Being authentic and honest breaks isolation. This creates a connection between you and others, and in the cases where it's public, it also creates space for those who are listening to feel seen too. You can’t break anyone else’s isolation, but you can create an atmosphere for yourself and others that encourages connection and growth. 

The goal is not to prepare musicians to become mental health practitioners, but to understand ways that our music and relationships with other musicians can be a positive and essential. By nature, music can be very isolating. Recognizing and breaking our own isolation will offer an opportunity to create an atmosphere for fans to do the same. 

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1. Why is isolation so harmful? 

2. Breaking your own isolation in a very isolated industry

3. Creating an atmosphere that helps fans break their isolation