Songs to Sit With
Songs to Sit With
When grief takes your words, music often arrives first.
Before we can explain what’s happened.
Before we can make meaning.
Before we can even name what we’re feeling.
Music reaches places language can’t.
Why music matters in grief
Grief doesn’t just live in thought.
It lives in the body, in memory, in the nervous system.
Music moves differently.
It bypasses logic and speaks directly to the parts of us shaped by rhythm, tone, and familiarity.
It can calm a body that feels constantly on edge.
It can open emotion without demanding explanation.
It can hold memory gently; sometimes painfully, sometimes tenderly without asking us to perform or respond.
A song can bring someone back in an instant.
A voice.
A moment.
A time when life looked different.
And sometimes, that’s exactly what we need.
What these songs are for
These are not playlists to fix you.
They’re not designed to soothe everything, cheer you up, or move you on.
They’re here to sit with you.
To offer presence when silence feels too loud.
To give shape to feelings that don’t yet have words.
To help your nervous system settle, or simply feel less alone - for a few minutes at a time.
You don’t have to listen deeply.
You don’t have to listen at all.
One song is enough.
How to use this space
There is no right way to be here.
You can:
listen to a single song and stop
let one play in the background
skip through
come back to the same track again and again
leave without finishing
Nothing here needs to be completed.
Song Collections
These collections are loosely held not categories you need to fit into, just places you might land.
When sleep won’t come, and everything feels louder after dark.
When the feelings are there, but stuck - heavy, numb, unreachable.
When you need something beside you, but not conversation.
When grief feels too big for a chair.
Songs that carry memory - not always gently, but honestly.
A quiet invitation
Some songs carry more than we can say.
If there’s a song that holds your person, your loss, or your grief
you’re welcome to share it.
You don’t need to explain why.
You don’t need to write a story.
Just the song is enough.
Use the contact form and select I’d like to share something that has helped me sit with grief.
No pressure.
No guarantee it will be added.
Just an open door.
A quiet permission
You’re allowed to turn this off.
You’re allowed to skip the ones that hurt.
You’re allowed to stay longer with the ones that don’t.
Music doesn’t heal grief.
But it can make space for it.
And sometimes, that’s enough.
