Burnout.

We always talk about it, but only give lip service on what truly causes it.

Until I talked to today's guest, Dr Tracy Qian, I never considered that it could be classified as a "psychological injury," as in, you need to allow yourself to recover from it just like a physical injury

I also didn't even consider until our conversation the fact that burnout (and what Dr Qian calls "musical trauma") has many different causes, ranging from performance anxiety, to abusive teacher-pupil relationships.

We talk about her research studying the experiences of other musicians who have experienced musical trauma (28/32 injured musicians studied didn't know of any resources at the start of their injury!)

And for the first time on TTP, we talk about organist health, and how to stay physically healthy for the demanding instrument that the organ is.

As an added but critical bonus, we also talk about hearing health, both for organists and for all musicians in general.

And that is where I think you will learn some things that are hard to hear (no pun intended).