PCPS Light-Listen To Your Meds: Why Music is Medicine, and Our Reset Playlists

About this episode

The episode discusses how music from one's youth can help alleviate anxiety and shares personal playlists for relaxation.

Next time you’re feeling overwhelmed or anxious, try listening to your favorite music from your adolescence! Today we’re talking about how the music of our youth can act like a weighted blanket and is proven to help you CALM THE EFF DOWN. Then we’re sharing our own “cortisol cleanse” playlists with you (NO JUDGMENT!) and telling you why we go to artists like Prince, the Carpenters, Wham!, and Phil Collins as easily (and as often) as we do our medicine cabinets. Subscribe to our favorite magazine and get 83% off just by being a PCPS listener. Click here for a year of Remind Magazine for only $12. Shop our link at bookshop.org to support independent bookstores and the PCPS. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram , Facebook an TikTok Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon . Check all the extra perks you get here . Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here Send us an email at hello@poppreservationists.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

People in this episode

Host: Pop Culture Preservation Society

Topics covered

• music therapy
• nostalgia
• mental health
• playlists
• music as medicine

Keywords

• music
• anxiety
• nostalgia
• playlists
• mental health
• cortisol cleanse
• music therapy

Sponsors

Remind Magazine

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PCPS

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