🎶 Music for Mental Health: A Playlist Post

Music is a proven mood-lifter, a boon to mental health. Thankfully, it’s always been a big part of my life. In fact, it’s one of the top three ways I practice self-care.

I grab my over-ear headphones, turn on the Self-Care focus mode on my phone, and disappear into myself for a while.

Because different days and situations can call for different music, there’s any number of genres, songs, and artists I’ll listen to. However, I have a playlist that contains a number of songs I especially love that are almost guaranteed to improve my mood and make me feel better. Those songs are below!

• Celebration Song by Holding Absence
• Island by The Starting Line
• Too Much by All-Time Low
• You Gotta Be by Des’ree
• Phantom Limb by The Shins
• Bright Horses by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Shake by Walk Off The Earth
• Move Along by All-American Rejects
• Get Around This by SafetySuit
• Chocolate by The 1975
• Hello by Sugarbomb
• Any Other Way by We The Kings
• Come & Get It by Selena Gomez
• Peppers and Onions by Tierra Whack
• Just Let Go by Mae
• Kick Some Ass by Stroke 9
• Hello Seattle by Owl City