Finding connection in a community choir
When we fall on tough times, the weight of life’s challenges can make it difficult for us to connect with others. It can feel like we are trapped and isolated and it can be difficult to reach out for fear of being judged, even when we find ourselves ready to make those connections. But it is precisely in such moments when finding connection with people is so important.
In this episode host Nadia talks with Tegan and Shelly from the Finding Your Voice Choir, a community choir of women with lived experience of family and domestic violence. Together they share how the choir supports and empowers its members and helps them to form lifelong connections.
Content warning: This podcast discusses family and domestic violence. If listening to this podcast brings up any difficult feelings for you, please seek help from your mental health professional or one of these crisis or support services.
In this episode, you will hear:
- Shelly and Tegan share the story of Finding Your Voice choir and how they came to join the choir [01:26]
- Shelly and Tegan share the positive impact joining the choir has had on their own lives, as well as other members of the choir [05:12]
- Shelly and Tegan share how the choir members empower each other and work together to make the choir their own [11:09]
- Shelly shares some advice to our listens who want to start their own community choir [13:51]
- Tegan and Shelly share advice to anyone listening who may be going through difficult times and want to try something new [16:08]
Further information and resources:
Light of a woman – as sung by members of Finding Your Voice Choir
Feeling connection and belonging outside our families
How to find connection and belonging in tough times podcast episode
The Butterfly Garden: How a community built a garden and found connection podcast episode
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