These Lullabies for Adults Are Everything Our Hearts Need Right Now

We women, especially us moms, don’t always make intentional restorative spaces for ourselves. We always remember something else that needs to get done, or we just don’t have the energy to think of something restorative and truly peaceful to do so we just end up on our phones or on Netflix. There’s a constant hum in the background of our minds, a playlist that loops over and over. It sounds something like, “Did I do X? Did I finish Y? What about A,B,C, and D?”

But what if we carved out time to just breathe, to be still and calm, to press pause on that playlist and give our hearts a minute to refill? What if we made a pocket of peace for ourselves in the middle of the day during the kids’ naps or in the evening once we’ve closed our work computers for the day? Maybe it’s just 10 minutes here and 15 minutes there. Maybe it looks like infusing peace into the mundane moments of folding laundry or cooking dinner. It doesn’t have to be something elaborate. Just something simple, something that doesn’t take a lot of prep time.

Enter JJ Heller.

JJ Heller has been making music for over 17 years. Her mission is to make “songs of peace for the child inside all of us.” Songs of peace — what a simple way to infuse calm into a chaotic day. Music has the power to soothe us, calm us, even…