The Art of Identity and Understanding and Our LGBTQAI2S+ Family

We are joined by Gray Baldwin, MA, MT-BC as we discuss the importance of identity in our society. Gray explains the definitions of LGBTQAI2+ and we have a heart-to-heart talk about healing. If you are going through stuff, this episode is for you to know you are loved and that you are not alone.

We are cosmic beings, we are infinite, complex, and simple at the same time, we have infinite possibilities within us, we are the universe kind of beings. We are of the light. We are divine. There's no way you can pinpoint a living being into one thing. We are complex and ever-evolving.

And at the same time, I wonder just how important is identity? For me, I feel it's very important to identify my culture, who I am, my skin color, everything, and embrace that and embrace the beauty of that. I have to do that because I feel so discriminated against, that I have to fully embody what I identify with. In another world, in another kind of situation, I would say, why should I? I'm a human being. But at the same, the way I feel is “No, I'm a human being who is of this culture who is of this background.”And it's really important to stick up for where I come from and for who I am and to fully embody that.

Resources:

www.mainstreetmusictherapy.com

[email protected]

https://www.thetrevorproject.org

https://pflag.org

https://gsanetwork.org

https://www.glsen.org

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org

To find a therapist

https://www.inclusivetherapists.com

Tedtalk about intersex https://www.ted.com/talks/emily_quinn_what_i_ve_learned_from_having_balls Two spirit explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4lBibGzUnE The composer I spoke of last week was Arnold Schoenberg. Not Bartok. www.musictherapy.org https://www.cbmt.org These are two music therapy orgs in the USA https://wfmt.info This is the world federation of music therapy, an International org.

Gray Baldwin, MA, MT-BC
They/them/theirs
Music Therapist
Main Street Music Therapy
Wellness Through Creativity
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Transcript

[00:00:00] Fawn: Welcome back everybody.

[00:00:01] Matt: Hello!

[00:00:02] Fawn: I've been, I've been looking into more of what we started talking about. Has it been a couple years now? Since we spoke with Michael, we did an episode called breaking the sound barrier. Do you remember Matt?

[00:00:14] Matt: I do remember.

[00:00:15] Fawn: Okay. And that's actually, that's one of, everybody's favorite shows.

It has one of the highest ratings when we got into sound and the whole engineering of it and how it all works. So ever since then, I've been trying to get back into reading whatever I can find on how sound connects us and how sound affects us. So I was getting into the whole healing mechanism of it. Not only just for music therapy, but like music or music as entertainment but how we connect emotionally with each other through sound, how we become in sync with each other through sound. And for me, you know, I'm not an expert musician at all. I love music. Matt is a music snob or a heavy metal snob,

[00:01:12] Matt: u...