Serena Dyer: Don’t Die with Your Music Still in You
Being raised like that is just a really beautiful and safe experience because it is very special that when you’re young and you have two people that tell you over and over again “I love you, no matter what – you can be a painter, scientist or a rollerblader and it is not going to make any difference what you do because who I love is not what you do. Who I love is who you are”. This made me feel that I wanted to offer that same accepting love to other people that I have met.
I have definitely struggled with it at times too because even though you have parents that are very spiritual, you still have to learn to love yourself in that way. You can have great parents, you can have abusive parents, you can have mediocre parents and you can have no parents – unless you learn to offer that same unconditional love toward yourself, you will struggle with that and I think everybody does at different points in their lives.
“I do think that out of personal struggles, we grow and learn the most and life does become more beautiful”.
DIRK TERPSTRA: Do you think that your experience is similar to what so many kids feel when they grow up, or do you think that this feeling is also related to way your parents raised you?
Serena Dyer: I sometimes think that it was a bit of both but also definitely related to the way I was raised.
