Thank you. You have helped me understand some of my emotions. I'm trying to get stronger, and do more of what brings me joy, sewing, painting, gardening but find it overwhelming. I pray you continue to have the grit to create. Go girl.
Thank you so much, and I pray for the same thing too. It is incredibly overwhelming to create when sick. I so hope you find a way to do more of what brings you joy ❤️
I was just thinking of you this past week and hoping you were ok. Bandcamp let me purchase the Salem single — its beautiful and I am so pleased to support your creative work. What a gift you are (even when not creating). Thank you.
This is awesome, that you accomplished all this! Creativity is so important.
I have EDS, which means I'm wheelchair dependent, and in pain pretty much all day, every day. Always tired. Like you, I'm a singer, and I hate those days when I just can't sing. I think few people realise how much singing actually asks from the body. All the muscles that have to work exactly right. Your breath support, your posture... it all matters so much.
Then there's my writing, which has honestly saved my life. Because writing helps me process what's going on in my head. All the thoughts, the doubts, the sadness, the anger... it all finds an outlet in writing.
I sooo hear you! Creativity saves lives. And gosh, singing requires so much from the body. I too hate those (often very long) periods where I can’t produce a proper sound even. I wish we could sing all the time!
Congratulations!!!!🥳🥳🥳 This is very exciting!! I just pre-ordered Salem on apple music - I love your voice: it’s beautiful y haunting. I’m super-happy your voice and songs are going to be out in the world soon!!
I’m a poet and it takes me a long time to write a poem, from first draft through many revisions into a place where I’m happy with it. I find revising the hardest because my brain has to be functioning at a level where I can analyze. Sometimes it takes years. I try to write one line a day to keep me tethered to poetry y creativity. But can wait months to be ready to revise. Luckily, lately I’ve been able to do revision work early in the morning. Then much later in the day I may try to make the changes in Word on my computer, which is malfunctioning so doesn’t always work but can’t afford a new one.
Writing y being creative brings me joy y purpose. It really increases my quality of life. It’s just a matter of trying to figure out how to do it given our health y energy limitations.
Yay thank you so much for pre-saving! And thank you for sharing! I found writing lyrics easier when I had mild/moderate ME. Now there’s just a lot of emptiness. I use mornings too to revise, it’s like my brain is clearer. And yes, creativity really does give us quality of life. It sucks that we are so limited.
So incredibly impressed, Madelleine, by how you shepherd yourself quietly and insistently toward your best creativity. Congratulations on the release of your music! I love your voice. And I know how ME/CFS can mess with a voice. Before CFS I was toying with the idea of being a voice professional, but after I recovered, and every other part of me was as healthy or better than before, my voice didn't have the juice it had once had. Luckily other directions in life were opening up so it wasn't a huge loss. But to this day I have to be careful in how I record my podcasts and audiobooks. I have to have a certain amount of rest, place the voice a certain way, do short sessions...you know the drill. My limit is 30 minutes. And here you are, figuring out how to make magic one line at a time! I'm grateful for your dedication to yourself. Huge congratulations on making your music magic available to the world! Many blessings to you.
Thank you so much for sharing this. And yup, I so know the drill. Thankfully I’ve had great voice teachers who have helped me out technically, but still, all the tension, the dryness, the inflammation, the muscle weakness just ruins the voice. Sometimes, when I have a good voice day I can’t record because I end up crying happy tears just for having a voice that day.
Madelleine, I'm in such awe and heartfelt admiration of how you've birthed your music, I'll pre-save and hear more later. Your voice is spiritual. Thank you for taking more of your energy and time to share how you created the album. Inspiring and impressive are such small words for such an incredible achievement. Warm wishes of congratulations, and a BIG BRAVO!!
This post makes me so happy. Congratulations! Well done! You sound beautiful and what a wonderful example you have provided for NOT fighting for your limitations. 🫶
Thank you so much for your beautiful music and your generosity of spirit for us in the ME community. Your patience and persistence in creating your music and waiting for your voice is so so so helpful. I'm part-way through a watercolor. I've had to set it aside for days and days. Great way to overthink something as spontaneous as watercolor! I also play music and sing and still have to learn "the hard way" that even when I am doing something that nourishes my spirit it can still cause a crash. Thank you for sharing, and for the meditations! 🙏
Jeg drømmer om at give en digtsamling til pårørende. For lige så hurtigt som man kan blive syg, lige så hurtigt kan man blive pårørende. Og da det kke er noget vi taler om, kan det blive en meget ensom rejse. Derfor drømmer jeg om, at være talerør for pårørende og være en støtte i en svær situation som pårørende.
It's amazing and inspiring to read how you've adapted and accommodated yourself to create an album like this. I've pre-saved Salem and can't wait to see/hear what comes next!
Thank you. You have helped me understand some of my emotions. I'm trying to get stronger, and do more of what brings me joy, sewing, painting, gardening but find it overwhelming. I pray you continue to have the grit to create. Go girl.
Thank you so much, and I pray for the same thing too. It is incredibly overwhelming to create when sick. I so hope you find a way to do more of what brings you joy ❤️
I was just thinking of you this past week and hoping you were ok. Bandcamp let me purchase the Salem single — its beautiful and I am so pleased to support your creative work. What a gift you are (even when not creating). Thank you.
Hmmm that’s odd. You could purchase the entire song? It’s not supposed to until the 12th May. But great! And thank you!
Its listed as 12 March in Bandcamp.
So odd, on my end it says it will be released 12th May. Oh well. Glad you purchased it and liked it!
Congrats on the album. This is such a powerful piece, which I would love to share with others. May I cross-post to Create Me Free readers?
Thank you! And absolutely! Do you need anything from me to cross-post? Let me know 🌸
Wonderful! I don’t need anything from you and I’ll cross-post soon. Thanks for letting me share with my readers!
Thank you for sharing!
This is awesome, that you accomplished all this! Creativity is so important.
I have EDS, which means I'm wheelchair dependent, and in pain pretty much all day, every day. Always tired. Like you, I'm a singer, and I hate those days when I just can't sing. I think few people realise how much singing actually asks from the body. All the muscles that have to work exactly right. Your breath support, your posture... it all matters so much.
Then there's my writing, which has honestly saved my life. Because writing helps me process what's going on in my head. All the thoughts, the doubts, the sadness, the anger... it all finds an outlet in writing.
I sooo hear you! Creativity saves lives. And gosh, singing requires so much from the body. I too hate those (often very long) periods where I can’t produce a proper sound even. I wish we could sing all the time!
Congratulations!!!!🥳🥳🥳 This is very exciting!! I just pre-ordered Salem on apple music - I love your voice: it’s beautiful y haunting. I’m super-happy your voice and songs are going to be out in the world soon!!
I’m a poet and it takes me a long time to write a poem, from first draft through many revisions into a place where I’m happy with it. I find revising the hardest because my brain has to be functioning at a level where I can analyze. Sometimes it takes years. I try to write one line a day to keep me tethered to poetry y creativity. But can wait months to be ready to revise. Luckily, lately I’ve been able to do revision work early in the morning. Then much later in the day I may try to make the changes in Word on my computer, which is malfunctioning so doesn’t always work but can’t afford a new one.
Writing y being creative brings me joy y purpose. It really increases my quality of life. It’s just a matter of trying to figure out how to do it given our health y energy limitations.
Much love 💕
Yay thank you so much for pre-saving! And thank you for sharing! I found writing lyrics easier when I had mild/moderate ME. Now there’s just a lot of emptiness. I use mornings too to revise, it’s like my brain is clearer. And yes, creativity really does give us quality of life. It sucks that we are so limited.
So incredibly impressed, Madelleine, by how you shepherd yourself quietly and insistently toward your best creativity. Congratulations on the release of your music! I love your voice. And I know how ME/CFS can mess with a voice. Before CFS I was toying with the idea of being a voice professional, but after I recovered, and every other part of me was as healthy or better than before, my voice didn't have the juice it had once had. Luckily other directions in life were opening up so it wasn't a huge loss. But to this day I have to be careful in how I record my podcasts and audiobooks. I have to have a certain amount of rest, place the voice a certain way, do short sessions...you know the drill. My limit is 30 minutes. And here you are, figuring out how to make magic one line at a time! I'm grateful for your dedication to yourself. Huge congratulations on making your music magic available to the world! Many blessings to you.
Thank you so much for sharing this. And yup, I so know the drill. Thankfully I’ve had great voice teachers who have helped me out technically, but still, all the tension, the dryness, the inflammation, the muscle weakness just ruins the voice. Sometimes, when I have a good voice day I can’t record because I end up crying happy tears just for having a voice that day.
I can imagine, and I get it. ❤️
Madelleine, I'm in such awe and heartfelt admiration of how you've birthed your music, I'll pre-save and hear more later. Your voice is spiritual. Thank you for taking more of your energy and time to share how you created the album. Inspiring and impressive are such small words for such an incredible achievement. Warm wishes of congratulations, and a BIG BRAVO!!
Thank you so much Victoria, that means so much ❤️
This 8 yr bedbound girl is amazed at your incredible achievement. Congratulations!
Thank you!
What an amazing achievement! Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
Thank you for receiving it 🌸❤️
Your voice... WOW 💖
I am in awe of you. You are a GODDESS!
I am SO PROUD of and for you (I hope that's OK to say) 💖
That’s totally OK to say, thank you so much! ❤️🌸
Huge congratulations on your forthcoming album, Madelleine!
And thank you for generously sharing some of your creative process with us and the beautiful snippet of Salem.
"My message is that creativity is vital for many of us and should be prioritised if at all possible." I believe this too.
Thank you so much! And yes, creativity is so important for many of us.
This post makes me so happy. Congratulations! Well done! You sound beautiful and what a wonderful example you have provided for NOT fighting for your limitations. 🫶
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your beautiful music and your generosity of spirit for us in the ME community. Your patience and persistence in creating your music and waiting for your voice is so so so helpful. I'm part-way through a watercolor. I've had to set it aside for days and days. Great way to overthink something as spontaneous as watercolor! I also play music and sing and still have to learn "the hard way" that even when I am doing something that nourishes my spirit it can still cause a crash. Thank you for sharing, and for the meditations! 🙏
Thank you so much! And yes, it’s something that a lot of people don’t understand: Doing stuff we love makes us crash too! It’s hideous.
Incredible! Your voice is outstanding 🤩
Love being a witness on your journey 😍
Trying to get it on preorder on Apple Music but I’m not sure how to do that, not savvy with these things. I’ll keep trying.
Thank you so much! Do you have an Apple Music account? Or an iTunes account?
It’s a family account for Apple Music - when I go in I see your album but no option to pre order?
Ah ok, hmmm.. that’s odd.
Jeg drømmer om at give en digtsamling til pårørende. For lige så hurtigt som man kan blive syg, lige så hurtigt kan man blive pårørende. Og da det kke er noget vi taler om, kan det blive en meget ensom rejse. Derfor drømmer jeg om, at være talerør for pårørende og være en støtte i en svær situation som pårørende.
Ååh ja, det er så sandt! Mine forældre (som er mine plejere) er også voldsomt isolerede og oplever også stigma. Godt du vil være et talerør!
It's amazing and inspiring to read how you've adapted and accommodated yourself to create an album like this. I've pre-saved Salem and can't wait to see/hear what comes next!
Yay thank you for pre-saving 🙏 And thank you for your kind words 😊