When a second-degree burn threatened to ruin Spring Strawberry Music Festival 2026, an unexpected act of kindness—and a tube of SilvaSorb® Silver Antimicrobial Wound Gel—helped turn a painful experience into a story of healing, gratitude, community, and music.

Follow the day-by-day photo journey of my recovery, learn what worked for me, and hear how a bacon grease accident inspired the bluegrass comedy song "Bacon Grease Baptism."

This post is also a reflection on my final Strawberry Festival adventure with Leopard Lounge, the magical watering hole in the woods that brought together dreamers, musicians, storytellers, and lifelong friends.

While this chapter comes to a close, new adventures await, and I look forward to sharing the journey through music, food, art, humor, and community. And who knows—maybe someday a certain banjo-playing comedy legend will hear the song and decide to join the fun. https://www.tretaylor.com

🥁 The Rhythm of Recovery 🪘 Don’t Break: What Recovery Taught Me About Strength is a Health & Wellness reflection for anyone healing from physical injury, emotional trauma, or nervous system exhaustion. Inspired by real experiences in physical therapy and recovery after major surgery, this post explores how rest is not weakness — it is training for the warrior within.

Whether you are recovering from surgery, burnout, emotional hardship, or life transitions, this piece is meant to remind you:

You are healing.
You are rebuilding.
You are becoming stronger every day.

Explore more Health & Wellness reflections, recovery tools, and creative healing resources at:
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May this artwork, this story, and this music help you rise stronger on the path ahead.

The brand-new 2026 U.S. Food Pyramid is here, and it’s flipping old nutrition myths on their glittery heads. In this easy, down-to-earth guide, Tré Taylor and Bleep the Tattoo (tiny chef hat, huge opinions, minor swearing problem) break down why the pyramid was updated, what it recommends now, and how this “real food” shift can support better energy, fewer cravings, and simpler meal choices—especially for a January reset. We’ll share the big benefits, a few smart cautions, and recipe inspiration to help you build healthier, happier, more delicious meals you’ll actually want to eat. Bleep Approved. ✅👨‍🍳🔺 www.tretaylor.com

Empaths and neurodiverse sensitives often feel overwhelmed by crowds, conflict, and emotional noise. This empowering, funny, compassionate post offers validation, energetic boundary tools, and a simple visualization practice to help you stay open-hearted without absorbing everyone else—plus insight into “weight as insulation” and nervous-system safety for psychic, clairsentient, and highly sensitive people. www.tretaylor.com

A powerful, vulnerable guide to healing neurodivergent burnout through fascia work, trauma release, EMDR, water therapy, somatic practices, spiritual grounding, and self-nourishment. Written by Tré Taylor, this article reframes health and wellness as a sacred journey of returning to the body, releasing stored pain, and reclaiming intuitive strength. Includes top resources for fascia, trauma, and emotional healing. www.tretaylor.com

A powerful soul-retrieval message for anyone healing from trauma, grief, or soul loss. This blog and its companion song “Come Back to Me” call your spirit home through fire, rhythm, African ancestral energy, and the fierce compassion of Shango. A healing reminder that your lost pieces can return, your fire can rise again, and you can reclaim your whole self. www.tretaylor.com

This blog post is a deeply personal exploration of awakening, emotional resilience, neurodiversity, and the unseen “side effects” of being human in an overwhelming world. Through raw storytelling, humor, spiritual insight, and lived experience, Tré Taylor unpacks what it means to navigate trauma, anxiety, sensory overload, and the hidden workings of the unconscious mind — while slowly reclaiming self-trust, personal power, and a sense of belonging inside your own body.

Blending metaphysics, psychology, self-healing, and the grit of real life, this piece reminds readers that healing isn’t linear, awakening isn’t glamorous, and transformation often begins in the moments when we feel most lost. It encourages readers to reconnect with their spirit, call back their energy, create healthier patterns, and rediscover joy in simple, grounding practices.

This journey leads to one empowering truth: it is finally safe to be yourself. You are infinite, resilient, and capable of rebuilding your life from the inside out.
A companion anthem, “Safe to Be You (You Are Infinite),” offers an energetic soundtrack for your own awakening. tretaylor.com

Discover how discernment becomes your divine radar in a world of deception. Tré Taylor explores the sacred dance between light and shadow, revealing how even the devil’s temptations can teach us truth, self-trust, and spiritual strength. tretaylor.com

“The Reluctant Shaman: Notes from the Lightning Path” by singer-writer Tré Taylor (tretaylor.com) is a raw, funny, and soul-stirring reflection on awakening through chaos, van-life minimalism, and divine downloads. From battling inner demons to embracing humor, music, and everyday wellness, Taylor shares tools for surviving transformation—reminding us that healing the world starts with healing the self. A luminous blend of memoir, mysticism, and practical spirituality for the modern seeker. tretaylor.com

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A soulful, first-person journey through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy — how eight months of treatment helped a neurodiverse artist heal from trauma, depression, and homelessness, restoring her creativity, clarity, and will to live. A powerful story of science meeting spirit, written with heart, humor, and hope. ~ tretaylor.com

Step right into the surreal sideshow of the human mind, where clowns meet consciousness and cream pies become enlightenment. In “The Art of Absurdity: Outwitting Your Own Unconscious with Humor, ” Tré Taylor explores how laughter disarms the ego, how play dissolves pain, and how sacred silliness can save your sanity. This is a manifesto for the creatively unhinged — a love letter to Monty Python hearts, Benny Hill brains, and every soul brave enough to laugh through the existential pie fight of life.