The songs of Life
What makes my work unique is its ability to boost the core healing process in a focused way so it can have the momentum and direction needed to create the type of change my clients seek. To accomplish this incredibly difficult task, you need a tool that supercharges the core healing process. The tool I use to do this is called the songs of Life. I was given the songs of Life about 30 years ago by way of a mystical experience with the natural world as I was going through my own emotional struggles (click here to read more about my healing journey). The songs are a very old, earth-based healing modality that allow me to connect clients with the power of Creation so they can heal in ways they can’t on their own.
Using the songs of Life to heal would fit impeccably within a Native American culture, but it’s completely foreign to ours. When you don’t know something, you tend to try to link it up with something you do know so you can relate to it. I’ve had people try to compare the songs to things like music, or to something called sound therapy, but the comparisons never work. I’ve written about song in my blog, but in the end, I’ve had to accept the fact that no matter how I try to explain them, you won’t know song until you begin to experience it yourself.
So, the incredibly powerful and rare tool that has sat at the heart of me being able to create lasting, tangible change with my clients for 25 years 1) Links those in need up with something called the power of Creation, which is an experience that the normal person in this culture has no idea exists. 2) Impacts the core, which is a part of the emotional system that all of my clients are strongly cut off from at the beginning of their work. 3) Is a type of medicine that sounds as crazy to us as doing jumping jacks would be to dealing with a headache. Welcome to my world!
In the end, understanding what song is and how it works hasn’t led people to sign up for this work. It’s the results that it, coupled with my approach, has helped us generate.
Testimonials
‘My work with Doug has been significant, life changing, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and one of the best and most important journeys I have taken. Doug has helped me to develop the tools that I need to take care of myself, to heal, and to become more attuned to my emotional experience and to reality. I have found Doug’s approach to be straightforward, honest, and pointed, always keeping site of the deep and underlying emotions and issues at hand. Through song, Doug has created a space in which I feel able to face difficult emotions in a supported way. He has helped me to begin the process of learning how to bring my truth to the table and how to have a more grounded day to day experience. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Doug. He is truly a gifted healer.’—LO
‘I just wanted to take this moment to thank you, deeply and sincerely, for all you have given me over these past few years. Of course, there are the specific ‘crunches’ you helped me to navigate through- from [healing through my fear so I could] get married (thank you ‘Songs of Love’) to [healing through my fear and terror so I could] go through knee surgery and 1,000 other things in between. But what I’ve gained from our work together goes beyond the sum total of these things. I have gained an inner knowledge of myself and have grown tremendously throughout.’—MS