PRESSING PLAY

The session isn't about wanting the past back. It is about recognising something from it that still exists inside the person you have become. Places, feelings and earlier versions of ourselves can remain strangely present long after we have physically left them behind.

The music moves gently between familiarity and distance. It doesn't try to recreate a particular time or take you back to a specific place. Instead, it allows those less defined memories to surface; the atmosphere of somewhere, the feeling of being younger, the sense of a life that was once completely ordinary.

There is nostalgia here, but it isn't sentimental. There is warmth alongside the knowledge that you cannot return to that version of yourself, and perhaps wouldn't want to.

The journal explores the personal connection behind the chapter. The music leaves the memory open enough for you to bring your own places, people and earlier versions of yourself with you.