time for bereaved people to keep speaking out. Louder.

Planet Noun is a podcast about the everyday people, places, things and ideas that teach us, prompt us to make a difference and do more with what life presents.
Hosted by DMV-area radio journalist/producer Liz Anderson. 

To be clear, DMV means the D.C., Maryland, Virginia area…not the local department of motor vehicles *smile*.

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Because our clients are too busy running their business, we are the ones that supports all of their needs in the area of podcasting. All of our Business 

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New tracks tagged #Grieving