This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale looks at the power of music and what it actually evokes in us. Music is not just background noise but something powerful that triggers many memories and emotions in us, often in a way almost nothing else can.

She talked to psychotherapist Eoghan O’Connor from Summit Counselling about how science backs up what we already know and researchers have found that music therapy produced significantly greater reductions in depression than standard care on its own while rhythm and music can be routes to helping us regulate our nervous system – often reaching what words sometimes can’t.