Celestial Sound Bites: April 2026 Edition

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Students Experience Celestial Sounds for Brain Health and Awareness

Thank you to The Brain Center of Green Bay for their wonderful field trip day March 18 for New Leaf Prep Academy students (grades 4-8). I was honored to be one of three guest instructors for the event held at the STEM Center at UWGB. A great outing for the kids and an opportunity for me to connect with young people once again. They also had a therapy dog on site.

And here’s another wonderful piece to the puzzle – YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS to the Tip It Forward program helped make it possible! I created the Tip It Forward program to benefit people and organizations that cannot pay for my services or are in need of financial assistance.

With your help, I was able to offer my services for the day free of charge. Over sixty kids benefited from their gong demonstration and sound bath. Kids got to feel the vibrations of the gongs by holding their hands next to the gongs. They loved that! During our class, I taught about conscious breathing as a way to have control during overwhelm, brain entrainment to the sound waves and frequencies of the gongs, and the import of the brain for the body’s health and healing.

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Reading Options from Brenda’s Bookstore

Recently someone who must have been thoroughly exploring my website found the somewhat hidden link to Brenda’s Books! And I was delighted when she reached out wanting to buy Adulting 101 Coupons: Guided Conversations with Your Young Adult. She indicated that it looked like a good fit for her as she has a child preparing to graduate and leave home. I was quite grateful for her interest!

For those who know me only as a gong player (AKA therapeutic sound practitioner), you might be surprised to learn I am also a retired English teacher and life-long writer. In fact, from 2021-2022 I maintained a weekly blog called Life Cheat Sheets. Subsequently, I self-published six books stemming from those many many blogs. Each book is unique but they share a central theme – sharing what I’ve learned as I’ve navigated life’s many ups, downs, and lessons.

If any of these appeal to you, do let me know!

With a Grateful Heart

In entering into my world through the eyes of gratitude, I hope you experience more gratitude in your own life.

Reasons for Hope

In these pages I encourage you to be open to the potential for hope.  I challenge you to make empowering choices, while encouraging us all to change and alter the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.  

Lessons in Life School

Recognizing that you are a student in Life School makes living all just a little more interesting and perhaps even easier to become adaptable in a tumultuous world.

Riffs on Wisdom Teachings

This book seeks to share a small corner of what I have loved and learned through my own exploration of spiritual wisdom teachings. 

Adulting 101 Coupons: Guided Conversations with Your Young Adult

Using this guidebook, launch guided conversations between you and your son or daughter in the final months before they leave home. The book also contains three communication tips per chapter to enhance your parent-child communication skills.

Me Time: Self-Care in a Challenging World

One of my most popular offerings, the many tools shared and explained in Me Time nurture you and bring better balance to your mind, body, and soul. I offer a class called “Self-care Tips Everyone Can Use” based on this book.

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March Shout Outs

Shout out to the schools and organizations who shared the magic of sound with their communities. Appleton Area School District, a faithful partner for over four years. The Green Bay Brain Center’s Brain Awareness Fieldtrip event. HopeChats Community who added a sound bath to enhance their retreat centered around the theme Intention.

Shout out to all the care facilities who prioritized wellness using therapeutic sound! Celestial Sound thanks you! Brookview Meadows, Howard. What a joy to serve their senior living community once again after many months away. Dimensions Living, Green Bay. We had an especially large group which made it extra special. Bellevue Senior Living, Green Bay. We had a nice size group with several new participants curious about the gongs.

Shout out to our Birthday Rewards recipient for March 2026, Olga K. Join birthday rewards to win a chance for a fee-free Book Me celebration, a $50 value.

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Subscribe

If you’re not a Celestial Sound Bites subscriber and would like to be, simply go to CelestialSoundGB.com and click SUBSCRIBE when you see the pop up message. It’s free. I generally publish monthly. Other ways to stay connected are to join my weekly text message list by reaching out to 920-932-1471, and check out Celestial Sound events on Facebook or Instagram or catch my weekly Self-care Tips on YouTube. If you are wanting to listen to sample sound baths, check out my YouTube Channel. Peace, Brenda