Why write with me?

My method and style is to teach students how to dig deep into their inner selves to discover/uncover their own unique voice, and then effectively use this voice to compose original songs. Songwriters often have to push through firewalls of fear, confusion and self-doubt to effectively make sense of, and then articulate their truths in their songs, but the beauty of this challenging work is the discovery that the deeply personal is universal. Digging deep into our heart of hearts, we discover the whole world there.

Once we understand this and become willing to be vulnerable in our writing, our work can connect us to ourselves, to others, and to the world in ways we never could have imagined. These new connections inevitably bring us joy. We are returned to our own hearts through the sharing of our humanity with others. We go from feeling narrated, into narrating; from being the story, to becoming the storyteller. We become a witness, take a step back and observe, and experience our own story in powerful new ways when we write it and sing it. The space created in this act offers an opportunity to discover, name, and abandon self-defeating patterns. The uncovering and revealing of oneself in our human brokenness is the primary source of transformative beauty, the creation of art.