Rachel Tan was months into a downward spiral when she made a decision that changed everything: quitting her full-time job.<\/p>\n
What seemed like a risky move turned out to be the first step in reclaiming her mental health and reigniting a lifelong passion for music.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old told Stomp that she experiences waves of depression, a mental health disorder marked by feelings of helplessness<\/a>.<\/p>\n But ever since she founded Momentum Lessons<\/a>, an online music school, she has rediscovered her purpose and joy.<\/p>\n “I started teaching the violin in 2010, so music has always been part of my life,” she shared.<\/p>\n “It was about four years ago that I started to make my own song covers, which I call ‘remixes’. I sing out the melody myself, and create the rest of the instruments myself.”<\/p>\n Rachel said she “hadn’t touched anything to do with music” throughout the six months prior to leaving corporate life.<\/p>\n “It was when I left my job that I realised that going back to music, not just by teaching the violin, but by producing song covers, had a positive impact not just on my mental health, but on others when I shared my songs with them.<\/p>\n “My friends told me to do more, which encouraged me to carry on. Producing covers was just a hobby at first. I didn’t expect to end up teaching it to others. But as the word spread, I started getting requests to teach.”<\/p>\n In 2024, Rachel founded Momentum Lessons, where she teaches students how to produce music using the professional recording studio app Logic Pro. She now teaches about 40 students on her own.<\/p>\n Seeing her students get inspired by their own works, just like she does, brings her joy.<\/p>\n “They tell me that they feel healthier and happier both emotionally and physically just by making music.”<\/p>\n Rachel told Stomp that the biggest takeaway her students get from her classes is a personal sense of achievement and satisfaction when they are able to recreate a song from scratch.<\/p>\n “I hope Momentum Lessons will inspire more people to chase their dreams. If music is something that brings you joy, then by all means do more music!”<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to contribute a story or submit it to our WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n Get more of Stomp’s latest updates by following us on:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Tan was months into a downward spiral when she made a decision that changed everything: quitting her…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[38465,210,517,975,3993,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-51259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-amazing-people","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-talent","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}