Brandi Carlile's Memoir "Broken Horses" Shows That Beautiful Things Can Come From Trauma 

Sure. Everyone deserves that. Nurture artists, they nurture the world. Support support support is what brings anything to fruition.

@Jessica McDaniels country radio is as far from country as you can get.

I'm surprised (as a person who was, before today, unfamiliar with this performer) that this is even possible... what was she, about 4?

@@petercoo9177 she’s 39 🤣 so she was more like 22/23 when I first saw her 🤣 but I’m sure she’ll take that compliment and run! 🙌🏼

@@somerflowers I am lost for words... except maybe "wow". Of course, it's the voice that's the important thing, and that's obviously not "suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", either. If she wants a compliment, I'd say that she sings "A case of you" better than Joni does, which is saying a lot. (I know, !blasphemy! especially coming from a Canadian.)

@@petercoo9177 can’t get a better complement than that! ❤️🙌🏼❤️

That is a beautiful John Prine sing. Thank you for sharing it.

Yes

You know, these apparently wise sayings actually have no meaning. Empty chars. But they answer the question "are you ok?" All these justifications and reasons and explanations are to reason with hate. Don't throw pearls before swine kid. Make up your own sayings there is no reason to be quoting other people. "Process death?" What are we, death-eaters? Sorry. I dropped in from another dimenshin, don't know your customs.

Listen to the audiobook! There is music included.

@Jessica McDaniels Hope things are going well for you. And you get better from whatever inspired that comment!

@Jessica McDaniels An artist / music shouldn’t make you this angry. It’s subjective like all arts. Perhaps listen to something you enjoy. Joni’s original Blue for example. ✌️

They don't.

Sara, Since you look young in your picture, I can tell you this: As you age, your mind changes and helps you deal with traumatic experiences. I'm not sure if that's what people mean when they say "Give it time," but that phrase has always seemed terse to me. Not comforting at all. As if the person can't be bothered to explain things better to you. I've had many traumatic experiences where I just felt like I couldn't deal with life anymore. For 35 yrs I've ultimately, time after time, convinced myself not to give up just yet. When I look back, those experiences are still horrific - so that doesn't change. However, as you learn more things in life (or move towards your goals) you'll find that you can analyze your trauma(s) from different aspects, with wisdom. You'll find happiness in the most surprising places and when you're least expecting it! During those times, your experiences with your Uncle will become less domineering in your mind. You are here for a reason. Maybe you will now help other young ladies get back their lives. In holding someone else's hand while they face their demons, you'll find that you have an incredible power that makes life more bearable. I'm not saying you have to dedicate all your time to helping others, I'm just saying that there's a power in you because of your traumas that can make you a VIP to someone else. And it feels great! I promise you, it will become less dominant in your thinking but try to find a talk therapist who can give you "tools" to help you get from day to day.

For sure, good things can result from difficult circumstances. I have a personal example of that but it isn't always the case... that everything "turns out for the better". I would say it does more often than we know, especially at first. But finding "beauty" in trauma, that's a high bar. Maybe equanimity is a better (first) goal.

I know & understand, Sara. I would highly recommend some sort of support group -- even an online group can be a start -- or offer references that may be of special value to you personally. Hang in there. It's your business of course--but may I recommend your not sharing too much with some friends/family because when you do, sometimes you end up baring your heart only to have it crushed and broken again. And no one understands...that is one of the worst feelings--worse than the original trauma sometimes. But if you can find a support group or even a book to read to offer you understanding & validation...Bright blessings.

@@rebeccacarlson9166 Exceptionally said. Beautiful advice. Thanks for giving her your time, love and attention.

Synthesized it perfectly, Ms Pencek

Funny that! But true. I'll let John have the credit for that because I love him, but that knowledge is something I grew up with as a machinist for all my life. In fact every machinist apprentice and trade school student hears that many times over well before they are ever allowed to get near a lathe. RIP John.

And only wear clip-ons if you're expecting hand-to-hand.

Congrats on coming out! I hope your life is filled with happiness, love, and support. ❤️

❤️ I’m happy for you !!

So much love to you on your journey, may the next 40 be filled with beauty 💕

@@tabaxikhajit4541 just being supportive like that, getting to know her friends and listening can do so much! Regardless of how people grow and change through their lives, positive core values like a strong focus on education will go with them. Congratulations on having such a wonderful child!

i hope you can be happy now!! ♥️ all my support

P.S. Bear Creek got me through the toughest time during my divorce. Thank you so much for your beautiful heartfelt music. It really moves me.❤️

People with ADHD, on average, are more creative and more intelligent (as a group) than people with the usual brain type, initiating novel ideas much needed by their groups, although they aren't the best people to follow through on the day after day to implement their ideas necessarily. It takes a village. Mozart and DaVinci are generally thought to have had ADHD as well, based on writings by people who knew them. And there's a fascinating little percentage of bees called streaker bees, who are excitable and always zooming out exploring the world for new fields of flowers - they come back and dance with exuberance to communicate the amazing fields they've located, so the drones can come explore the new food source. Streaker bees save the hive that way. Interestingly, nature seems to keep a fairly stable percentage of the population continuing to have that ADHD brain structure (which differs in at least 7 areas), so it serves a function. Half of people with ADHD behaviors as kids do not grow out of it, btw - because it's structural. Inventive people - with ADHD labels - may be being born in large numbers right now because the human species needs new ideas and approaches so desperately (to stop wrecking ecosystems and wreaking havoc on each other).

Right on! ADD means a kid who is either raised on tv, cola and bad food, has a brain issue that disturbs normal process function or a creative person bored out of their mind in conformity school..sit and listen. ugh. they are kids. One size fits all is ignorant.

@@tlee4218 I used to teach at a high school for kids who weren't succeeding in regular school. We found a lot of them were right right brain dominant, with mad arts skills (they won county contests like crazy). Some were just brilliant and bored out of their minds, but I could have fun teaching them with college level materials. Many were auditory learners being asked to encode nearly everything via reading instead. Most were trying to survive nightmarish situations and still stay in school: like the homeless guy with brittle diabetes affecting his mood stability severely; the 16 year old trying to hold down a full time job and keep his schizophrenic mother from burning down the house; the girl struggling with emotional dysregulation from severe molestation allowed by her mother; the guy kidnapped by his Satanist uncle, hidden in another state and kept out of school for two years; and the diabetic girl who couldn't get medication, with both parents having lost both legs from diabetes - our social worker could find no help for their family so the student kept falling asleep at her desk). Then there were the two openly gay guys thrown out of their school by a principal who disliked gays. Most students in these kinds of family situations had fallen behind in reading skills (one girl abandoned with a young sibling in a hotel - Mom said she was going out for cigarettes and never came back - had taught herself to read despite missing much school by hiding in the bathroom and studying magazines). We would test students diagnostically and offer them materials they could read, then build them quickly to more capable reading abilities. They could gain two years of reading ability in a year's time, on average, because they were in a situation where they could succeed. We set up positive rewards and outings for them as much as possible and offered unconditional love and respect - which a surprising number never seemed to have experienced. We tailored instruction for each learning style and each student's particular abilities and tried to supported them all as best we could, tried to locate services for them - and many graduated despite the challenges of their home lives. Our school won a Governor's Award For Excellence. The school is gone though, now; the largely Republican school board didn't think our students were worth the extra expense of needing the smaller class sizes necessary for individualized instruction.

@@falconbritt5461 What a wonderful story, and an absolute tragedy that the politics, yet again, damaged the great teaching methods you used, which should be widespread, so that kids with ADHD - I have two, both boys - aren't simply thrown out as unteachable. My sons weren't brought up on a rubbish diet, or inactivity, or any of the 'reasons' chucked around to 'explain' the way the brain processes its functions; on the contrary, they were lively, funny, always on the go, and slim. Not couch potatoes. All teachers need to know how to recognise and deal with ADD, ADHD, OCD, which I accept is a tall order, but if the teacher's training is more detailed in these areas too, students and staff will each gain so much from education.

I invite you to do energy work to release that trauma from your body.

@@patspears2226 Thanks, but the dreams never go away. After 46yrs of them, all I can do is acknowledge the dream and keep going.

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According to her memoir, the pastor knew that she was openly gay when she took all those classes in preparation for the baptism, but minutes before the baptism, he had to ask her if she practiced witchcraft and if she practiced homosexuality. I think she writes that it seemed really hard for the pastor to ask her that, knowing that she couldn‘t renounce it, but I too am wondering why he didn‘t discuss it earlier with her. Maybe he thought that she‘d renounce being gay for the sake of getting baptized...

Maybe “god” is an essence...not so much a being. Maybe if we show love, that’s what “god” is. If we believe in love, that’s as much god as we need to believe in, and share. I truly believe that “god”, is a connection, love, whatever we do that makes us/others better. It’s not a thing, as much as a way to be. It’s not a being, used by societies in form of religion to control and condemn, but an intangible higher level ISness, within all humans. Just a thought, that I’ve considered! I do agree that we should start believing in each other more...absolutely. If we put as much effort into loving, as into judging or “othering”, our world would be turned on it’s head.

All signs are Just Saying Seventeen, ya know? Ya know?

Now you have. Check out her NPR little tiny desk...for older stuff and the Grammy performance ‘The Joke’ for newer. Check out The Joke anyways, mind blowing. I heard of her a few years back, but only very recently really checked out her stuff after listening to her memoir. Wow. Her songwriting and performing is other level.

@@Alphacentauri819 Thanks.

Her family and community, who had not been very accepting, rejected the preacher and rallied around her. That is her meaning. Read the book .

@@bsetal22 I still don't understand. Her family and community weren't being accepting? Yet, they rejected a preacher and rallied FOR her? Are you saying they had a change of heart and became accepting?