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Healing through Art and Music

Theres a suicide epidemic in the United States. Birds in the Sky is a podcast that explores how art and music can serve as healing modalities. We all can see that throwing pills and medication at the problems of depression and anxiety are not only not working, but they may be driving the epidemic into deeper, more problematic territory.

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