CepheidVariable - Yup!

My teacher is super perceptive and one of the few people in my life who just "gets me". I'm so grateful for that. And he's good at reflecting back to me what I'm doing/feeling, which I've never really had a therapist do well - it's weird and helpful. He'll notice things about my approach to music/practice/life and tell me what he notices, and it's usually something helpful that I hadn't thought about.

He's also really non-judgemental, again, so much more than any therapist I've seen! It's been great for me to practice saying "no" (as in, "No, I really don't like that song and don't want to play it - what else can we work on?" ha!)

And I've learned that playing music that matches my mood can be really helpful! You'd think that playing depressing music while you're depressed would make you more depressed, but sometimes it actually makes me less depressed - maybe because of the congruence? Or the ability to express what you're feeling? It's neat!

That's funny about the teacher that jokes about being the local therapist, my teacher has said that too!