A2H #14 | Writing Our Lessons with Amber Jeanseau

Has there ever been a time in your life where you got so tired of ruminating on the same thing? Maybe there was a nagging idea or thought in the back of your mind that just never quite allowed you to experience more gratidude instead of criticism. To feel more acknowledgement towards yourself instead of blame, or more love instead of distrust. Have you ever gotten so real with yourself that one day you asked yourself such an an honest, mind-opening, thought-provoking, reality-bending, life-changing question? Now, that sounds extreme but trust me, that is the power of asking the right questions! But it takes a LOT of sitting with yourself in really diffucult times to formulate such a question.That’s exactly what happened with, Amber Jeanseau, who one day reached a boiling point of repeating the same story in her head that she asked herself such a simple question from such a loving place, and her life would never be the same for it.Amber is a singer-songrwriter originally from East Tennesee. She was born into a life of rhythm and rhyme with a love and apprecaition for poetry and music. After growing up mostly writing poetry, it wasn’t until she got older that she ever considered combining music and poetry to make songs. Despite pursuing a career in business and marketing, music remained her "safe place" for expression. It wasn't until a move to California and a certification in recording engineering that she found herself back in the studio, feeling the most alive she had ever felt. Now, after years of hiding her music out of fear and imposter syndrome, Amber is finally recording her first album and has released two singles! "Drove Past Your House" was released in October 2022 and “All At Once Again” was released in Feb 2023. You can find her music on Spotify and all major streaming platforms under Amber Jeanseau.In this episode, Amber and I do a deep dive into the hard questions we’ve had to ask ourselves and how as writers, we’ve been writing our own lessons without even realizing it. From learning to relinquish control and surrender to the current of life, to finding more compassion, love, and understanding for our parents and how they did their best to raise us with the tools they were given. Other topics we discuss include:how Amber had a poem published on the local news station at age 6!how she was born into a family of artistshow she learned at a young age how to make people like youhow being a writer can turn you into a perfectionisthow the pandemic brought out the empath in herhow her job and people pleasing became an escape from her own self carewhat a soul contract isfiguring out your needs in adulthood outside of the needs to address your inner childhow poetry and expression has helped us improve the relationships with our parentshow powerful it can be to focus on gratitude instead of what we lacked when it comes to our childhoodAmber’s process in the recording studioConnect with AmberIG : @amberjeanseaumusic Linktree and Singles: Amber Jeanseau ________________________________________Enjoy the podcast?Please subscribe and leave a review here!Follow the PodIG: @art2heart.podcastWebsite: art2heart.life_______________________________________Podcast artwork by Holly Pelletier Clark@themoonstorybook