The Ways Music Can Affect Your Life

It is a fact that music affects your brain. Your body can respond to music without you even noticing and can turn a bad day into a good one. There are many benefits to listening to different types of music and even ways it can help you learn more about yourself. Read on for five ways that music plays an important role in your life. 

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Paisley Hansen is a freelance writer in both physical and mental health. When she isn’t writing she can usually be found reading a good book or hitting the gym.

Ghosting - Do You Have Friends That Vanish?

Lately I’ve been noticing a pattern and I’m curious if you experience it too. One that always knocks me out and blindsides me…

I like to call it the vanishing friend syndrome (AKA “Ghosting” in the dating world. )

Sometimes it occurs when a crisis strikes and you notice some people in your life just bail. They disappear. Vanish into thin air. No calls. No texts. No card or casserole.

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Amy Ahlers, the Wake-Up Call Coach and bestselling author, is on a mission to stop women from being so darn hard on themselves. Since 2000, she has been an International Certified Success Coach, the CEO of Wake-Up Call Coaching, and co-founder of Inner Mean Girl Reform School with Christine Arylo, Visionary Ignition Switch with Lissa Rankin, and Find Your Calling with Lissa Rankin and Martha Beck. Her newest passion is supporting moms to embrace the whole truth of motherhood, messiness, and magic with the Mama Truth Circle.

Amy has been a featured expert on lots of TV & radio shows, and for media outlets like ABC, FOX, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post. She loves lighting up the stage at events where she wakes people up to the voice of their Inner Wisdom and helps them cultivate the courage to act on it. You can find her on Facebook and Twitter, inspiring women to find the everyday sacred.

Her first book, Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar (New World Library, 2011), shot up to #1 in several categories on Amazon, including Self-Help, Happiness, and Self-Esteem. Her next book,  Reform Your Inner Mean Girl: 7 Steps to Stop Bullying Yourself and Start Loving Yourself, she co-wrote with Christine Arylo and is due out in April of 2015 from Beyond Words.

A 2010 recipient of the Women Who Dare Award from Girls Inc., she holds a BA from the University of California, earned the CPCC designation from The Coaches Training Institute, and is a Master Coach Equivalent. Amy is known best for her unconditional love, relentless enthusiasm, and kick ass truth telling. You can often find Amy in the San Francisco Bay Area holding hands with her husband, Rob, as they run after their firecracker daughters, Annabella and Evie Rose.

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Woman with earbuds listening to music while standing in front of grafitti wall
09/10/2021
It is a fact that music affects your brain. Your body can respond to music without you even noticing and can turn a bad day into a good one. There are many benefits to listening to different types of... read more
eerily ghost-like hand reaching out to touch glass
08/17/2015
Lately I’ve been noticing a pattern and I’m curious if you experience it too. One that always knocks me out and blindsides me… I like to call it the vanishing friend syndrome (AKA “Ghosting” in... read more
Woman with earbuds listening to music while standing in front of grafitti wall
09/10/2021
It is a fact that music affects your brain. Your body can respond to music without you even noticing and can turn a bad day into a good one. There are many benefits to listening to different types of... read more
eerily ghost-like hand reaching out to touch glass
08/17/2015
Lately I’ve been noticing a pattern and I’m curious if you experience it too. One that always knocks me out and blindsides me… I like to call it the vanishing friend syndrome (AKA “Ghosting” in... read more