Born and brought up…
near the fertile estuary of the Carmel River mouth, singer/songwriter Meghan Lehman blends her heartfelt, confessional lyrics with country-tinged melodies that make known the formative years she spent listening to musical heroes like Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams, and Gillian Welch.
Though she wrote poetry and sang from a young age, it wasn’t until her time in college that Meghan taught herself to play guitar and wrote her first songs. She spent several years grappling with the discomfort of being on stage and gaining confidence by performing in small venues around Southern California.
Soon after she released her first album "A Stranger Here" in 2009, she met her dreamboat husband and soon gave birth to two feisty faerie daughters. Music took the backseat, but it felt like a good trade, and she figured she would make her way back to songwriting someday.
The transformative process of becoming a mother rekindled a strong connection with the non-physical realm that Meghan had felt as a young girl, and in 2019 she started exploring Energy Medicine and intuitive healing. With ease she had never experienced, Meghan began working with clients and swiftly moved into full-time work as an Intuitive Reiki practitioner.
This work opened her eyes to the profound importance of healing ancestral patterns around being silenced, disempowered, and shamed in order to move toward one's most fully expressed and expanded life, especially among women and mothers.
Through the mirror of her clients, Meghan realized that she had let her music, this life-giving, sacred way of expressing herself, fall to the wayside for all the usual-suspect reasons. Though it required some self-compassion and a lot of therapy, she recognized that she owed it to herself, her daughters, and anyone else touched by her songs, to give them a chance to live and breathe out in the world.
So with a young family, a business, and all the responsibilities, joys, and frustrations that accompany being a human on Earth right now, Meghan is carving out time for this sacred creative expression that has been patiently waiting for her to honor it through writing, singing, and sharing her songs.