2025 Unplug & Elevate Playlist: Unplug Some songs expand our capacity for love and kindness. Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis is mine. Seventeen months after the song was released, my friends and I experienced a tragedy that forced us into grief long before we were ready. One of our dear friends and her entire family were killed by a drunk driver while on their Fourth of July road trip. I still remember the moment my neighbor-friend told me what happened—I honestly thought s

When Meg, Eileen, and I first started noodling around with the idea of a summer play list, back in the spring of 2024, I thought this would be the easiest project ever. I love music and I enjoy writing, how much fun would it be to put the two together, with some of my favorite people. Turns out, favorite people aside, it was much more difficult than I anticipated – not just the organization of this project, but it turns out that writing about music is really difficult for m

Inhale. Feel your feet underneath you. Exhale. Wiggle your toes. Hold your Breath. Feel your hips in your chair. Inhale. Lengthen your torso. Exhale. Roll your shoulders down your back, let your jaw go slack. Hold your Breath for four seconds As you inhale- Feel all the parts of your core shift to accommodate the air. Take a second and breathe. In and out. In and out. How does that feel? What are your senses telling you? Now try drinking water if any is near you. For a moment