Remembering loved ones through songs and stories
Music to Die For is described as a space for people who have been bereaved "to honour their memory, keep their story alive and explore the role music plays in your connection to them".There is a guide to help people submit their stories with four parts:About the musicMaking connectionsFinding meaningMoving forwardThese are then shared on the website and via social media.The project is being supported by a Creative Health Residency by Britten Pears Arts in Suffolk.Dr Harrison said: "As a clinical psychologist I'm really interested in emotion and how we understand and explore our experiences and improve our wellbeing, and music for me is a really key ingredient for that."Music allows us to sit in a particular emotion that we're feeling."We feel this whole messy array of emotions, as humans, and sometimes we just need a piece of music to hold us in that space. "That can be a joyful piece of music, sometimes that can be a deeply emotive or sad piece of music that enables us to connect with that loss and that sad feeling."Also it can help us map our journey - we know grief isn't a linear process, we will move through a range of different experiences that link to yearning and loss."But also to the bittersweet nature of remembering the joyful parts."
Ms Anders said: "I've always had a life and career in music, so every single minute of my day was filled with music in some way."After my husband Rob died, for a good number of months I just couldn't listen to music at all. "I couldn't see it live, I couldn't listen to it at home, I just didn't want music. "Then very gradually I started to reintroduce it. "But what has happened now is the music I listen to is almost completely separate from what I was listening to before. "My tastes have really developed and grown, I'm listening to stuff now I wouldn't have listened to before. "I'm going to gigs that I wouldn't have gone to you before, it's opened up a new relationship with music that feels healthy. "There is a saying 'grieve fully and live fully'."It's allowing me to stay connected to Rob, but at the same time It's about the forward path while still connecting to what I had."
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