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The Feeling in the Room
There are moments that fold time. Last week I was in correspondence with Vivian — one of the four founding musicians who will record with Acoustic Healing this May at New Dawn Studios in Monterey. Vivian is a retired oncology nurse with over 40 years of clinical experience. She is also a Certified Clinical Musician (CCM) since 2014, having devoted herself to the healing practice of harp after a career spent at the bedsides of the seriously ill. We were simply working out the
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Music in Healthcare - A Stop in Aurora — and a Question Worth Sitting With
April 22, 2026 Last weekend I flew into Denver for a family visit to Fort Collins. But I had something else planned for the first two hours: a quick Acoustic Healing outreach stop in Aurora before making the drive north. I'd looked up the hospitals in the area ahead of time. What I found was striking: just one concentrated cluster of hospital and healthcare campuses in Aurora takes up 0.9 square miles — and that's only one part of a much larger healthcare footprint spread thr
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Apr 221 min read
Where This Began
Every company has an origin story. This is ours. Acoustic Healing was founded in memory of a woman named Becca. Becca was our founder David Villareal's daughter-in-law. She was a mother, full of life. And when cancer changed everything for her and for the family around her, it set something in motion that no one could have predicted. David recently described the moment he understood that connection more clearly than ever: "Last night I watched the movie IF with my family — a
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Apr 142 min read
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