https://youtu.be/SQ5edbPwR0Y?si=_sbOFB39pw7YoM73 Music helps regulate trauma responses Survivors often live in prolonged hypervigilance: - adrenaline, - anxiety, - racing thoughts, - emotional shutdown, - dissociation, - shame, - grief. Music can help calm or release emotion safely. That is why so many survivors: - sit in cars listening to songs crying, - replay certain lyrics repeatedly, - attach songs to āescape moments,ā - or use music during rebuilding phases. It becomes emotional processing when words fail.