Rachel Thomas Psychiatry

I need to change my name here or shut down my accounts. Same with YouTube. Maybe same with Google?

🎧 “BACK IN TUNE”

(Country · Pop · Rap Fusion | McArdle / M.O.M. / ALLOVEUS)

Intro (breath, stomp, hush)

Hold steady.
Listen.

Verse 1

Hands shaking like tambourines of truth,
Hearts keeping our rhythmic score.
We don’t simply Medicare
Lives living in war.

Wish we learned early how to keep it tight,
Community symphonies embrace even chaos
to SURTHRIVE the fight.
Though the signal spins when the noise gets loud,
we keep tempo together,
and dance with our crowd.

Pre-Chorus (crescendo)

No drowning the harmonic message,
No burying the enlightened flame,
There’s wisdom in this crescendo,
When we dare to call it by name.

Chorus (ALLOVEUS — open call)

No numbing it,
No dumbing it down,
Won’t kill the signal just to find our sound.
We aren’t broken — maybe we learned too soon,
We’ve been livin’ off beat…
we need ALLOVEUS attuned.

Verse 2 (LOCKED)

Regulation’s an internal practice,
innate rhythms already learned,
Not a cage nor collar,
NOT SOME DEBT OUR HARD WORK EARNED.

Timing tells truth
as rests in spaces between.

We are all saviors —
showing up, holding the scene.

Pre-Chorus (short, breathy)

Stay awake to the signal,
Stay kind to the truth,
What we’re hearing right now
Is what carries us through.

Chorus (repeat, fuller)

No numbing it,
No dumbing it down,
Won’t kill the signal just to find our sound.
We aren’t broken — maybe we learned too soon,
We’ve been livin’ off beat…
we need ALLOVEUS attuned.

*(background voices, soft: “attuned… attuned…”) *

Bridge (FINAL)

Orchestra rising, no one alone,
Every nervous system finding its home.
Can’t fully erase scars
or fully mute our pain.
We will write the next movement
as we create our refrain.

Final Chorus (last pass, restrained power)

No numbing it,
No dumbing it down,
Won’t kill the signal just to find our sound.
We aren’t broken — maybe we learned too soon,
We’ve been livin’ off beat…
we need ALLOVEUS attuned.

-Rachel Lee McArdle

ALLOVEUS / SURTHRIVER / AYE

McArdle / M.O.M. / SURTHRIVER / ALLOVEUS

Rachel Lee McArdle, APRN (formerly Rachel L. Thomas) is an Advanced Practice Neuropsychiatric Nurse and the originator of the McArdle Orchestral Methodology (M.O.M.), a participatory, evidence-informed approach to psychiatric care.

Her work integrates contemporary neuroscience, thoughtful medication stewardship when appropriate, and whole-person supports that honor the nervous system, lived experience, creativity, and capacity for growth. Care is collaborative rather than prescriptive, emphasizing regulation, skill-building, meaning, and sustainable wellbeing.

When clinically appropriate and welcomed, M.O.M. may include integrative and expressive modalities—such as art, music, movement, sensory supports, and nourishment—as nervous-system-regulating complements to medical care. Each person is engaged as an active participant in their own process, not a passive recipient of treatment.