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    Leanne Brookes

    Leanne Brookes

    Leanne Brookes is a writer and lyricist with an educational background in music and fashion. She is currently studying counselling and has a personal journey blog dedicated to achieving positive mental wellbeing, theitchinside.com. All music and written work can be found on leannejaybrookes.com and you can follow her at @LJBWrites

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    Writing Music to Overcome Depression
    04Feb

    Writing Music to Overcome Depression
    Leanne Brookes
    creativity, depression, music, wellbeing
    Mind
    One afternoon I had a moment of clarity and wrote all of the words, in one prolific sitting, to a song for my Dad. He moved to America when I was four and I dragged a heavy anchor of anger and disappointment behind me most of my life as a result. I describe in the piano ballad how I was confused and missed him as a child, felt that he didn't know me as a teenager, as an adult I needed him and finally in the present day, I forgave him. Along with a very long letter, I sent this song, which I called ’The Gift’, to my Dad in the mail. It was the closure that I...
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