Music is a gift. Open it daily.
Music on the Inside
We offer a variety of songwriting programs to incarcerated individuals, as well as formerly incarcerated individuals. Songwriting is a tool that those experiencing incarceration can leverage to help express emotions long kept buried deep within their soul. We have seen the active use of songwriting be the means to facilitate relationship reconciliation between fathers and their children, forgiveness to be asked for and received, and also become a means to process death - as only an incarcerated individual experiences.
Music in Medicine
Music has physical positive benefits to the human body. Studies have proven that music can help alleviate pain, calm an anxious mind, lower blood pressure, and have an overall positive impact on health. Beyond active listening to music, songwriting offers those dealing with long-term illness or terminal illness a way to process the diagnosis and express emotions. It also provides the canvas to say what needs to be said or could not previously be said. Songwriting is also a powerful therapeutic tool for families who are walking alongside their loved one as they battle their illness.
Music in Grief
Music has the power to help people processing loss. Whether it is things not said, or things people now want to say, songwriting can help an individual express feelings experienced as they navigate the grief journey and process their loss.
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Music has power.
It has power on emotions, as well as a physiological power on the human body.
Music has power to unlock the unspoken and give a voice to the unheard.
Music has power to combat physical pain, as well as emotional pain, in the human body.
Music has the power to mend fences and create the soundtrack of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Music has power to unify.
Music has power to remind us of our past while creating hope for our future.
Music has power to help us grieve and process loss.
Music is a powerful gift and we must open it daily.
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Second Verses helps those we engage to leverage the power of music to support their wellbeing. We help participants express things that need to be said; tell their story; find the outlet greatly needed for emotional support. We help those at the intersection of the past and present create a second verse for the future.
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Receiving a prognosis that will greatly alter one’s life, or even lead to the end of it, can be difficult to process. Songwriting and the power of music can be an emotional outlet to put feelings into words, say things to family members that have long needed to be said, or simply provide a creative outlet to be a much needed distraction from all that comes from dealing with a serious illness.
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Most of us will never experience life as an incarcerated individual. The outside world is shut off. Traditional support systems are mostly non-existant, leaving individuals to process all of the emotions stemming from life events on the outside on their own. This includes birth of family members, death of family members and everything in between. Songwriting provides an outlet for processing emotions in a healthy manner.
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Dealing with loss creates a grief journey to navigate that can often leave someone drifting in grief’s waters without a figurative paddle. Songwriting can help someone experiencing grief face the loss and process the loss of losing their loved one. Loss creates an emotional volcano and songwriting is the creative outlet for releasing the emotional eruption needed to begin to process the loss and adjust to life’s new normal, your second verse.
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Your support of Second Verses helps us take the music out into the communities we serve. From weekly songwriting sessions to all-day songwriting events, our mission is to equip the communities we serve to be able to write their song and experience the power of music.
