A Quiet Alchemy: How Lyrics Became My Way of Honouring the Human Spirit

By Dr Helen Mursell | Lux Soren

I never set out to become a lyricist.

For years, words lived quietly inside me — not as poems or verses, but as emotional echoes, fragments of moments that stayed with me long after sessions ended or silence settled. As a clinical psychologist, I’ve spent over three decades walking beside people as they navigate the raw terrain of trauma, grief, identity, and healing. I’ve borne witness to some of the most tender, courageous, and complex parts of the human experience. And somewhere along the way, those stories began to sing.

The music didn’t arrive all at once. At first, it was just lines in a notebook — reflections of my own journey, and of the stories that moved through me as I sat with clients in the quiet spaces of therapy. But over time, those words took on rhythm and shape. They began to ask for melody. And so, with the help of AI-crafted music and vocals, I began to bring them to life.

The Lux Soren project was born from this alchemy — a merging of personal reflection and professional reverence. Each song is a tribute to the countless human moments I’ve had the honour to witness: the woman reclaiming her body after years of silence, the neurodivergent soul trying to make sense of a world too loud, the man still haunted by childhood’s long echo. These are not literal retellings, but emotional truths — lyrical companions to the shared longing for safety, connection, and a sense of home within ourselves.

For me, writing music is another form of listening. Of being with. Of honouring.

And though the songs are sung under the name Lux Soren, they carry the imprint of every quiet breakthrough and every brave breath I’ve been privileged to hold space for in therapy. They speak to what words alone often can’t — to the ache beneath the armour, the hope threaded through despair, the part of us that still dares to believe in healing.

So when you listen, I hope you hear more than just my voice.

I hope you hear yours.