08/31/2022
Many people ask me how I balance my life as a licensed therapist & my part-time professional musician career 🤷🏻♂️
This super fun & informative conversation with Rachel Moore answers most of your questions 🥳
Congrats on launching your brand new Beyond Artist's Block podcast & I’m incredibly honored to have been your very first guest 🙏☯️🎤
Thanks for checking it out & for sharing 🌟
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Surprise! Our first full episode is now live. We'd planned to start posting in September but couldn't wait to get this one out to you. Hope you enjoy the inaugural episode of Beyond Artist's Block!
Listen here: https://www.beyondartistsblock.com/blog/brian-zirngible-lmft-how-to-balance-being-a-performer-and-a-practitioner
Today's Guest: Brian Zirngible, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with a solo private practice in Burnsville, Minnesota. He is an actively working musician and performer based in the Twin Cities. His passion and specialty is helping other musicians and creative artists live more authentic and balanced lives. Brian's focus is on self-care, setting healthy boundaries, and turning pain into possibility. Clients find it helpful that he understands and is currently living with some of the unique challenges within the entertainment industry.
Colleague Ernesto Segismundo Jr., LMFT, says this about Brian: "He is, in my opinion, a blend between David Bowie and the modern-day psychoanalyst."
Show Topics
✅ How a teacher helped Brian overcome his frustration by saying: “You’re not quitting. We’re just starting over”
✅ What to do when clients attend a therapist’s performance
✅ Brian talks about his path to becoming a therapist and how he focused on working with artists and highly sensitive men
✅ Rachel discusses why "being in the audience" is an important part of creativity
✅ Brian and Rachel talk about boundaries and how to manage expectations as a performer and a therapist, as well as how the idea of boundaries may mean different things to different cultures
✅ Rachel recalls a time she paid dueling pianists to stop playing a song — it didn't go over as well as she'd hoped
✅ Brian offers this final advice to listeners: Be kind to yourself, especially now
Disclaimer
Beyond Artist's Block represents the opinions of its host and guests and is not meant as a substitute for therapy. It is for informational and educational purposes only. Please reach out to your healthcare provider with any specific questions you may have.
