3 Favorite Mental Health Songs
Bad for Me
Meghan Trainor has recently released this amazing song, producing incredibly evocative feelings about setting boundaries with family you love who are...bad for you. It's beautifully written and sung, and I really love how she speaks to the dual feelings of - loving someone AND recognizing how unhealthy they are. If you are someone who has a parent or loved one with narcissistic personality disorder, addiction, or other severe mental health disorders - this song might hit home.
What Do You Hear In These Sounds
Dar Williams, one of my all-time favorite musicians has a WHOLE SONG about how great therapy is!!! I love how she shows off the exploration process that therapy is. If you have ever wondered how to articulate the hard-to-describe benefits of a great therapy session, this song does it so sweetly.
No
Meghan Trainor is at it again! This one is not related to mental health in any literal sense - but the whole dang song is about putting up boundaries and sticking to them. So even if the specific situation she sings about isn't quite what you're struggling with... get this "no to the no to the nah nah nah" stuck in your head and let it help you remember that "No is a complete sentence."
My clients and I bring up music, art, TikToks, memes, and games a lot during our sessions. Our feelings, our shared experiences, our relationships - they're reflected in pop culture and it's such a valuable tool to explore how we fit into all of that. It's also a really important tool for parents trying to connect with their kids.
Roya Dedeaux is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a focus on using creative tools like art, writing, and recreation as a way to help teens and their families who don't quite fit the mold.
Roya’s first book, Connect with Courage: practical ways to release fear and find joy in the places your kids take you is the result of her background in Recreation and Leisure Studies and Marriage and Family Therapy and is the base of her Connect with Courage Parenting Course.
She loves running her private practice, creating art prompts for her
two online art groups, and running games and challenges in the
free Recreate Parenting Facebook community! When she's not doing that, she loves to make messes with her three wild & wonderful kids where they live and play hard in Southern California.
Connect With Courage
