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This week on Music Is My Mantra, we close out Mental Health Awareness Month with one of the most personal episodes I’ve ever shared.

Join me for a solo reflection on my song Galaxies Collide, a track written at a time when I mistook chaos for chemistry and believed that intensity equaled intimacy.

In this heartfelt journey, I open up about the patterns I didn’t yet recognize, the grief I hadn’t yet processed, and the codependent behaviors that shaped my earliest relationships. This is not a lecture on mental health—it’s a journal entry, a testimony, a musical milestone on my healing path.

Together, we explore what happens when you grow up with alcoholism, how it alters your sense of love, and what it means to return to yourself as your safest place.

This episode is a reflection on reclaiming peace, rewriting your patterns, and realizing that true love—real, grounded, nourishing love—begins within.

Episode Highlights:

• The moment I realized Galaxies Collide was about codependency
• Growing up with an alcoholic parent—and the emotional confusion it caused
• Why we often confuse anxiety with attraction
• How songwriting became a mirror for my inner healing
• Lessons in emotional safety, boundaries, and rewriting love

Takeaways:

• What feels like chemistry might be your nervous system reacting to past pain
• Codependency isn’t love—it’s fear disguised as devotion
• You can reparent yourself through awareness, honesty, and self-compassion
• Songs hold our stories—and can help us transform them
• True connection starts with how gently you hold your own heart