text: Today our expert guest is Bill Protzmann, whose volunteer work includes board positions with Guitars for Vets and the San Diego Veterans Coalition. He has been instrumental in connecting thousands of military service members and veterans with honor tickets to the largest healing organization involving music. You can read his articles online in places like Fox News and Psychology Today. For his foundational work establishing music as self care, he received an Inspiring Hope Award of Excellence from the National Council for Behavioral Health.
  Bill’s behavioral healthcare began when he started playing music. His mom started him off with piano lessons very early, and he found that he was giving himself a place of peace and being okay with emotions from that day.
  The ethos of bringing music to people in unusual situations opened him up to the idea that music could help people who are dealing with behavioral issues.
  Sound and rhythm are fundamental to who we are. We are all set up to respond well to sound, and it’s an amazing skill that we have to trigger certain functions. Sound and music can activate our lizard brains and really reach us in a way that our cerebral cortex won’t allow.