Podcasts about morning star singers

Today we're diving into something we use every day - our voice. Most of us are walking around with an unconscious default voice that's been patched together from old stories, childhood wounds, cultural expectations, and whatever got us through the day. But what if that voice isn't really you?Meet Barbara McAfee - voice whisperer, author, singer, and playful catalyst for authentic expression. For more than three decades, Barbara has helped people shed vocal habits shaped by old stories and step into voices that feel truly like home. Through sound, story, character work, and her Five Elements system, she makes voice liberation both profound and ridiculously fun. She's a master voice coach, bestselling author of Full Voice and Vocal Intelligence, and dynamic speaker whose two TEDx talks - including the widely viewed “Bringing Your Full Voice to Life” - have inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Her work has reached leaders, organizations, international educators, community singing movements, and countless individuals through keynotes, retreats, coach trainings, and her beloved Morning Star Singers hospice choir.Barbara, in so many ways, graces us with her presence on The Junkyard Love Podcast to remind us that our voice is the primary way we shape our world.Your voice is the instrument that shapes your expression on the way out. What we really 'mean' is upstream of the voice, and how we express what we really mean is changed by the voice - our life is lived downstream of our ability to express ourselves. Our expressions are interpreted by one another through an infinite number of micro movements, frequencies, rhythms, pheromones, sensory perceptions, biological responses, and so many more - but our voices carry truths even our own conscious perception can't filter out. Barbara shares that our voices are often shaped by past traumas, survival strategies, cultural pressure, and old stuck identities - and she teaches us how to release those unconscious holds in our physical body, allowing the voice to open and flow without restraint. In this back-and-forth conversation, we cover how most of us are unconsciously wearing what Barbara calls a “vocal girdle” - that invisible tightness and restriction we build over years from old wounds, family expectations, and cultural pressure that keeps our voice smaller and safer than it wants to be. She shares how we can gently loosen and remove it through her joyful Five Elements framework (Earth, Fire, Water, Metal, and Air), by playing with characters and archetypes, and through simple, everyday practices like laughing through the different sounds, voicing your yawns, and reading children's books out loud. We also explore the magic of group singing, the power of pretending to be someone else, code-switching with awareness, and why freeing your voice changes so much more than just how you sound - it changes how you show up in every part of your life.If you've ever felt like your voice doesn't quite match who you really are inside, this conversation is full of heart, laughter, insight, and practical tools you can start using right away - to start speaking with your real voice.Key Topics Covered:Unconscious vocal habits and the “vocal girdle” most of us wearHow childhood experiences and trauma shape our voiceThe Five Elements Framework for vocal freedomPlaying characters and archetypes to access hidden parts of yourselfThe power of group singing and collective connectionPractical daily tools to open and strengthen your voiceCode switching, ego, and authentic flexibilityVoice work for leaders, creatives, and everyday lifeChapter Timestamps (YouTube & Podcast Platforms)00:00 – Why Most People Are Stuck in an Unconscious “Default” Voice00:58 – The “Vocal Girdle”: How Old Wounds and Expectations Restrict Us02:13 – How Childhood Trauma and Family Secrets Shape Your Voice Long-Term04:10 – The Five Elements Framework (Earth, Fire, Water, Metal, Air) Explained05:40 – Barbara's Personal Story: Overcoming Fear of Singing Solo08:32 – The Secret Power of Playing Characters and Archetypes13:38 – Ego, “Brain Rats,” and Gently Expanding Beyond Your Comfort Zone22:55 – Practical Voice Tools for Leaders, Presentations, and Difficult Conversations30:29 – The Magic of Group Singing and Deep Human Connection34:05 – Jacob's Wild DJ Story: Unifying Experiences and Collective Flow40:06 – Laugh, Yawn & Read Children's Books: Easy Daily Practices to Open Your Voice46:26 – Code Switching: Shifting Voices Authentically Across Situations55:12 – Why Humans Crave Collective Ecstasy and Group Singing01:01:40 – Barbara's Books, Music, and Life's Work01:12:45 – Current Retreats, Courses, and What's Next for Barbara01:17:01 – Final Wisdom and Closing ReflectionsLearn practical voice exercises and how to speak with more confidence and authenticity.Key Quotes from Barbara“Most of us are using our kind of unconscious default voice that we think is us, but it's not. It's cobbled together with duct tape and popsicle sticks and trauma…”“We're all kind of wearing a vocal girdle.”“Pretending to be somebody else is kind of the secret sauce.”“The parts of my voice I hate the most have the greatest gifts for me.”“Our voice is the primary way we shape our world.”“Singing is like the mycelial connections between trees.”“Laughing is a great way to just open up the different sounds.”Resources & LinksOfficial Website: https://www.barbaramcafee.com/TEDx Talk (Full Voice): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze763kgrWGg & https://www.audible.com/pd/Vocal-Intelligence-Audiobook/B0GJ6S1JS3?clientContext=133-8676392-2129631&loginAttempt=true&noChallengeShown=true&srsltid=AfmBOorP30WNp0kMoRLLeUmuQ5u-QS5iM86MSz-MzEmJclaZfpu6Na-h&showMosaicSSOView=true&showAmznLopSignalBanner=trueBooks (on audible, physical copy, or Kindle!): Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence and Vocal Intelligence - https://a.co/d/0hOIWVoz // https://www.audible.com/pd/Vocal-Intelligence-Audiobook/B0GJ6S1JS3?clientContext=133-8676392-2129631&loginAttempt=true&noChallengeShown=true&srsltid=AfmBOorP30WNp0kMoRLLeUmuQ5u-QS5iM86MSz-MzEmJclaZfpu6Na-h&showMosaicSSOView=true&showAmznLopSignalBanner=trueMusic: https://barbaramcafee.bandcamp.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barbaramcafeesings/For the most up-to-date Junkyard Love Podcast news, clips, and details: @Jacobfromtheinternet on InstagramPlease subscribe, follow, and like if you enjoyed the show!

​​In this episode of Beautiful Work Beautiful Life, host Laurel Holland sits down with voice teacher, author, and songwriter Barbara McAfee for a powerful, experiential exploration of voice as a pathway to confidence, embodiment, and inner power.Together, they unpack how our voices are shaped by culture, conditioning, and lived experience—and how reclaiming the full voice can unlock clarity, presence, and self-expression. Barbara introduces her Five Element Voices framework (earth, fire, water, metal, air), offering listeners a fresh lens for understanding communication, leadership, and authenticity.This conversation is both deeply compassionate and playfully practical—an invitation to stop fixing your voice and start befriending it.In this episode, you'll hear:Why voice is not just communication—but manifestationHow conditioning and trauma shape which parts of our voice are “available”The Five Element Voices and what each reveals about power and presenceWhy confidence grows through practice, not perfectionHow play, sound, and experimentation restore wholenessWhat it means to trust the intelligence of your voiceJournaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration. What is my story about my voice?Which element of voice feels most familiar to me right now?Which voice feels least accessible—or most uncomfortable?Where might I be confusing “authenticity” with habit or conditioning?What part of my voice might be waiting for permission to return?Links/Books mentioned - Barbara's website - www.barbaramcafee.com , Barbara's email - barbara@barbaramcafee.comBarbara's TED talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze763kgrWGgBarbara's original song “Yes” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1HIPsvFgTI&list=RDI1HIPsvFgTI&start_radio=1The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is laurel@fluxflowcoaching.com and for Laurel Holland - laurel@liveyourinnerpower.comHost/Cohost/Guest InfoGuiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love's 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel's great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live. You can learn more about Laurel, her books, and work she does at www.liveyourinnerpower.com.Laurel Boivin is a leadership coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator. Founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, Laurel works with high-performing professionals and mission-driven organizations to shift from achievement to alignment — helping them connect deeply to purpose, lead with confidence, and create environments where people thrive.  A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.  You can learn more about Laurel and the work she does at www.fluxflowcoaching.com.Barbara McAfee is a master voice coach, author, keynote speaker, and singer/songwriter who merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound. Her bestselling book, Full Voice, is based on her 30+ years as a voice coach, supporting people from many professions to find their voice, whatever that means to them. Her new audiobook, Vocal Intelligence, came out in 2025. Since 2013 she has been training others to carry the sacred work of “midwifing voices” into full expression. Her approach shifts the way people think about and use their voices forever. Barbara has produced nine recordings of mostly original music and is founder of the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer comfort choir in the Twin Cities.

Voice coach and author Barbara McAfee explains why so many people are afraid to sing, what group singing does to the nervous system and the sense of self, and why the loss of communal song may be one of the most significant things modern life has taken from us. Barbara is a voice coach, author, speaker, and performer, with over 30 years of experience helping people unlock their full voice through practical vocal techniques and tools for authentic, flexible self expression. In this episode, Lian and Barbara explore what actually happens when people sing together, why the fear of singing runs so deep in so many of us, and how recorded, pitch-corrected music has done to the human voice something similar to what airbrushed images have done to the human body. They look at the oral tradition as a living technology for transmitting knowledge, holding grief, and keeping communities in tune across generations, and at the way group singing can restore something that most people don't realise they've been missing until it returns. From there, the conversation moves into singing at the threshold of death, the Morning Star Singers' eighteen years of bedside work, and what Barbara has witnessed about the way song changes the experience of dying, for the person leaving and for everyone gathered around them. Listen if you've ever felt the pull to sing with others but the fear talked you of it before you even began. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll learn from this episode: Why the fear of singing in a group runs so much deeper than shyness, and what actually put it there How group singing can move faster than team building, therapy, or any amount of talking when it comes to creating genuine connection What happens when singing is brought into hospitals and hospices, and why staff and patients alike respond as if they are remembering something Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Barbara's Website (https://www.barbaramcafee.com/) Join Barbara on: YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/mcafeemusic) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/barbara.mcafee) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/barbaramcafeesings/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaramcafee/) Watch Barbara's TEDx talks: Bringing Your Full Voice to Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze763kgrWGg) How Oral Tradition Singing Helps Us Work & Live Better Together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrRQulQnaoQ) Barbara's audiobooks & Paperbacks - For links see Barbara's website(https://www.barbaramcafee.com/store.html) Bandcamp: A catalogue of Barbara's original music (https://barbaramcafee.bandcamp.com/) Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: (https://www.unioacademy.com/) This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Register your interest for the upcoming Wild Sovereign Soul journey here (https://bemythical.com/wss). Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

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As a voice coach, singer, and songwriter Barbara McAfee's mission is to ‘midwife'women's voices. “Tell me your story about your voice” is Barbara's invitation tohelp aging women break the sounds of silence, express new sounds for healing,and experience singing for the joy of it. Her original music taps into jazz, gospel,and folk roots. In 2007, Barbara founded the Morning Star Singers, a volunteerchoir that sings for people facing illness, end- of -life, depression, or grief. She isthe author of Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence.Connect with BarbaraEmail: barbara@barbaramcafee.comWebsite: https://www.barbaramcafee.com

Barbara started her work with the voice and vocal training because of her experience as a young girl at a time where women were expected to be nice and polite. She saw that a person's experience, trauma, and even keeping family secrets while growing up can affect and manifest through a person's voice. While also coming from a family of singers, her reclaiming of her voice, power, and healing as a person has been tangled up from her roots ever since. Trauma can affect the voice and can depend on gender, class, race, country of origin, when the trauma occurred, how you survived, and so on. For example, people who infantilize their voice or talk like they're still a child reflects a person's desire to not grow up or a call for help. Another example is how sometimes a deadness or a flatness in a voice can indicate a person's need to hide their emotions especially with therapists, chaplains, social workers, and people in the medical field. The five elements of voice include earth, which is good for being grounded, projecting authority, and accessing your gut instinct; fire is for passion, personal power, and physical vitality; water is the heart and throat, the voice of the heart or anything your heart wants to say; metal is the mask or the face and can be loud without any vocal strength which is bright, sharp, and can cut through anything; and lastly is air, sourced from the crown and is good for storytelling, telling the future, and linking to the spirit. Barbara is a voice coach, trainer, and author of “Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence” which helps train individuals who want to use their voice to its full potential whether through leadership, education, or singing. She is the founder of Morning Star Singers, a volunteer choir that sings for people facing hardship such as illness, end of life, depression, or grief.   What we discuss: 06:19 – Barbara work with the voice 12:00 – Being congruent and freeing your voice 22:29 – Trauma in the voice 31:13 – How the voice expresses trauma 40:06 – Gifts and qualities of voice 47:59 – How to breathe properly 1:01:15 – Where to find Barbara   Learn more from Barbara: Website: barbaramcafee.com   To learn more about Global Sisterhood go to www.globalsisterhood.org To join a virtual circle with us go to http://www.globalsisterhood.org/virtual-circles To follow us on Instagram @theglobalsisterhood @Lauren Elizabeth @shainaconners     Global Sisterhood Virtual Circles | Global Sisterhood Connect and nourish yourself in the sacred space of sisterhood—anywhere. Join a Global Sisterhood Virtual Circle every new and full moon.

“Most people live their lives, most people go to their graves, with their music still inside them.” As a master voice coach, author, speaker, singer and songwriter, Barbara McAfee describes her work of more than 25 years as “midwiving voices across thresholds.” Whether it is an individual seeking to express his/her deepest truth, or a group looking to embrace its own power, Barbara guides them on an intimate journey to find their unique voice, sound by primal sound.  As Barbara says, “Your voice is how you get the gift inside of you out. Nothing much happens in the world until someone gives it voice.” That’s why the words “voice” and “vocation” share a common Latin root (meaning to “call, invoke or name”), she says. Her work merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound, aiming to foster awareness of unconscious vocal habits we carry that interfere with us doing our best work.  Barbara believes that the gifts uniquely expressed through our voices are not ours alone, but part of a shared destiny across humanity. So when individual voices are more fully and truthfully expressed, communities become stronger as well.  Barbara’s journey with voice began in her 20’s, when she found herself, while in a voice workshop, introduced to the full potential of her singing voice. As the range of her voice expanded, so did her life, and the stage fear that had permeated her identity up until that point as an amateur theater and musical performer gradually dissolved. Not only did Barbara feel her soul healing, it was as if the healing transcended the boundaries of time, reaching across past generations. Having experienced the healing power of a fully expressed voice, she went on to incorporate additional aspects of Jungian philosophy and yoga to develop a five-elemental approach to voice -- fire, air, metal, wood, water -- in order to help others experience the full range of their aliveness, too.  As an oral tradition song leader of many decades, Barbara uses chants and poems to open groups of people to the direct experience of mystery and wonder, as well as the power of human connection. She has witnessed how, when neither script nor leader is present, individual voices inevitably harmonize into a coherent whole. She demonstrated this in her TEDx talk where, in just under 10 minutes, Barbara catalysed the audience (numbering in the hundreds) to sing the words of the Sufi master Hafiz, discovering their innate collective wisdom.  Beyond the emergence of aliveness, Barbara also serves as a midwife to those on the edge of life. As the founder of Morning Star Singers, a volunteer hospice choir in the Twin Cities, Barbara and singers from all walks of life and professions sing songs of comfort and healing for those in the last few months, hours and minutes of their lives. Compassionately holding space for whatever is meant to unfold, Morning Star Singers offer the simple gift of presence, beauty, and meaning to those “who are often experiencing professionals and family members ‘doing things to them’.” Her book Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence is based on her 25+ years as a voice coach supporting people from many professions to find their voice, whatever that means to them. Barbara invites readers to reflect on questions such as: Are you willing to be alive? For what did we trade our raw messy human voices? What is so frightening about the possibility of authentic expression? What might be more important and interesting than your fears? The book concludes with Barbara’s original song “Brain Rats” where, with healing humor, she speaks to the common human foible of ruminating on “wicked thoughts that prove my every flaw.” Barbara has produced eight CDs of mostly original music. She lives up the street from the wild and scenic St Croix River in St Croix Falls, Wisconsin. Please join us in conversation with this midwife of voices, and accept her invitation to find and express your own. 

“Most people live their lives, most people go to their graves, with their music still inside them.” As a master voice coach, author, speaker, singer and songwriter, Barbara McAfee describes her work of more than 25 years as “midwiving voices across thresholds.” Whether it is an individual seeking to express his/her deepest truth, or a group looking to embrace its own power, Barbara guides them on an intimate journey to find their unique voice, sound by primal sound.  As Barbara says, “Your voice is how you get the gift inside of you out. Nothing much happens in the world until someone gives it voice.” That’s why the words “voice” and “vocation” share a common Latin root (meaning to “call, invoke or name”), she says. Her work merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound, aiming to foster awareness of unconscious vocal habits we carry that interfere with us doing our best work.  Barbara believes that the gifts uniquely expressed through our voices are not ours alone, but part of a shared destiny across humanity. So when individual voices are more fully and truthfully expressed, communities become stronger as well.  Barbara’s journey with voice began in her 20’s, when she found herself, while in a voice workshop, introduced to the full potential of her singing voice. As the range of her voice expanded, so did her life, and the stage fear that had permeated her identity up until that point as an amateur theater and musical performer gradually dissolved. Not only did Barbara feel her soul healing, it was as if the healing transcended the boundaries of time, reaching across past generations. Having experienced the healing power of a fully expressed voice, she went on to incorporate additional aspects of Jungian philosophy and yoga to develop a five-elemental approach to voice -- fire, air, metal, wood, water -- in order to help others experience the full range of their aliveness, too.  As an oral tradition song leader of many decades, Barbara uses chants and poems to open groups of people to the direct experience of mystery and wonder, as well as the power of human connection. She has witnessed how, when neither script nor leader is present, individual voices inevitably harmonize into a coherent whole. She demonstrated this in her TEDx talk where, in just under 10 minutes, Barbara catalysed the audience (numbering in the hundreds) to sing the words of the Sufi master Hafiz, discovering their innate collective wisdom.  Beyond the emergence of aliveness, Barbara also serves as a midwife to those on the edge of life. As the founder of Morning Star Singers, a volunteer hospice choir in the Twin Cities, Barbara and singers from all walks of life and professions sing songs of comfort and healing for those in the last few months, hours and minutes of their lives. Compassionately holding space for whatever is meant to unfold, Morning Star Singers offer the simple gift of presence, beauty, and meaning to those “who are often experiencing professionals and family members ‘doing things to them’.” Her book Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence is based on her 25+ years as a voice coach supporting people from many professions to find their voice, whatever that means to them. Barbara invites readers to reflect on questions such as: Are you willing to be alive? For what did we trade our raw messy human voices? What is so frightening about the possibility of authentic expression? What might be more important and interesting than your fears? The book concludes with Barbara’s original song “Brain Rats” where, with healing humor, she speaks to the common human foible of ruminating on “wicked thoughts that prove my every flaw.” Barbara has produced eight CDs of mostly original music. She lives up the street from the wild and scenic St Croix River in St Croix Falls, Wisconsin. Please join us in conversation with this midwife of voices, and accept her invitation to find and express your own. 

Barbara is a master voice coach, author, keynote speaker, and singer/songwriter who merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound.  Her book, Full Voice, is based on her 25+ years as a voice coach, supporting people from many professions to find their voice, whatever that means to them.  Barbara has produced eight CDs of mostly original music and is founder of the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer hospice choir in the Twin Cities.  She lives across the street from the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. In this episode, I speak with Barbara about her mission and the impact she is making in the world.  Let's dive in! www.barbaramcafee.com

Barbara is a master voice coach, author, keynote speaker, and singer/songwriter who merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound.  Her book, Full Voice, is based on her 25+ years as a voice coach, supporting people from many professions to find their voice, whatever that means to them.  Barbara has produced eight CDs of mostly original music and is founder of the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer hospice choir in the Twin Cities.  She lives across the street from the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. In this episode, I speak with Barbara about her mission and the impact she is making in the world.  Let's dive in! www.barbaramcafee.com

On episode 5 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces to two songs that continue us on the path of self thought and self-enrichment. When I Die and Living in the Light are two very personal songs that talk about a taboo subject, our own death. Or is our own death a taboo subject? Could you write your own death song? While the topic matter might seems out of sorts, after you listen to these two wonderful songs, you'll learn about the bond between two friends and how music brings healing, even in the most difficult of times. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 4 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces us to the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer singing group Barbara established to bring comfort, hope and nourishment to those who are ill. Through Barbara's song "Surrounding You", we learn the essence of creating a compassionate presence and how to bring water to someone in a desert. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 5 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces to two songs that continue us on the path of self thought and self-enrichment. When I Die and Living in the Light are two very personal songs that talk about a taboo subject, our own death. Or is our own death a taboo subject? Could you write your own death song? While the topic matter might seems out of sorts, after you listen to these two wonderful songs, you'll learn about the bond between two friends and how music brings healing, even in the most difficult of times. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 4 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces us to the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer singing group Barbara established to bring comfort, hope and nourishment to those who are ill. Through Barbara's song "Surrounding You", we learn the essence of creating a compassionate presence and how to bring water to someone in a desert. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 5 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces to two songs that continue us on the path of self thought and self-enrichment. When I Die and Living in the Light are two very personal songs that talk about a taboo subject, our own death. Or is our own death a taboo subject? Could you write your own death song? While the topic matter might seems out of sorts, after you listen to these two wonderful songs, you'll learn about the bond between two friends and how music brings healing, even in the most difficult of times. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 5 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces to two songs that continue us on the path of self thought and self-enrichment. When I Die and Living in the Light are two very personal songs that talk about a taboo subject, our own death. Or is our own death a taboo subject? Could you write your own death song? While the topic matter might seems out of sorts, after you listen to these two wonderful songs, you'll learn about the bond between two friends and how music brings healing, even in the most difficult of times. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 5 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces to two songs that continue us on the path of self thought and self-enrichment. When I Die and Living in the Light are two very personal songs that talk about a taboo subject, our own death. Or is our own death a taboo subject? Could you write your own death song? While the topic matter might seems out of sorts, after you listen to these two wonderful songs, you'll learn about the bond between two friends and how music brings healing, even in the most difficult of times. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 5 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces to two songs that continue us on the path of self thought and self-enrichment. When I Die and Living in the Light are two very personal songs that talk about a taboo subject, our own death. Or is our own death a taboo subject? Could you write your own death song? While the topic matter might seems out of sorts, after you listen to these two wonderful songs, you'll learn about the bond between two friends and how music brings healing, even in the most difficult of times. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 4 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces us to the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer singing group Barbara established to bring comfort, hope and nourishment to those who are ill. Through Barbara's song "Surrounding You", we learn the essence of creating a compassionate presence and how to bring water to someone in a desert. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 4 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces us to the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer singing group Barbara established to bring comfort, hope and nourishment to those who are ill. Through Barbara's song "Surrounding You", we learn the essence of creating a compassionate presence and how to bring water to someone in a desert. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 4 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces us to the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer singing group Barbara established to bring comfort, hope and nourishment to those who are ill. Through Barbara's song "Surrounding You", we learn the essence of creating a compassionate presence and how to bring water to someone in a desert. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

On episode 4 of "Songs For The Caregiver Soul" Barbara McAfee introduces us to the Morning Star Singers, a volunteer singing group Barbara established to bring comfort, hope and nourishment to those who are ill. Through Barbara's song "Surrounding You", we learn the essence of creating a compassionate presence and how to bring water to someone in a desert. Listen in and learn how Barbara McAfee and the Morning Star Singers are creating Healing Ties all around us!

In her mission to model and teach the content, Barbara McAfee has produced 7 CDs plus a book, Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence. She also leads two other groups, The Morning Star Singers and The Flowering Women. Having found the path herself, she is devoted to guiding others to their full potential.