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Jessica Cherry shares her journey from experiencing debilitating anxiety to becoming a certified sound bath practitioner and sound alchemist who helps others find peace through immersive sound experiences.

• Discovered sound baths during a period of intense stress while dealing with family loss and serving as power of attorney
• Experienced immediate relief after her first sound bath, describing it as "a weight off her shoulders"
• Purchased a complete set of Tibetan bowls and pursued formal certification to deepen her understanding
• Combines her musical background with healing practices to create harmonious, melodic experiences
• Uses various instruments including Tibetan bowls, quartz bowls, harps, gongs, chimes, and Native American flutes
• Leads participants through a guided meditation before and after approximately 50 minutes of immersive sound
• Respects individual autonomy, allowing participants to receive the experience in whatever way serves them best
• Views her role not as a healer but as a facilitator creating space for people to reset their nervous systems
• Describes the benefits as mental clarity, emotional release, and deep relaxation

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Show Guest:

Jessica Cherry is an award-winning entrepreneur, empowerment coach, TV host, and community leader in Central Texas. As founding Community Director of Ladies Lifestyle Network Hays County, she produces monthly networking and empowerment events spotlighting women-owned businesses. Host of She Will Empower on The CW Austin’s Connect Network TV and a Certified NLP Practitioner, she helps women release trauma, burnout, and self-doubt to create confident, purposeful lives. Jessica also owns Lone Star Sound Baths, providing sound bath sessions and runs the motherhood and lifestyle blog, Life of a Cherry Wife. 

She is a multi-award recipient, including Blogger of the Year twice for Austin Business Woman, a Community Contributor Award recipient for Austin Business Woman and runner-up for Best Online Personality in the Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin 2024. 

You can connect with her at: Lone Star Sound Baths and Life of a Cherry Wife
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Couch Time with Cat, your safe place for
real conversation and a gentlecheck-in.
Kwvh presents Couch Time withCat.
Hi, I'm Cat, trauma therapist,coach, tedx speaker,
best-selling author and yourhost here on Couch Time with Cat
.
I've spent over a decadewalking alongside people through
the real, raw and sacred workof becoming whole again through

(00:21):
the real, raw and sacred work ofbecoming whole again.
Catch Time with Cat.
Mental Wellness with a FriendlyVoice is where we have
conversations that are equalparts science and soul.
This is where we get honestabout anxiety, grief, burnout,
relationships and the braveeveryday work of healing.
You don't have to have it allfigured out to belong here.
Whether you're tuning in rightfrom here in the hill country or

(00:45):
listening across the world, Iwant you to feel seen, supported
and reminded that you're notalone.
So find your cozy spot, take adeep breath and let's talk about
what it means to be humantogether.
Today's conversation is withsomeone who has built her life
around helping people find peacein a world that doesn't slow
down.

(01:07):
Jessica Cherry is a certifiedsound bath practitioner, a sound
alchemist and licensedneuro-linguistic programming
coach.
She's the founder of Lone StarSound Baths, where she guides
people into deep states ofrelaxation, emotional release
and inner clarity throughimmersive vibrational sound

(01:30):
experiences.
Her work blends ancient healinginstruments with modern
mind-body tools and help peoplerecalibrate not just physically
but mentally and spiritually.
Her journey into this workwasn't born from a textbook.
It started in the middle of herown struggle with anxiety and

(01:50):
panic attacks.
What began as a personal searchfor relief became a calling to
create spaces where others couldexperience the same sense of
calm and renewal she found.
Today, jessica is here to sharehow sound can be medicine, how
language shapes our innerreality and how combining the

(02:12):
two can help us shift patterns,regulate our nervous system and
connect more deeply withourselves.
If you've been feeling stuck,overwhelmed or just craving a
moment to exhale, jessica'sstory and tools will give you
new ways to listen not only tosound but to the messages your

(02:33):
own body and mind are sendingyou.
Welcome.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Jessica, Thank you so much for having me.
Cat, Hi friend hey.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Listener.
You guys have to know thatJessica and I know each other.
We've known each other for alittle bit now and she is just.
She is such a bright light.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Aw yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You're just.
I'm so glad we met Me too, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
And something that we have in common is that we're
both from the RGB 956.
Shout out to the 956.
So, jessica, what originallydrew you to sound baths?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh my gosh, that is the loaded question, right?
So it was actually a friend.
A friend of mine practicesKundalini yoga and I was going
through a really tough time inmy life.
I had just lost my stepdad andgrandfather and I was the power

(03:36):
of attorney for both and I wasthe only one, and at that time
everybody kind of looked awayand was just pushing me into all
the loaded questions that youget when you deal with something
like that, and I am always andhave always been the one that
holds it together.
But I was cracking rightfullyright.
That's a big responsibility andI was developing panic attacks,

(03:59):
I was getting really sick and afriend of mine reached out to me
and said you really need help.
And I didn't.
I knew I did, but there's apoint where you're just you know
you need help, but the phonecalls are still coming in
dealing with everything because,like I said, we're from the 956
, I was dealing with it here andmy family was down there and so

(04:23):
I went with her to a sound bathand it was.
I didn't know what to expect.
I thought sound bath, I thoughtI was going to go into like some
mini orchestra or something Ididn't know anything and I'm
glad I went with an open mind,because I laid down and I was
supposed to close my eyes but Ididn't, and this woman was

(04:46):
putting me into a state that Ihad not given myself the
opportunity to do, and she wasusing all these meditative
instruments and I didn't evenclose my eyes, even though she
said your eyes.
I was just put into a differentworld that I just hadn't

(05:07):
experienced, because I mynervous system was shot and it
was a I believe it was a 45minute sound bath and when I got
out and after the sound bath Iphysically felt a weight off my
shoulders.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
That sounds, so I really want one right now.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yes, I felt a huge weight off my shoulders and I
remember walking from the roomto my car with my friend and I
looked at her and I said I wantmore.
When are we going to go again?
And she just looked at me.
She's like so you liked it?
I was like yes, I like it, Iwant more.

(05:49):
And so she has a busy scheduleand I have a busy schedule and
we weren't able to get that timetogether and I went on a couple
on my own and then I thought Iwant to buy these instruments

(06:09):
and so I went full deep in theyou know, the deep end of the
pool and I bought a whole entireset, not knowing what to do
with it, but I just wanted it inmy possession.
That's not a small expense, no.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Those are.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, they're pricey.
And my husband was like you'recrazy, but that's fine.
We've been together 15 years,it's fine.
He knows that I do these kindsof things.
So I bought the whole entireset.
I didn't know what to do and Iwas like, okay, well, I have the
set.
I need to learn how long agowas this.
That was almost three years ago.

(06:40):
And so I found a company thatwell, a school.
And so I found a company thatwas a school and I went and I
said I got the, I got theinstruments or I got the bowls.
I started with the bowls and Ienrolled and I became certified
and I was just trying to healmyself and at that time I knew

(07:01):
that sound baths were giving mean outlet of a space and a time
where I could let go.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
So it sounds like the impact it had on your mental
wellness was.
It gave you a big sense ofrelief.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
And did it decrease your anxiety?
Did it decrease?
What did it help remove?
How did the relief show in yourlife?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
So the immediate change was the after right.
So taking the time for myselfand going down this journey of
listening to these sounds it'splayed in a meditative state
gave me the opportunity to relaxmy mind and to leave my phone
on silent and to experiencesomething that you don't really,

(07:51):
or I didn't really, get toexperience on the daily right.
Who goes to sound baths everysingle day?
I don't even do that and I haveall the instruments now, but it
gave me a space to relax, tounwind, to let my mind kind of
drift.
That gave me a space to heal.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
You were saying that they had an impact on your
overall healing.
So attending these sound baths,and then you decided I'm going
to go all in.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yes, in true Jessica style, in true Jessica.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Cherry fashion.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, I dove in the deep end, bought the sound bowls
a whole octave, so I boughteight bowls.
I didn't do one bowl, I wentall in, got eight bowls, didn't
know what I was doing, found aschool and dove right in.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
It sounds like something inside of you was like
go toward this.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Totally, totally, 100%.
Because I found a moment whereI wasn't going crazy.
I found help and a time in mylife where I really needed it
and I didn't have anywhere elseto turn.
And it seemed so simple attenda sound bath, right, and I
didn't know what I was reallytruly attending, but it was so

(09:12):
peaceful and it gave my mind achance to turn off and I was
instantly hooked.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I would love to go to one of your sound baths.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I know I have a ton of instruments.
I have a rabbit hole ofinstruments now.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I've been to one or two and I just leave so relaxed.
It's really a hard.
It's hard to describe howrelaxed somebody can feel.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I mean, I've been to others and, of course, I've
facilitated my own, and the bestway I can describe my feeling
is I feel lighter.
I feel like my mind had achance to reset.
I feel like there was a lot ofcommotion and there has been a
lot of commotion in my minddealing with things and just
after that you know the deathand family and all that, just

(10:02):
life and it's good to kind ofpause, reset your brain and your
body.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah.
And then continue on and for meit was that why not just go to
sound baths?
Why?
I just keep going.
Why did you decide to become acertified sound bath
practitioner?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Because I wanted the power.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I love that.
That kind of gave me goosebumps.
Tell me more about that.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
So I wanted the power to be able to do that for
myself, but also to give it toother people myself, but also to
give it to other people.
I wanted that.
I wanted to say I foundsomething.
I have a network.
Let's do this.
I know you've been burned outor you've been stressed out or
crazy, or you feel like life isjust too much, because it can be

(10:54):
, and I know what to do.
I can give this to you, what wecan share space and time
together, and I can make youfeel the way I felt.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
And that's why I bought the bowls.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
And now I have a whole bunch more than just bowls
.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
But what else?
What else?
What's a rabbit hole ofinstruments?
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
So the rabbit hole was once you are involved in
community where there's othersound bath practitioners.
You see their instruments, youhear it, and I come from a
musical background, so my do yes.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
well, I'm a ex-band nerd back in the day and then
I'm married.
Yeah, wait, what did you playin band I?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
played the flute.
Oh, I played snare drum oh, youdid.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
I played snare drum and then I was drum major.
Oh my god, I also wanted thepower I was.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
I was the flag girl, like the color guard.
Yes, the color guard.
I missed that word, but yeah, Iwas the color guard with the,
with the whole flags, and myhusband is an ex-band director
no, that's, amazing, yes, so sobehind and he went to school for
music and all that so behindthe scenes of Lone Star

(12:06):
Soundbass.
I'm married to a ex-banddirector and it's all coming
together yes.
So when I bought the gong, hewas like, oh, I'm gonna show you
how to play God.
I'm like, back off, this is myinstrument, thank you.
Or when I was doing, when I waslearning the, the bowls, it was
more from a spiritualstandpoint of you know, going to

(12:29):
school for that and what, whatbowls heal what chakra.
And he was like no, this is anoctave scale that you don't want
to play a, b and a c together.
So I marry both of those sidesto make sure that, yes, I'm
healing you, I'm giving you whatyou need, but also it's melodic
and there's less dissonance andI'm not going to play two bowls

(12:51):
or two instruments that clash.
You know, like when you get onthe piano and let's say like
there's a five-year-old kid andthey just go conk and it's
horrible, right, it'll give youa headache if you're there for
an hour.
So I make sure that with meit's a melodic standpoint and it
sounds beautiful.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
So it sounds like a lot of harmony.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yes, and that's what I've been to sound baths before,
where I do leave with aheadache and I'm like I don't
want that.
I don't want to give peopleheadaches, that's not what
they're there for.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
So I make sure that on my end it's, it's melodic,
it's peaceful, it sounds goodbecause it is a sound bath right
, and it sounds like you hadthat musicality living inside of
you and you already had maybe atouch point for what good sound
can do yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
So like I have a clarinet at home, we have flutes
at home, we have um well like asteel tongue drum at home, we
have a trumpet at home, we haveall these band instruments, we
have guitars, so we are a homethat plays music just for fun.
And so when I did this soundbath business, you know

(14:07):
everybody's looking at me likehow do you do sound baths?
You're over here with business,but they don't know that side
of me.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
It's a natural evolution for you.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yes, and it's something that a lot of people
don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
No, you become a certified practitioner and then
you create Lone Star Soundbaths.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes, this was after playing for my husband, who was
critiquing me on a musicalstandpoint, playing for my
mentor, playing for closefriends and playing for myself.
And then they were like whydon't you take this on the road,
so to speak?
Right, why don't you do this?
And so I thought you know what?

(14:49):
Yeah, I'll do it, why not?

Speaker 1 (14:51):
And so I created it, yep.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
How has it evolved over time?
How has the business evolvedover time?
Well, for me personally, I'mnot afraid to play in front of
people where before I was afraidand I playing right now.
I play in kyle and I play inaustin.
Um, sometimes I play inwimberley and I also do private
sound baths.
That's where it has evolved, asI wasn't offering private sound
baths.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Now I do offer private sound baths who would
buy a private sound bath orcontract you like, who would be
interested in that?

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Anybody who needs space, just the way I needed
space.
They're stressed out, they wantto lay down and relax and take
a break for themselves and findpeace through music, because
music in itself is really strong.
I mean, you can go to aMetallica concert, for, let's

(15:43):
say, for example, metallica.
You're going to feel pumped up,are you?
You are, or you have a headache, I don't know, it depends.
Or if you have any other you goto, like the Wimberley live
music, you want to feel festive,right, you'll do that Same
thing with this area, thismeditative music this sound,

(16:09):
it'll put you in a state thatyou want.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
So yeah, it's when you do private sound baths.
Is it for one person at a time?
A group of friends at a time?
It could be both.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
It could be both Okay .

Speaker 1 (16:19):
That feels like so many possibilities.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's great.
So let's say, a new person iswalk them through.
So they're thinking about goingto sound bath.
Walk them through.
What happens?
I mean bath.
Do you take off your clothes?
What's happening?
Is there water involved?
What's happening?
You park in a parking lot, andthen what?

(16:44):
Park in a parking lot.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
You will take out your yoga mat or blanket and or
if you can't lay down, you letthem know beforehand and you'll
get a comfortable spot.
So the goal is to root yourselffor the time together.
So you most people bring a yogamat.

(17:07):
They lay down.
If they want to bring eyewear.
Some people, you know, somepeople like to close their eyes
or they don't want their eyesclosed.
It's all depends.
But you find your comfortablespot.
I will guide you through a kindof quick meditation just to
root you, to center you, toground you, to take that last

(17:27):
little wiggle around and settleinto the space for our time
together.
And then I will start playinginstruments and so I will use a.
Usually in the beginning it isthe set of eight bowls and I
tibetan bowls.
So I have quartz bowls, I havetibetan bowls beautiful I have

(17:48):
two harps wow I have the gong Ihave chimes.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
I feel like you need a roadie to help you unpack and
pack it all I'm, but it hasn'talways been that way.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's a learning process.
But yeah, I love the harps.
So there's a crystal harp andthen there's like a reverie harp
, which is one that lays on mylap, and then I play it.
I also have a Native Americanflute.
I love Native American flutes.
I have a lot of instruments.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
So somebody walks in, they lay down, yes, they lay
down, they get rooted.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
They get rooted, they get a guided meditation.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
And they're starting to listen to the quartz bowls or
the Tibetan bowls.
Yes, At this point.
How long does the sound bathlast?

Speaker 2 (18:41):
It'll usually last about 50 minutes for the actual
sound, and about five minutesbefore and five minutes after
will be a guided meditation, oneto put you in the state and one
to slowly take you out of thestate.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Do you ever notice that people or yourself?
I guess if you've experiencedthis, you're restless.
You're like maybe 10 minutes inand you're still thinking of I
got to get the grocery, my footitches, why is?
That person breathing hard nextto me.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
And some people fall asleep.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh, they do.
Yes, does that defeat thepurpose or do you still get the
benefit If that?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
is what your body needs, then I say just go for it
.
Unless you are snoring and youare disrupting the person next
to you, then in my group soundbaths I do say it's okay to wake
up the person next to you justbecause snoring loud does create
disruption yeah it happens yeah, I bet other bodily things

(19:40):
happen too.
They do.
I don't hear it you just smellit.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
So do you ever so do you see people restless and not
wanting to get into?
Not, maybe not wanting to, buthaving trouble really
transitioning to that morerelaxed state wanting to, but
having trouble reallytransitioning to that more
relaxed state.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes, I absolutely do, but I have learned to let them
be how they want to be.
In that time, for example, Ihad a woman who didn't lay down.
She wanted to sit, and so Imean, this was in a group
session, so there was about 40other people there, so I don't
stop, I play.

(20:23):
And at the end of the sessionshe comes up to me and she
thanks me for the session.
She said it was beautiful andshe said I had my eyes closed.
I was just listening to thesounds and I had a vision of my
dog that had passed and it wasso beautiful I needed that,
thank you.
And so I learned then thathowever they come and however

(20:48):
they are is how they need to be.
It's not my business how theywant to receive it.
I will say you know, the bestpart is lay down or find a
comfortable spot.
If you don't want to lay down,that's fine.
But I kind of learned to letthe people be and let them
receive.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
How't want to lay down.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
That's fine, but I kind of learned to let the
people be and let them receivehow they want to receive,
because I was thinking that shewas restless and she wasn't
there present fully, but she was.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Right.
So if we have a preconceivednotion of how somebody should
receive a sound bath or what itshould look like, Exactly.
We may really be inhibiting theperson's experience.
Yes, so you just give themtheir autonomy and then you make
your peace with it as apractitioner.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yes, exactly, and it gives me more peace to focus on
the music or the sounds and Ilet them be how they want to be.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Which is a perfect metaphor.
Listener for how to live yourlife.
Yes, do your best and focus onwhat you're good at and what you
can control and what you'rethere to offer.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
And then give the dignity and respect to the other
person to let them receive itor push it away or fumble around
with it.
Yes, you offer and you give itfrom a good place, a good
intention, a good heart.
Yes, and then they can do whatthey will with it.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I've had people I mean I've been doing this for a
couple of years now I've hadpeople that comes to my mind
that there was this onegentleman that did not want to
relax and instead he wasvideoing me.
I'm like, okay, that kind ofmeets the purpose.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Really.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes, so he was taking several pictures and videos and
I'm like, I just want you torelax, but okay, if you would
rather watch it later or uploadit, then that's okay.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
He was definitely having some resistance.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Right, that's like we are watching resistance
Everybody around you is meltinginto the floor and you're
videoing.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, you're videoing .

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, wow, what a metaphor though.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Totally.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
You could tell oh, he's having resistance to this
whole relaxation thing.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yes, when he's the only one in a whole room with
their everybody's, you know,relaxing and in their own,
within their own body.
And yeah, he was just with hisphone like recording me playing
the chimes and okay making hisown youtube video.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
What kinds of physical, emotional or spiritual
benefits do people typicallyshare with you?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
a lot of it is.
After they come to me, they'refirst interested in the way the
instruments sound.
I always get what was thatinstrument that you played?
I had purple visions and I'mlike I don't know.
You tell me what did it soundlike, because I mean, I'm not in
their mind.
So there's visions.
People will also fall asleep.

(23:51):
That's really common.
I'll at least have in a groupsound bath.
I'll have one person fallasleep.
It's really normal.
I've had also people that havethese mental experiences where
they're thinking and they're notthinking about the grocery list
, because that goes away afterabout 10 minutes.
They start really having timeto think through things that

(24:14):
they're going through themselvesand then the sounds end up
being the background.
But they get clarity in amoment that you don't get when
you're worried about thegroceries or worried about
dinner or the bills or the job.
You get that clarity and so alot of times I have people that
will say thank you, because thatgave me the space to go inward

(24:35):
where I wouldn't.
I would just kind of live atthe surface or live on repeat or
live on my, whatever it is thatthey're going through.
But it gives them a space to gothrough that.
On an internal, level.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Have you ever heard of a physical, like a client who
comes or who visits you, orhave you ever experienced?
Okay, this really gave me thespace to think about something.
And so then, maybe anunderlying condition healed.
Underlying condition healedLike, let's say, pain in their

(25:15):
body, or like I'm thinking of afriend and she has recurring
migraines, so something like asound bath can that help a
chronic condition?

Speaker 2 (25:21):
They say that it can.
I try to not touch on that asmuch because I don't want to say
I'm a healer, because I don'tknow what's going on with you
right, and to make thatassumption that I can heal is, I
don't think, fair to eitherparty.
So I say I'm a sound bathpractitioner, I will give you a

(25:44):
space where you can take timefor yourself and then what you
do with that time, how you wantto honor yourself, is on you.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's really wise.
Yes, I really love that.
That's a continuation on whatwe said earlier.
Like you offer it with a goodintention and from a good place
and they can do with it what arewe?
We can do with it what we will.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yes, and there's a rabbit hole.
They say that cells hear soundsand you can go down that where
they have sound baths inhospitals and they offer sound
therapy or sound healing.
And I don't want to personallysay I'm a healer, I just want to
say I'm giving.
Let's have a space togetherwhere you can reset yourself and

(26:30):
honor yourself through somereally great meditative music.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
What does certification look like?
What was that process for you?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
So there's a really big debate in the sound bath
community of being certifiedversus not being certified, and
is it worth it or is it notworth it?
Right, because who looks forthe award or the certification
on your wall?
I decided to do certificationbecause I wanted the inside
knowledge of you know 1000s ofyears or hundreds of years, and

(27:08):
I wanted that knowledge of whereis the root in this and and how
has it benefited people.
And of course, you can googlesearch that.
But I wanted it.
I wanted a more formal way togo, so I'm a forever student.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'm always looking to get degrees you and I have that
in common.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yes, I love so, of course, for me it was natural to
want to.
If I'm going to do something,I'm going to do it, in my eyes,
the correct way, and I want toget all the knowledge that I can
, and not Google knowledge.
I wanted to have somebody teachme, so that's why I got
certification and for me it wasbeneficial to me because I have
that background now and nobodycan take that knowledge and

(27:49):
education away from me so for meit was great months of courses,
years, weeks.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
What does it look like?

Speaker 2 (27:55):
totally self-paced.
The one that I took was sototally self-paced, um, but
there's all kinds of schools andyou can go paste, you can go
not paste.
You can do once a week, it's ohreally there's a lot of them
out there.
Mine was self-paced.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Okay, or you can choose not to and just ding the
bowls and yeah, listen, ifthat's your jam, go for it yeah
I I'm like jessica I reallyenjoy structure, yes, and I
really enjoy learning fromsomebody who really has a good
foundation.
Yep in it.
Your tagline says you're afacilitator and sound alchemist.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
What does that mindset bring to your work?

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Being a facilitator and alchemist, I really want to
focus on having a variety ofsound.
I feel like I'm a one-womanband, so I don't want to just
come up with bowls.
For me personally, playingbowls for 45 minutes or an hour

(29:02):
is too much on my brain, so Iwant to incorporate different
sounds.
So that's why I bring the harpand the chimes and then
sometimes, on a longer soundbreath, I'll bring in music like
an actual like two minute,three minute song, just to break
up the brain and kind of resetyourself.

(29:22):
Then I'll come back with a gongor it'll.
I like variations of melodictunes.
And so that's what I incorporate, so that's what that means for
me.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Sound alchemist.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
That sounds so fancy.
I know it feels fancy when yousay it.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Jessica, what do you hope the listener will take away
from this conversation?

Speaker 2 (29:46):
I hope that if they have not been to a sound bath,
no matter who it is, that theygo, because it really helps your
mind, and the mind is sopowerful on your body, right?
So if your mind is constantlystressed out, you don't perform
your daily life as well, and Ithink when you reset yourself,

(30:10):
not only do you feel it, buteverybody around you around you
feels it, like your family,friends, co workers, like your
whole life right.
And so what I would want thelistener to know is this type of
practice is out there, and sodon't be closed minded, open
yourself up, try it out, and Ihope you like it.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Jessica, if our listeners want to find you,
where can they contact you?
Where can they connect with you?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Lone Star Soundbaths on social media.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Lone Star Soundbaths on social media.
Thank you, Jessica.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Of course.
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
And that's a wrap on today's episode of Couch Time
with Cat.
I'm so grateful you joined mehere, whether you were walking,
driving or curled up with a cupof something warm.
I hope today's conversationleft you feeling just a little
more connected to yourself and alittle less alone in whatever
you're walking through.
If you'd like to connect withme, you can find me at Cat

(31:09):
that's C-A-T-I-A-H-O-L-Mcom, orover on Instagram at Cat
Hernandez-Hollam.
I'd love to hear your thoughts,your questions or what this
episode stirred in you.
If we had a guest on today'sepisode, you can find all their
links and info in the show notes.
Please support their work andfollow along.
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Until next time, be kind toyourself.
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