🎶John Mayer & the Emotional Support Water Bottle🎶

Sometimes joy comes from the way someone names a truth you didn’t know you were carrying. Listening to Life with John Mayer channel on SiriusXM, I caught one of those moments. Before playing a song, he talked about something he’d recently discovered: the “emotional support water bottle.”

It’s a funny phrase but also completely true. For many people, a water bottle isn’t just hydration. It’s a lifeline—covered in stickers, decorated with reminders, carried like a loyal sidekick through the day. It’s comfort in an object.

John decided to find a song that captured that essence. His choice? Donna Lewis – I Love You Always Forever. A track that feels like a hug set to music—steady, comforting, endlessly looping. His reasoning was simple but profound: if an emotional support water bottle is about reassurance and presence, why not pair it with a song that offers the same?

There’s joy in that perspective. The way he took something lighthearted and gave it soul. He didn’t dismiss the idea as silly. He honored it, met it where it lived, and then elevated it with music. That’s the kind of lens we could all use more of—finding resonance in the ordinary, seeing meaning in the everyday props we carry, and pairing life’s little rituals with the soundtracks that soothe us.

Maybe that’s the real takeaway. Joy doesn’t have to be loud or monumental. It can be tucked inside a bottle with a few stickers or wrapped in the melody of a 90s pop song. What matters is how it steadies you. How it feeds your soul in the moment you need it most.

🌿 There’s No Place Like Soul.