Behind The Glass With Charlotte Eriksson

Richard Walters has had songs in TV Shows like Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami and many more, he has released several albums and is also writing for other artists such as Gabrielle Aplin, Declan J. Donovan and Joe Henry. I was so excited to get to talk to Richard about his inspiring journey as a songwriter, and I really hope you all will enjoy getting to know him a bit in this episode. You can find all his links to socials and music at: www.richardwaltersmusic.co.uk ------------- Come follow me here! ✧ Website: www.TheGlassChildOfficial.com ✧ Merch, books & CDs: www.theglasschild.bigcartel.com ✧ Email newsletter: eepurl.com/t9GTr ✧ Instagram: www.instagram.com/justaglasschild ✧ Tumblr: www.theglasschild.tumblr.com ✧ Facebook: www.facebook.com/theglasschild ✧ Twitter: www.twitter.com/justaglasschild ✧ Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theglasschild Music in this episode: Intro by Chillhop Last song: 'interlude: i was never here' by The Glass Child >> https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZZh

In this episode I'm talking to the super lovely Sarah P about mental health, her project "Erase Restart" that aims to educate and break the stigma surrounding mental health, songwriting and how creativity and journaling can work as self-care tools. You can find all Sarah's music, projects and links at: - www.sarahpofficial.com - www.instagram.com/sarahpofficial ------------- Come follow me here! ✧ Website: www.TheGlassChildOfficial.com ✧ Merch, books & CDs: www.theglasschild.bigcartel.com ✧ Email newsletter: eepurl.com/t9GTr ✧ Instagram: www.instagram.com/justaglasschild ✧ Tumblr: www.theglasschild.tumblr.com ✧ Facebook: www.facebook.com/theglasschild ✧ Twitter: www.twitter.com/justaglasschild ✧ Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theglasschild Music by Chillhop

In this episode I'm chatting to singer, songwriter and entrepreneur Nick Howard! Nick has had such an inspiring career and I loved talking to him about all his different projects. He won The Voice in Germany 2012, has toured with crazy big artists like Gavin Degraw, Train and Jack Johnson, started his own music festival in Cologne called Nomad Fest, and even started his own booking site for house concerts! Click play and get inspired :) Go say hi to Nick and tell him that you enjoyed listening to the episode! Website: https://www.nickhowardmusic.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickhowardmusic Instagram: http://instagram.com/nickhowardmusic NOMAD FEST in Cologne: http://www.nomadmusicfestival.com ------------- Come follow me here! ✧ Website: www.TheGlassChildOfficial.com ✧ Merch, books & CDs: www.theglasschild.bigcartel.com ✧ Email newsletter: eepurl.com/t9GTr ✧ Instagram: www.instagram.com/justaglasschild ✧ Tumblr: www.theglasschild.tumblr.com ✧ Facebook: www.facebook.com/theglasschild ✧ Twitter: www.

In this week's interview episode I'm talking to one of my personal inspirations! Singer, songwriter, composer and music entrepreneur Terra Naomi. Terra has an amazing story as an artist, being one of the very first musicians to blow up on Youtube, signing a major label record deal, releasing music independently and composing music for film and TV. Please go support her on Patreon and keep your eyes open for new music! www.Patreon.com/TerraNaomi

The year I changed my own character. The year I stopped fleeing. The year I took responsibility of my own becoming. Of my own happening. Of my own success and happiness, home and surroundings. The year I learned how to quit being myself, and instead design a new self, deliberately, consciously, maturely. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The year my heart broke, quietly dying. The year the vision I’ve had for a peaceful future was erased and gone, the house I thought I was living in was thrown up in the air during the calmest summer day and I waved my arms screaming for someone to save me but this was the year I learned to depend on myself. On my own ability to get by, when I think I can’t, and this was the year I became my own saviour. The year I built my own home. From ground up. A foundation to stand on. A stronger character. A loving heart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Because when a heart gets broken, it’s wide open. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When a heart gets broken, it’s wide open to take in and give out. To learn and to grow, stronger and wiser, and an o

In this episode I'm hanging out with music writer and journalist Brandon Enyeart of Lemonade Magazine! We're chatting all things music, writing and what it's like to interview real cool peep Read Lemonade Magazine here: www.lemonademagazine.net Follow Brandon on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/Brandon_E Come follow me here! ✧ Website: www.TheGlassChildOfficial.com ✧ Merch, books & CDs: www.theglasschild.bigcartel.com ✧ Email newsletter: eepurl.com/t9GTr ✧ Instagram: www.instagram.com/justaglasschild ✧ Tumblr: www.theglasschild.tumblr.com ✧ Facebook: www.facebook.com/theglasschild ✧ Twitter: www.twitter.com/justaglasschild ✧ Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theglasschild And you can find my music here: ✧ SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/playlist/57f2cw9YAsMGtzUFf4DLWi ✧ iTunes: itunes.apple.com/album/id12153537…?ls=1&app=itunes ✧ Google Play: bit.ly/2o9mK5F ✧ Soundcloud: @TheGlassChild ✧ Bandcamp: www.TheGlassChild.bandcamp.com ✧ Youtube: www.Youtube.com/aglasschild *** *** *** *** Music used in the

I'm so excited to kick off a new chapter of my little podcast, starting today with the very first interview I've ever done!! I'm chatting to the super talented songwriter James Walker about all things music

I will leave the catastrophe blank for you to fill, and instead tell you that it will get better, in a while, and you will be well again, though you can’t see it now, and you will travel again and eat again and your muscles will grow stronger, again. You will run and laugh and sing and one day you will meet someone who makes your heart beat with no pattern again, and you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love, but you must not grow up, must not act wise when it comes to love. You must stay foolish and fall for every heart will beat in different ways together with yours and love is not meant to be compared, only enjoyed, and suffered, and remembered. So you will meet many ‘someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must not close the door, and please don’t hide, because if you ask me about hurt and love I will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only love makes it worth while. Only love can c

For me, having a minimalism lifestyle means having less and doing less in order to have more time, space and energy for the things that really truly matter to me. Keeping things simple and minimal means, for me, to focus only on the essentials, the things of value, and not get caught up in distractions and worries. It helps me free myself from overwhelm, stress, find clarity and straighten out my priorities. My personal priorities in life are: health, passion, growth, location independence, art and community. What are yours? Here is a super simple exercise to get us started: List maybe 5 to 7 things that you value in life, write them down on your phone or on a piece of paper, or just keep them in your head. Now, go through a normal day in your life, how you spend it, what you’re doing, the places you go, the people you interact with. How many of those things in your daily life align with your values? Do they support your values of what’s important in life? Do they help you live like you would like to live?

"Finding your people" from my book "Another Vagabond Lost To Love ✦ "I’m scared because I want to reach people, make them feel and relate and know that they are not alone in anything because I am here and I hear you and I’ve felt it too. Just like those words by those authors that I read, and those songs by those bands that I listen to let me know that I am not alone, and belonging is everything. Belonging changes everything. So I’m scared and nervous, because the aim to reach those rare and few people who will understand and listen are out there, I know it, but to get to them I need to pass thousands of others. Thousands of others who won’t understand. Who won’t relate or feel or like what I say and what I do or who I am, and they are never too busy to let me know that they don’t like what they hear or what they see or who I am and so I’m scared. Because this album is not just an album to throw words on or dissect——it’s everything I came to see and feel and know and be the last years, and that’s why I

I wake up some mornings just feeling... frail. Like, please be careful, go slow, don’t touch me too rough, speak gently. It happens after worried nights, reliving things from the past or dreaming things I don’t wish to happen and I wake up feeling unrested and sore. Like I’ve just been pushed around between two thorny edges and my mind is as wounded as my body and the sky is as fragile as me, able to break into tears any moment. I used to run out in a worried state of anxiety, not knowing where to go with my body these days, not knowing how to drown out the strange unrest in my chest and I used to run run run until it felt better, which it rarely did, until the day was done and I could leave it behind and move on. But I’m learning to be gentle with myself. To treat me with the same care I wish others to do so I don’t push, I don’t force. I make myself something warm to drink, I sit down in a sunny spot, feeling the warmth like a warm blanket. I read something comforting, something about my place in the unive

A few years ago I lived lonesome on the road in England. I owned nothing more than my guitar, a few belongings and my dream of becoming a songwriter. The constant worry, the stress, the loneliness and the sadness built up a chronic anxiety that would control me for years to come. It wasn't until I discovered philosophy, meditation, the yogic practice and holistic health tools that I learned how to still my own mind. Nowadays, I start every day just sitting on the ground. Breathing, exploring how I feel today. Listening, waking myself up gently. I find that when I do this, I can then go out and meet the world from a place of stability, calm, certainty about who I am and who I want to be, rather than just anxiously trying to catch up with the day and the world. Today I'm guiding you through a 10 min meditation, designed to calm and still anxious and worried minds. If you've never tried meditation before, just give it a shot! Surrender to my voice for just 10min, and the worst thing that can happen is that yo

Growing up is a wonderful thing. Tracing the years back, looking at myself like someone else, someone different. I was angry and anxious, wanting to prove the whole world wrong, prove myself wrong, prove that I could be anything I wanted to be and I was gonna show them all. I would prove them all wrong. I was driven by external forces, wanting everyone to see me like this and think of me like that. I careful planned my words, my clothes, my songs so that the world would see me from the right angle. It’s different now. I’m different now. I don’t spin the chair anymore. I rest peacefully with both eyes steady, listening and caring. I don’t rush through the rain with a rucksack, but instead I say “let’s have another coffee, tell me one more story” and I wait out the rain. I’m no longer driven by external forces, but internal ones. I no longer care what the world sees me as. Instead I care about what I think of myself. How I feel, here, now, hands on my heart. Am I peaceful? Am I calm? Am I content? Lonely? Wis

And what am I? I’m forever stuck in a nonexistent place where no time passes and I do so much and learn so much but I don’t grow. I’m still teenage me wanting more. Wanting less. Wanting anything and everything and I think I should grow up now. Grow out of childish anxiety and sorrows for all things past and everyone has moved on from schools and neighbourhoods and I moved first and swore the loudest on never coming back but now I dream about all things past. Going back. How do you transition from being a lost teenager, to one of those calm and serene souls of integrity and certainty? Because that’s what I must do, now, soon. Do others feel left behind too, or is it just me? Like the train left with everyone on it and I’m still standing on the platform trying to decide if I should watch the sky for another hour or go change my ticket. Maybe sometimes you need to just close your eyes and jump on the train without feeling ready, and grow your steady breath on the way. I think sometimes you don’t know how much y

In this episode I'm sharing 5 of my favorite writers + talk about how they have influenced me as a writer and person. I have linked and listed all the books, poems and video I'm mentioning in this episode in the show notes on my website, you can find them here: www.CharlotteEriksson.com/behindtheglass14 My brand new book "Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself" is out!!! it's available as both physical paperback and as a digital ebook, and you can find it on Amazon or get yourself a signed copy from my store that I will personally sign and send to you together with some goodies. ✦ Signed copies, worldwide shipping: www.TheGlassChild.bigcartel.com ✦ Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2lQDGdy ✦ Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2MI5SL8 ✧ Read more about the book here: www.CharlotteEriksson.com/newbook

You will find yourself wanting to leave and go home at the same time, and there is nothing you can do about this. You will find yourself feeling too large for your body, and at the same time find yourself with a body that feels too large for you, and there is nothing you can do about this. You will find yourself with a beautiful boy and you will not want to stay in that room, with him, even though there is nothing more you can ask for in another human being, and there is nothing you can do about this. There is a constellation in the sky that was created the very second you were born, because no one and nothing was in the exact same position between the moon and the stars at the time of your birth, and this is your place in the universe. This is your spot to stand up tall because no one else was made for it, no one could have been, and neither will anyone else ever be made for it, and so you will just have to stay. You don’t want to. I know. You want to inhabit others’ successes and luck and they’re smiling a

There is so much I don’t have. I fall into jealousy, watching other people have their ways, climb the ladder, build fancy lives in fancy houses with fancy cars -- and I rarely see what I do have, only what others have that I don’t. And I think it’s so easy to work and work and actually have the life you once dreamt for yourself but when you reach it, you’re too busy looking at others, looking at future you, looking over the shoulder, so you don’t even notice. I have so very simple dreams, although they’re large, and I have found just a few things that make me feel calm and safe, happy to just be around. I tried to build my life on those things and exclude the rest. I don’t have the house and the job, the car and the yearly holiday to Spain, but I do have freedom. I wanted freedom, in all forms, and I fought with all my power to build a life I wanted to wake up to. All my life I felt stuck in chains, by everything and everyone but then I found these few things that made me feel safe and calm and I ran with it.

Get your name in my new book! Everyone who enters my Patreon on the $4 level will get their name in my new book on an official thank you page. Go to: www.Patreon.com/TheGlassChild to read more ♡ ----- This is a writing from my new, forthcoming book "Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself"

The craftsmen make it seem so simple. The writer presents his words as if they came as natural as a breath. I put my headphones on and the songs with the sounds and atmospheric layers spread wide as if it just happened out of natural euphoria in the flick of a second and this is the danger with art. The art is not the art-form itself, but the way the artist makes something complicated feel uncomplicated; something messy feel intact; something weak feel beautiful. I am 26 and I am learning what it means to be an artist, for I am not an artist, because it takes life and a life lived well, to the limit, to see the patterns in storms, but I am 26 and I am learning. I am learning shame and solitude, forgiveness and goodbyes. I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and t

A spoken poetry piece from my book "Another Vagabond Lost To Love" ♡ "I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleansing me. I’m the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I’m the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I’ve made of myself." Music used in this episode: - Sister by The Glass Child: https://open.spotify.com/track/2aKTgMgGCvSh6yHO6QaJFx