Hello and welcome to Heralize This, the Self-Help Podcast that just can't help itself.

I am one of two Hannah's Hannah Hart, and today we are going to be talking about sound

baths, sound medicine, and sound therapies. What's happening with our bodies when we hear certain sounds?

Do we just enjoy tones or are we having deeper reactions? Can we have a therapeutic

expectation if we use sound as a self-help tool? Well, today I'm joined by psychologist

Dr. Maddie Elbuque, who will help answer all of our questions and perhaps pose some more.

No, it's a lot of answers. It's an answers-based podcast. It's great. It's really good. Please enjoy.

Enjoy.

Hello and welcome. Oh, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited

to dive in with you. I'm so excited too. I feel like this is, I feel like this is a topic that

people have very... Okay, I feel like this is a topic that I have a very surface level understanding of.

Very much like a postcard about an experience someone could go have that I saw at a nearby cafe.

That very surface level understanding of what a sound bath is. But before we get into that,

I want to talk a little bit about you and your history and what led you, I guess, to this work.

So, hi, who are you? Where are you from? Hi. Hi. So, I'm Dr. Maddie Elbuque. I am a psychologist.

I practice from a holistic perspective. And I have been practicing more long the lines of holistic

medicine in reference to psychology probably since like 2014 or so. I was a, you know, training,

my training is from Columbia University and there we had created like this beautiful fellowship

around what we used to call alternative medicine back then because it was alternative to the

traditional ways in which we practice psychology or other types of... The singular lens.

singular perspective, singular ideology that was labeled as the academic approach or the

licensed certified verified approaches. Yeah. Which is super antiquated. It does not.

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