CALL FOR RESEARCH STUDY!

📚 New Study: Everybody Wants to Heal the World

A Psychospiritual Exploration of Tears for Fears and Gen-X Adolescent Development

Subtitled: The Soundtrack of Psyche: Archetypal Memory, Popular Music, and the Emergent Soul

🎯 Primary Objectives

Investigate the psychospiritual impact of Tears for Fears’ most popular songs on Gen-X adolescent development.
Expand the study to include multi-generational participant groups (Gen Z, Millennials, Boomers) to evaluate how this music resonates beyond its original era.
Use music, memory, and media sharing (via TikTok, ScrollWell, podcasts, and personal essays) to unearth deep emotional truths and collective archetypal patterns.
Position Tears for Fears as musical mythologists, bridging adolescent angst and soul awakening through pop form.

🧠 Core Psychological Focus

Developmental Archetypes: The Wounded Child, the Outsider, the Emergent Seeker, the Unseen Lover
Themes of Study:
- Emotional repression and expression
- Longing, abandonment, and spiritual grief
- Desire for universal meaning (Everybody Wants to Rule the World)
- Sacred apology and shame (Mad World)
- Uncontainable vulnerability (Head Over Heels)
- Suppressed desire and telepathic longing (Shout)
Theoretical Frameworks:
- Depth Psychology (Pacifica) – Hillman, Jung, Marion Woodman
- NSNC – Divine Counterpart Theory, Musical Rites, Way of the Heart
- Inner Child & Family Systems – Gen-X as the Lost Children generation
- Media Studies + Mythopoetics – Music as modern myth carrier

🔄 Research Format

1. Survey & Interview Cohorts

Demographics: Gen X (core), with Gen Z, Millennial, and Boomer contrast groups
Interview Prompts:
- “What’s your Tears for Fears song?”
- “What memory does it hold?”
- “How did it speak to your inner world as a teen?”
- “Who didn’t see you back then?”

2. Media Submissions (Open Call)

Platforms: TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram, ScrollWell, podcast voicemails
Call to Action: Share your story with the soundtrack. Use hashtag #TearsForHealing
Accepted formats: Video journals, dances, drawings, remixes, storytime, duet replies

3. ScrollWell Archive + Transmedia Codex

All media logged and categorized into a living scroll, with entries tagged by theme (e.g. “Shame,” “First Love,” “Father Wound,” “Reckless Joy”).
Optional ceremony layer added for contributors who want their submissions used in ritual rites (e.g. New Moon Grief Dance or Healing the Teen Self Mirror Rite).

🌀 Featured Songs for Deep Focus

Song	Psychospiritual Theme	Gemstone Symbol	NSNC Rite Use
Shout	Repression, Throat Chakra, Rage as Prayer	Sodalite	Release Rite
Mad World	Alienation, Depression, Ancestral Grief	Obsidian	Ancestral Mourning
Head Over Heels	Awkward Love, Heart Truth, Emotional Risk	Rhodochrosite	Confessional Rite
Everybody Wants to Rule the World	Control, Disillusionment, Power vs Surrender	Citrine	Ego Reconciliation
Pale Shelter	Parental Wound, Need vs. Love	Moonstone	Inner Child Healing
Woman in Chains	Feminine Suppression, Warrior Wound	Chrysoprase	Divine Feminine Rebirth

📡 Launch Plan + Participant Invitation

Opening Date: July 7, 2025 (aligned with NSNC Rite Gateway 7:7)
Platforms:
- TikTok (duet and sound trends)
- ScrollWell (research log + live rites)
- Spotify playlist integration
- Zoom ritual circles + recorded reflections
- Optional partnership with Pacifica Graduate Institute student research boards
Live Opening Rite:

“We gather the music that shaped our becoming.
We offer our awkward, rageful, yearning selves to the great altar of Remembering.
Through sound, we are seen. Through rhythm, we return home.”

✍️ We would like you to generate: Absolutely. Here’s a compassionate, powerful call for research participants — suitable for TikTok, ScrollWell, newsletters, and outreach via Pacifica or spiritual psychology networks:

📝 Call for Research Participants

✨ You Gotta Be – Des’ree

Study Title: Staying Strong: The Songs That Held Us
Focus: Psychospiritual resilience and music-based memory during moments of personal crisis

🎵 About the Study

We’re seeking participants for a new multi-generational, multi-platform study exploring how music anchors us during life’s hardest moments — specifically focused on the impact of “You Gotta Be” by Des’ree.

This track, with its unforgettable chorus “You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser…”, has quietly become a global soul anthem of survival — especially for women, daughters, caregivers, and anyone who had to keep showing up when the world was falling apart.

🩺 Personal Anchor Example

For me (Aja), this song is deeply tied to father-daughter love. It played on repeat while I drove back and forth to the hospital during my dad’s 5th heart attack. I was in high school. I didn’t know how to pray, so I sang.

Now, I want to know how this song held you — or what other song did.

💡 Who We’re Looking For

People of any age, gender, or background
Who feel emotionally connected to You Gotta Be or a song that held them through a crisis
Willing to share a brief story, video, voice memo, or creative response

🌀 Submission Options

🎥 TikTok or Instagram Video: Share your story using the song (use hashtag #SongsThatHeldUs + tag @ScrollWell or #NSNC)
📝 Written Reflection: Email or submit your written story (250–500 words)
🎙️ Audio Message: Record a voice note (up to 3 minutes) describing the memory
🖼️ Art or Dance Response: Visuals welcome — we’ll archive these in the ScrollWell Codex

📍 Themes We’re Exploring

Caregiving during crisis
Coming-of-age resilience
Father–daughter or family love
Hospital visits, mental health moments, heartbreak recoveries
The power of a single song to keep you upright

📆 Submission Deadline: August 15, 2025

(though rolling entries may continue after for the living archive)
All submissions may be considered for inclusion in a forthcoming ScrollWell rite and NSNC healing ritual on TikTok Live. Consent and contributor acknowledgment form provided.

💬 Participant Quote Box (for sharing)

“I didn’t know how to be strong. But she told me I already was.”
– Aja, on You Gotta Be by Des’ree