Music Therapy: Songs to Validate Feelings

 Music Therapy

 Often, all we need to heal from emotional wounds is validation, and that validation can come from many sources. Music is the universal language of emotion. It emerges from feelings, and allows them to take form.

Artists have cultivated a talent for expressing emotion, and may have produced something that really resonates with a feeling you've had. This is a list of songs and artists that validate particular feelings that we feel a lot in therapy. I will divide them according to emotional categories. PLEASE COMMENT with Suggestions to add to this list! I will have to screen them, but will be updating it frequently. Don't be ashamed of your music taste! You may find some of my faves from boy bands and classic Justin Bieber on here...


Heartbreak/ Regret:

-"Amnesia" by 5 Seconds of Summer

-"Aubrey" and "Diary" by Bread

-"When I Was Your Man" by Bruno Mars

-"Die from a Broken Heart" by Maddie and Tae

-"In My Bones" by Ron Pope

-"More Than This" by One Direction

-"Tears" by Clean Bandit

-"If the World was Ending" by JP Saxe and Julia Michaels

-"Before You Go" and "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi

-"The Night We Met" by Lord Huron

Resentment/Anger:

-Anything by Simple Plan, but certainly "Perfect" and "Shut Up"

-"Thank You" by MKTO

-"Numb" by Linkin Park

-"Closure" by Taylor Swift

-"Heartless" by The Fray

-"Because of You" by Kelly Clarkson

-"Hate (I Really Don't Like You), by Plain White T's

Grief:

-"Everything I Own" by Bread

-"Supermarket Flowers" by Ed Sheeran

-"Down to Earth" by Justin Bieber

-"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" by Bee Gees

Surviving Trauma

-"Pray" by Kesha

-"Warrior" by Demi Levato

-"Face Down" by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

-"Control" by Zoe Wees (Anxiety and Panic)

Body Image/Self Love:

-"I Wonder When I Love Me is Enough" by Demi Levato

-"Try" by Colbie Callait

-"Scars to Your Beautiful" Alessia Cara

-"Beautiful" by Cristina Aguilera

-"Beauty Hurts" by Beyonce

-"I Love Me" Demi Levato

Suicide

-"One More Light" by Linkin Park

-"Never Too Late" by Three Days Grace

-"1-800..." by Logic

Numbness/Feeling

-"Doctory My Eyes" by Jackson Browne

-"Chandelier" and "Breathe Me" by Sia

-"Skyscraper" by Demi Levato

-"Mad World" by Michael Adams

Loneliness:

-"Lonely Day" by Phantom Planet

-"Show Me the Meaning" by Backstreet Boys

-"What About Me" by Moving Pictures

-"Welcome to My Life" and "I'm Just a Kid" by Simple Plan

-"Only" by NF, and anything by NF

-"Miserable at Best" Mayday Parade

Empowerment:

-"I Will Find a Way" by Nico and Vinz. (check out the music video from my research internship! https://vimeo.com/182171639

-"Let It Go" by Elsa

-"High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco

-"Fight Song" by Rachel Platten

-"Its My Life" by Bon Jovi

-"Champion" by Carrie Underwood

-"Don't Kill my Vibe" Sigrid

- "Not Afraid" by Eminem

Healing

-"Recover" by Natasha Bedingfield

-"Kinsuki" by Gabrielle Aplin

-"Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas

-"You Belong" by Francesca Vadistelli

-"High Hopes" by Kodaline

Vulnerability/Authenticity

-"Let it All Out" by Relient K

-"If You Want Love" by NF

-"Grow as We Go" by Ben Platt

-"Beneath Your Beautiful" Labrinth

-"True Colors" originally by Cyndi Lauper

Acceptance

-"Let It Be" by The Beatles

-"Move Along" by All-American Rejects

-"It Does To Me", by Luke Combs

Christian

"Symphony" by Switch

-"Known" by Tauren Wells (Christian)

-"Even If" by MercyMe 

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  1. CatFebruary 10, 2021 at 2:58 PM

    potential additions:

    Stress:
    "Hurry, Hurry" by Air Traffic Controller
    ' "Listen To Your Heart" "No" ' by Cheekface
    "Fine, Great" by Modern Baseball

    Acceptance:
    "Spent My Life" by Kindred
    "It's Alright" by Mother Mother
    "Dance and Cry" by Mother Mother
    "So Down" by Mother Mother

    Vulnerability / Authenticity:
    "Shatter Us" by The Rocket Summer
    "Blank Slate" by Sunhead
    "I'm Good" by The Mowgli's
    "Arizona" by UPSAHL (explicit)

    Empowerment:
    "Get Up" by Mother Mother
    "Life Is Beautiful" by Tim McNorris
    "It Gets Better" by COUNTERFEIT. (explicit)

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