Project Inspiration
In the spring of 2005, Cathy Chapman contacted me with a request. She
was interested in recording a guided journey for healing disturbances
or trauma experienced from conception-through-birth. She contacted
me, asking if I might consider writing and recording a song
to follow her guided journey on the CD. I told her that I was open
to the possibility, but that I was not a prolific songwriter, and
would have to see if my “muse” made
an appearance in response to her request.
We scheduled a phone meeting to discuss the core concepts that we both
felt would be nourishing, supportive and embracing for someone who had
just been through an inner journey of re-creating their experience from
conception-through-birth. Both of us have training as counselors/therapists,
had been on a long journey of healing, ourselves, and had a strong sense
of what a song might offer at the end of a powerful and, hopefully, healing
experience.
I ended the conversation by telling her I would sit with my notes from
our conversation, see if anything came to me, and be in touch if it did.
As it turned out, I had a profound wave of inspiration that very
day, and the entire song, “A Place For You Here” came to
me that afternoon. I was very moved by this experience, and very confirmed
that this collaboration with Cathy was a relevant use of my particular
energy and talent. With this dramatic “green light”, we began
the process of creating the CD.
Soon after I began working on the fine-tuning and arranging of the song,
it became clear to me that it would be much more powerful and impactful
if my husband, Richard, sang it with me, so that we could offer this
loving song of welcome from the voices of the father and the mother.
I invited him to sing the song with me, and a deep process unfolded for
all three of us as we set about creating this CD.