Music has always been more than background noise for me; it has been a place where something deeper shifts. I vividly remember in the 2010s being just a guy following jam bands up and down the East Coast, standing in crowds with my closest friends and feeling something I could not quite name at the time. Now, as a therapist, I understand those experiences through an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed lens and how those experiences shaped my sense of self. What I understan