Letting Go: A Music Therapy Journey Through the Five Stages of Grief
Tone: C, Ab, Eb, Db. A full orchestral journey through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Inspired by a request from an ALS foundation and shaped by the composer’s own experience of losing a family member to ALS, the piece was created to walk with the listener through each stage rather than skip ahead to resolution. Created in consultation with Gail Lynn, Harmonic Egg® Inventor.
Composed by Jeremy Thompson
Instruments: Grand Piano, Solo Violin, Violin, Viola, Solo Cello, Cello, Double Bass, Male Choir, Female Choir, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Contrabass Tuba, Solo Flute, Solo Oboe, Solo English Horn, Bass Clarinet, Gong, Orchestral Chime, Celeste, Timpani, Triangle, Crystal Bowl, Singing Bowl, Ethereal Female Vocal Sample, Cinematic Sound Design Texture, Cinematic Sub Bass, Djembe, Hand Drum
Supports: Processing Grief, Neutralize Viruses, Systemic Problems, Moving Through the Five Stages, Emotional Release, Nervous System Regulation
Preview
Grief has a way of showing up uninvited, weeks or months after everyone else has stopped checking in.
You’re supposed to be fine by now. Or at least that’s what it can feel like.
But grief was never supposed to move in a straight line, and the parts of you still stuck in denial, or anger, or bargaining, haven’t gone anywhere. They’re just waiting for permission to be felt.
What if you didn’t have to carry each of those stages alone, and what if a single piece of music could walk through all five of them with you, instead of asking you to skip straight to acceptance before you’re ready?
Are you ready to discover what it feels like to finally have company in the parts of grief no one else wants to sit with?
Letting Go: A Journey Through Grief
Grief doesn’t move in a straight line. It circles back, stalls out, surges without warning, and refuses to follow whatever timeline you thought you were supposed to be on. Most healing music tries to skip past that and go straight to peaceful. This one doesn’t.
Letting Go was composed to walk through the five stages of grief with you, not around them.
Music Composed by: Jeremy Thompson, created in consultation with Gail Lynn, Harmonic Egg® Inventor.
What This Track Is Designed To Support
This piece takes the listener on a musical journey through the five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, giving each stage its own space rather than rushing toward resolution. It’s built for the actual shape of loss, not a simplified version of it.
This piece supports: processing grief, moving through the five stages, emotional release, and nervous system regulation during loss.
Why WAV, Not MP3
This file is delivered in uncompressed .WAV format. Not MP3. MP3 compression strips away vital sonic information, degrading the precision of the original composition. A piece built to move through five distinct emotional stages depends on subtle shifts in tone and texture between each one, and that subtlety is exactly what gets lost first in compression.
You may find Harmonic Egg® music elsewhere online in MP3 format, on Amazon or similar platforms. Those are not sold or supported by Harmonic Egg®, and they do not reflect the quality or integrity of the official recordings. If it is not delivered as an uncompressed file, it is not the real experience.
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About the Composer
Jeremy Thompson spent roughly 15 years in the music business as a full-time composer, sound designer, and voice actor. He scored the feature-length documentary “Keep a Light in Your Window,” the life story of Bruce “Daddy Bruce” Randolph, and worked on hundreds of projects during his career. Jeremy is also the creator, host, and composer for the podcast “The Galactically Incapable,” which he began in 2024.
In 2021, Jeremy transitioned into a career in law enforcement, a field that made self care, stress management, and healing personal rather than theoretical. He continues to use his composing and sound design skills both as his own outlet and as a way to help others, staying rooted in his musical background. Jeremy lives in Colorado with his wife, two dogs, three cats, and two horses.
Getting the Most From This File
Your download links for the WAV file and printable Song Notes arrive right after checkout. Save the file to your computer first, then to Google Drive or iCloud, so it’s there on hard days, not just the day you bought it.
The Song Notes map each stage of the piece to specific instruments, chakra focus, and color frequencies, so if you’re moving through your own version of these five stages, you can follow where the music is taking you and why.
How to Sit With This One
Letting Go isn’t background music. It asks for space, ideally somewhere private, where you don’t have to hold it together for anyone else while you listen.
- A quiet room, alone, with permission to feel whatever comes up
- Before or after a memorial, anniversary, or difficult date
- During grief counseling or a support group session
- Any moment you need company in something that otherwise feels isolating
What This Piece May Offer
Grief doesn’t resolve on command, and this track doesn’t try to force it to. What it offers instead is company through each stage, so none of them have to be carried alone.
- Permission to feel each stage fully instead of rushing past it
- A nervous system that can hold grief without shutting down
- A sense of accompaniment during a process that often feels isolating
- Movement toward acceptance, at whatever pace that actually takes
This isn’t about getting over loss faster. It’s about not having to move through it alone.
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Disclaimer: This music is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. This music is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It may be hazardous to operate a vehicle or heavy machinery while listening to this music.
