ICYMI: #WomanCrushWednesday IG Live featuring Kendra & the Bunnies

BY LAURA HARPER/WWR Staff Writer

Practicing self-love can often be a challenge for some, but few are willing to embrace and overcome that challenge more than musician and spiritual healer Kendra Muecke of Kendra & the Bunnies.

Although Muecke now embraces the beauty of self-love, this did not always come easily to her. The inspiration to begin her self-love journey began with her speaking to herself in the same manner with which she would encourage a young girl to embrace her natural inner strength and beauty.

“I kept coming back with some sort of blame,” Muecke said. “I wanted to flip the switch and start loving myself.”

Muecke is able to practice this through her music, especially through songs such as “Self Love Proclamation.” The idea was that by singing this song over and over again, she would begin to embrace the lyrics as an incantation to herself.

Muecke first started writing poetry in high school and now sees her music as a way to bring that poetry to life in ways that are helpful to both herself and others.

“My art is my everything,” Muecke said. “It gives me the capacity to experience different things.”

In addition to her career as a musician, Muecke is also a spiritual healer. She spent a lot of time studying the techniques of other types of healers throughout history and used that research to develop her own methods, in which she picks up on what others may need and guides them to meditative exercises that can help bring them a sense of peace and enlightenment. She was inspired to do this after overcoming her own series of challenges that have stood in the way of her pursuing her dream to be a performer in the past.

“I’m proud of myself for the steps I have taken to achieve my dreams,” Muecke said.

Although she tries not to let anything stand in between her and her goals now, Muecke admits that there are some challenges she has faced that may be a result of being a woman in the music industry. In particular, she finds that there is a lot of ageism used against female musicians, as older women are often compared to younger women and made to feel “too old” to be pursuing a music career.

Muecke says that while this can be frustrating, she tries not to let this bother her and is willing to embrace musicians regardless of what age they are when they break into the industry.

“We need to change the stigma in the industry, period,” Muecke said.

Upcoming, Muecke is very excited for Kendra & the Bunnies to make a full band debut on the main stage of The Viper Room in West Hollywood, California. In the past, she has only played the acoustic stage as a solo artist.

Kendra & the Bunnies will also begin recording their new project in October.

For more on Kendra & the Bunnies, you can check out the entire interview on the @OfficialWomenWhoRock IGTV channel on Instagram.