LYNNE’S STORY
I've spent my life in a deep relationship with music and sound. What I didn't know at the time was that intentional sound would one day save my life.
For over three decades as a musician, educator, sound healing therapist, and coach, my path has been shaped by resilience, healing, and transformation. Today I guide people from all walks of life to release stress, restore balance, and awaken a deeper harmony in mind, body, and spirit — through the transformative power of sound.
But it wasn't always this way.
My love of music began before I had words for it. I loved singing from a young age, and at 9 years old, I started playing the flute. By high school, I was earning scholarships, awards, and the title of an All-State Musician. From there, I went on to complete two Bachelor’s degrees—one in Business, the other in Music—followed by two Master’s degrees in Music, graduating with honors.
On the outside, it looked like I had it all together.
On the inside, I was slowly drowning.
I chased milestone after milestone, convinced the next achievement would finally make me feel good enough. But the more I accomplished, the more anxious, overwhelmed, and disconnected I became. My body began telling the truth I was trying to outrun — chronic migraines, unexplained pain, ongoing health problems, and exhaustion that no amount of rest could touch.
After graduate school, my life unraveled in ways I hadn't anticipated. A painful divorce. The trauma of domestic abuse. I tried to push through, believing that strength and resilience would be enough. Behind the polished résumé was a different reality — severe burnout, chronic anxiety, and the growing sense that the life I had built didn't truly belong to me.
And the Universe wasn’t going to let me ignore it.
First, it whispered. Then it nudged. And eventually, it roared.
Then three events changed the trajectory of my life.
My father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was given only months to live but he was an incredible warrior. His mindset was so extraordinary that he lived three more years, and they still talk about him at the hospitals in Iowa City. When he passed, I went through a profound identity crisis. Who was I without my dad? What was I here for?
Shortly after his passing, a serious hand injury threatened to end my music career entirely. Reconstructive surgery, physical therapy and several months without playing. And then, as if the universe wanted to make certain I had received the message, there was a diagnosis of a rare, serious autoimmune condition.
Years of perfectionism and chronic stress had taken their toll. Something had to change.
For the first time in my life, I had to stop.
In the silence that followed, one question kept surfacing: Who am I, and why am I here?
I had always known the incredible power of music, having lived it for decades. But when I stepped into the world of therapeutic sound, I discovered something far beyond what I could have imagined. Sound was about presence, not performance.
The shift was steady.
My mind, body, and spirit began to come into balance again. My nervous system began to settle. The pain lifted, the anxiety subsided, and I started to experience moments of genuine peace for the first time. Not because I had achieved more, but because I had become more aligned.
As I continued this work, my spiritual awareness deepened. In regulated, coherent states, I began to experience what I now call the Sacred Kin — ancestral and intuitive guidance that supports the healing container of my sound journeys and coaching.
Sound didn’t just help me recover. It changed how I live.
Today, I share Sound as Medicine.
Sound is no longer something I “perform.” It is something I steward.
Sound became my medicine, and now it is my life’s work.
I guide high-achievers, empaths, creatives, and leaders out of chronic stress and nervous system overdrive and into regulation, clarity, and sustainable alignment. Through intentional sound journeys, grounded nervous system science, and the sacred wisdom of the Sacred Kin, I hold a safe and steady container for real transformation.
This is not about escape. It is about coherence. It is about coming home to yourself.
And it is my deepest honor to walk beside those who are ready to live — not from survival, but from alignment.
