Welcome to episode 332 of Live Happy Now.

We've talked a lot on this show about how music can help heal our emotional wounds,

but today's guest explains how it heals us physically too.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with a recording artist Paul Cardle.

Paul was born with a congenital heart defect that doctors believed he could not survive.

But he proved them wrong, and as part of his healing journey, he discovered the power of music.

Today, he's a classical pianist who not only creates healing music, but shares with others

how it can soothe the heart,

literally and figuratively.

Paul, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Good to be with you.

Your story is so interesting, very fascinating.

And before we can talk about what you're doing now, we really need to go back to when you were

born, which is not usually

where we start on the podcast, but it really begins with you being born with a congenital

heart condition. So can you tell us a little bit about your backstory and your birth?

Yes. And thank you again for having me. Congenital heart disease is the number one cause of infant-related

deaths, and there are thousands of types of deformed hearts that are when a child is born that they have.

And it usually requires a lifetime of medical assistance and surgeries.

And when I came into the world in 1973, this was relatively new. There was not a lot

of information. Not a lot of people were surviving. My mom came from a large family. When she was

four years old, her mother gave birth to her baby sister named Joanna, who only lived two days. They discovered she had a

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