THE GLASS CHILD

CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

 

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Songwriter.  Author.  Dreamer. Wanderer.

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    PODCAST

    Behind The Glass

    with Charlotte Eriksson

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    Songwriter and author Charlotte Eriksson -- The Glass Child -- lets you in behind the glass. Raw and honest conversations with inspiring people, spoken word essays and journals exploring the subjects of growing up, change, loneliness, living as a nomad, missing people, loving people, creativity and fighting for a dream. How to live with uncertainty. What is home? What is anxiety? What is happiness?

    SHOW NOTES

    EP1: Growing up takes time & effort
    EP2: Letter To Younger Me
    EP3: The Sweetest Rain [Spoken Poetry]
    EP4: The search for a home ..
    EP5: There's No Right Way To Say Goodbye [Spoken Poetry]
    EP6: Q&A Episode
    EP7: A thing of beauty is a joy forever
    EP8: On Change & New Beginnings
    EP9: It's the beating of my heart [Spoken Poetry]
    EP 10: The Artist's Way
    EP 11: Move with your own rhythm
    EP 12: It could all be so simple
    EP 13: Your Place In The Universe
    EP 14: My Favorite Writers
    EP 20: MINIMALISM
    EP 22: Songwriter James Walker
    EP 23: Music Journalist Brandon Enyeart
    EP 24: 2018, The Year I Changed My Own Character
    EP 25: Terra Naomi [Singer/Songwriter]
    EP 26: Nick Howard [Singer/Songwriter]
    EP 27: Sarah P [Mental Health Advocate + Songwriter]
    EP 28: Richard Walters [Singer/Songwriter]
    EP 29: Time Heals All Wounds
    EP 30: Q&A Episode: Writing Hacks, Social Media, Swedish music.
    EP 31: NEW ERA
    EP 32: Nate Maingard [Modern Troubadour + Songwriter]
    EP 33: How to find clarity every morning
    EP 34: Guided Meditation to Release & Let Go
    EP 35: I'm Still on My Way [Spoken Word]
    EP 36: All things Meditation with Kelly Smith from YogaForYou.com
    EP 37: Things I Learned in 2019
    EP 46: Are you pleasing people, or serving people?
    EP 47: Losing people you love
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    Booking & PR: lisa@brokenglassrecords.se

     

    I am currently taking bookings for solo shows, house concerts, workshops and speaking engagements.

     

    Interested in hosting a house concert? Just write to me and we'll plan it together!

     

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      5am
      again,
      drunk on someone else’s love,
      or couch,
      and I’ve never felt more at home.

      ​

      I fled myself,
      from the life I’ve built
      because I’ve been inhabiting routines I don’t want to stand for.

      Inhabiting skin I’d rather shed
      but still took on
      like a soldier serving his country,
      for that’s what they told me to do.
      But I was not
      strong
      or wise,
      but young and foolish,
      for what is this thing? Trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance,

      and I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
      with clean blood
      and organised drawers.
      I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
      at night when no one else is alive,
      or awake,
      however you choose to see it,
      and I live in my own flames.
      Sometimes burning too bright and too wild
      to make things last 
      or handle
      myself or anyone else
      and so I run.
      Run run run,
      far and wide
      until my bones ache and lungs split
      and it feels good.
      Hear that, people? It feels good,
      because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
      and I wish to do with it exactly as I please,
      and living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times,

      because I never volunteered to take this on.

      The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,
      the forever on going task of explaining this and that,
      and why I don’t want to look like this and
      be like that
      but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.
      If this is the place I’ve been given, I’m sure as hell gonna make this work.

      ​

      So I fled the me that was never really me and I’m on my way. To newer lands and uncleaned streets
      for I’ve had enough of childish safety in comfort.
      Enough of all telling me to look and do, like this and that,

      and I never meant to please anyone but myself
      and you can call me selfish,
      throw words like knives in the dark but I will not listen,
      for not listening to sharp words brought me to where I am today
      and I believe in the path I’ve been given. If my only task in this life is to walk it,
      I surely will walk it
      prouder than anyone else.

      ​

      If this is the path I’ve been given, I will walk it
      prouder than anyone else,
      for no one else can.

      ​

      // from my book You’re Doing Just Fine ☾

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