Music as Medicine for the Heart & Nervous System
Music has always been part of my healing journey.
Sometimes words aren’t enough – and that’s where sound steps in.
The songs shared here are created from lived experience:
survival, recovery, grief, humor, resilience, joy, and remembering who we are beneath the trauma. Some are playful, some are raw, some are soothing – but all are made with intention to share my journey in a safe way.
I don’t make music to impress.
I make music to move energy, tell truth, and help regulate the nervous system – mine and yours.
What You’ll Find Here
- Healing songs & sound medicine
- Spoken word, experimental tracks, and intuitive creations, some folky vibe, hip hop and whatever silly other genre my brain comes up with. 🙂
- Music made for grounding, release, laughter, and reflection
- Art created outside of industry rules or expectations
If a song meets you where you are – then it’s doing its job.
– Listen when you need comfort
– Listen when you need courage
– Listen when you just need to feel less alone
(More music will be added as it’s created.)
Check out Prelude – my first album here! 🙂
OR click here for Instant Download!
You can listen to most of the tracks on youtube for free, not necessarily in order HERE!
And you can listen to all tracks on Prelude in order on Suno for free, HERE!
In the meantime, I’d like to share a few recent songs I wrote for your enjoyment right here on this site. 🙂
This first track is called “I’m Still Here” which was the finale of Prelude, the journey that comprises mostly of my earlier walk in this world…
This track is one of my newer ones no one has even heard, written about one major lessons I’ve learned about patterns vs promises.
Listen to “Patterns Don’t Lie” below. 🙂
Here’s a silly one I also wrote recently that hasn’t been heard anywhere but here called “Brain Damage Is Fun (Underrated)” where I make fun of some of my new brain process’ and share the blessings in disguise, which is a general theme in MOST of my music. 🙂
And if you prefer more contemplative tunes, this one, “Beyond Time” literally came to me while I was talking to a fiend on the phone and I had to start writing, eventually hanging up…lol Sorry, friend. 🙂 And I won’t tell you what this one is about and let you decide after listening.
I sincerely thank you for listening and hearing me….from the center of my heart. Most of us on this site know, I haven’t always been heard…so music is my new means of communication and sharing the stories I attempted for decades…
You will also be able to find me on spotify, apple and other music streaming platforms VERY SOON!
Thank you for being here for this transformative journey! <3
“Prelude is the cathartic debut of Shamanka Love, a fourteen-song passage through the inner weather of the human spirit and the fragile terrain of the world we move through. Its sound is unified – hushed, haunting, and deliberate – but it is the language of the heart that lingers long after the final note dissolves into silence.
Each song rises from lived experience. These are real stories, shaped by real moments, yet they never remain confined to a single life. What begins as something deeply personal soon reveals itself as something shared, because the struggles, reckonings, and awakenings traced here belong, in one form or another, to all of us. Shamanka Love writes not to document a life, but to translate it by turning memory into meaning, and pain into something that can be held, understood, and perhaps released.
At first, the listener walks beside a voice shaped by experience – intimate, vulnerable, unmistakably human. Only gradually does the perspective shift. Without announcement, the mirror is lifted, and what once seemed like another’s story begins to reflect our own. That recognition arrives with quiet force on “Time Is Now,” before the closing track carries both artist and audience upward, not in escape, but in renewal.
To single out moments would fracture what is meant to be whole. These songs breathe most fully together, each one answering the last, each revealing another shade of truth. Even the most striking lines resist extraction, as though they belong not to a page, but to the living arc of the album itself.
What remains is a rare kind of honesty. In a world where so many voices are shaped by expectation and restraint, Prelude speaks freely…without filters, without permission. Its emotional candor is not simply moving; it is healing. These songs do not ask to be consumed. They ask to be felt.”
~ Rusty Moose, Shitake Radio