Music is an escape. In my personal experience, music has helped me through hard times, losses, and even just a hard day. Music has always been a way for me to express how I feel, even when I felt like I didn’t have a voice. For the longest time, friends weren’t enough. I needed something to explore and learn more about. This is when I picked up an old pair of headphones, my parents’ old iPod, and started listening. I got really interested in 80’s and 90’s rock and rap. This led me down a rabbit hole of music. This love of music for me didn’t stop either. In the 5th grade, I joined the band. Outside of school, I would play my trumpet till the sun rose the next day. This newfound way to interpret and appreciate musicians only made this sort of addiction to music worse. But at the end of the day, it got me through every up and down. Now, you might ask, what does this have to do with music therapy? Well, this is my personal experience. Music therapy has been an actual resource since 1789, but music has been used for healing since as early as the Bible ages. In I Samuel, David played the lyre to King Saul so he would feel better. This is music therapy. David played music in a way to relieve someone of their stress and their health. That’s just the earliest account of music therapy that we have, but we have proof of flutes made from ivory from over 43,000 years ago. This just goes to show how long music has been developing and how long it has affected us as humans. For all we know, music could have been used therapeutically ten thousand years ago.