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  I'm pretty sure were all familiar with different type of clinical rehabilitation. If you're an athlete, you may have ended up in physical therapy once or twice due to an injury. There's occupational therapy that helps aid in daily physical and cognitive skills. Speech therapy helps aid the development of speech and language. But there's one branch of therapy that not many people know much of, and that's music therapy. Music therapy is a way to reduce stress and improve mood and self expression. It can be used sometimes in clinical settings, and I feel most people have little understanding of how it actually helps people. What is Music Therapy?     As previously mentioned, music therapy "involves the clinical use of music to accomplished individualized goals such as reducing stress, improving mood, and self-expression". It provides treatment to everyone, but is especially beneficial to those who suffer with depression and anxiety, and it can also help imp...

 I saw online this journal prompt, and it was, "If you could relive any day but only pick 1, which one would you pick to relive one more time?". Well, here's my answer: I want to go back to the day March 12, 2020. While it's a rather recent date, it's a day that I will never forget and will always be held close to my heart. It was a day I realized who I was, and I let go of a part of me that should've been gone a long time ago. This day was day #3 of my senior year retreat; we had no phones, no technology. It was just me, my friends, and the world around us. Our brains were turned off from the chaotic mess we left at home, and we just spent time in each others' presence. During the retreat, we laughed, we cried (and I mean bawled our eyes out), we goofed off, we got serious, we got to know each other more, and we learned more about ourselves than ever before. The self-realization we experienced was unreal, and I will forever be grateful for that. There was...

 So I've mentioned in the beginning of the semester that I am a soccer coach. As a recap, I'll repeat that I work for a franchise called Soccer Shots, and it's a non-competitive soccer program in which I teach kids the very basic fundamentals of soccer. I started coaching in December 2019, and it's probably one of the best things I look forward to all the time. I get to work with the kids and teach them about my favorite sport, and I'm getting paid to do it (lol). But seriously speaking, I genuinely love interacting with kids because of their wild imagination and the pure joy they have every time I see them.  There are three age groups that I coach, each having a fun name along with different levels of learning. Each age groups interacts with me so differently and uniquely, and I just find that so interesting. The first age group is the "Mini's" (2-3yrs). Now I know that seems a little young to start a sport, and the common thought is that they really ...

 Over these past couple of weeks, my English/Composition class got in groups and worked on a project in which each group picks an organization to support. Once the organization was picked, we had to find an area in which we can help them out, whether it be funding, awareness, etc. It was a rather interesting project because each group was able to come together and uses their different skills and abilities to create a project from scratch. There were many parts of this project, including conducting an interview, creating a deliverable, and present out proposal to an audience. To be able to see each project unfold into its own unique thing was very cool (and also satisfying) to see. In writing aspect of it, I feel like it opened my eyes to a new style and format writing, and I found that I like to write in the context of spreading awareness of something.  As a writer, I can say that I saw some improvement in my writing style during this project. By writing up a memo, I became fa...