About Lee and MeadowSong

My work with storytelling, personal psychology, and spirituality began early in life. Captivated by the poetic songwriting of artists such as Paul Simon, Don McLean, and the Indigo Girls, music was a medium through which I explored my inner world and the realms that I imagined lie beyond. Similarly, as a classically-trained pianist, my performances of works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff became a chance to share a personal stories that I could tell in no other way.

My professional life began with (and still includes) work as a music educator. In 2007, I took a job as a director of middle school and high school choirs and musical theatre. In this role, I guided the young people with whom I worked as they developed their own storytelling abilities and explored their personal identities and the roles they occupied in the world. Additionally, I mentored many young teachers as their careers were developing.

In 2016, my wife gave birth to our first son. This was the realization of a dream that I had held since a very young age. Elated by the arrival of this child, I was simultaneously becoming more and more disillusioned with and demoralized by my work in the public schools. The incongruence between my personal values and those of the system I had been serving led to substantial psychological stress, which in turn led to a decline in my physical health. In 2018, I quit my job in the schools and we moved our young family to be closer to our son’s aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

Feeling as though I was failing – professionally, domestically, and personally – I began the work of putting myself back together again, a process that would take years of intentional effort, intense emotional courage, and plenty of support from family. One year after we moved, I was offered a great full-time job with a music education nonprofit, and we found a house suitable for our growing family. Still though, I wrestled with an underlying feeling that some beautiful and powerful part of myself – a part that my family and professional work desperately needed – was asleep, and I didn’t know how to wake it up. 

Then I came across the fields of depth/archetypal psychology and applied mythology. Over years of independent study – combined with regular psychoanalysis (both personal and professional) and lots of practical experimentation – I developed a depth of knowledge, a robust worldview, and a set of practices that completely changed the way I experienced Life and showed up in the lives of others. My creative practice exploded and I had way more energy and love to offer the people in my life.

I now teach what I still practice myself – helping parents, teachers, and business leaders reclaim a connection with their deep and creative Self, transforming the survivalist narratives associated with modern adulthood into a life of inner vitality and abundance.