A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist.There's a moment in a lot of songs where the whole thing lifts. The key changes, and the same melody suddenly feels higher, brighter, or a little more urgent. And if you're not listening for the mechanics, you don't notice them at all. You just feel that something shifted. It's been a week of big energetic shifts. We lost a truly iconic voice. And from the flood of articles and videos and posts, it's obvious how many...
2 days ago • 8 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist.There's a moment in a lot of songs where the whole thing lifts. The key changes, and the same melody suddenly feels higher, brighter, or a little more urgent. And if you're not listening for the mechanics, you don't notice them at all. You just feel that something shifted. I've been thinking about that all month, because so many of you are in the middle of one. A key change in your own life. And from the inside, a key...
9 days ago • 6 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. We've spent all of August breaking through things. Higher notes. Older stories. The tight places in the throat, and the tighter ones in the mind. Now, during the upcoming last week of the month, we do something different. We turn around and look at what was actually in the way. And here's what I keep finding, after years of this work: Most of what stops us was never actually a true wall. It was only a perception....
16 days ago • 9 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. Honesty keeps making itself present in my sessions this week. I believe honesty is one of the most essential parts of the healing path. It's also one of the most challenging. What I've noticed is that there comes a point when you realize that in order to move forward, you have to be honest about something you've been avoiding. Something that feels too painful to look at directly. And yet it's the avoidance that's...
about 1 month ago • 11 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. August is about breaking through. In voice lessons, we work on something called the passaggio — the transition point between the chest voice and the upper register where most untrained singers hit a wall. The voice gets stuck, tension rises, and the belief settles in that they simply cannot sing. It's one of the most common and most discouraging experiences in voice work. But the belief is not true. What's true is...
about 1 month ago • 11 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. There is something I notice before anyone opens their mouth. Before the first word, or the first note, I already know something about what I'm going to hear. I can see it in the way someone walks into the room. The shoulders that have traveled forward to guard the chest. The chin dropped toward the sternum. Or the opposite: the spine held very straight, deliberately, the way you hold something when you're afraid to...
about 1 month ago • 11 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. This was the first week since I started The Healthy Voice that I didn't post a YouTube video — and I'm pretty sure I haven't missed a single week until now. We've been in the middle of a heat wave here in Los Angeles, and I've also been focusing more of my time on private students. I'm now seeing around nine clients a week, which I love deeply and have no intention of giving up. That, on top of all the live community...
about 2 months ago • 13 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. Sovereignty has a lot to do with timing. Knowing when to act. When to speak. When it's time to double down on your breath, your body, the feeling of your own tongue in your mouth. Most of the time we just talk — we take it for granted, we move through conversations on autopilot, and we don't pay much attention to what's actually happening in the body while we do it. That's exactly what manipulators count on. A...
about 2 months ago • 11 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. How are you spending your time right now? Not in the beats-per-minute sense. Not the clock on the wall or the number in the corner of your laptop screen. I mean the bigger picture of it. Are you fully here as you read this — or are you somewhere else? Replaying something that happened last week, running calculations about everything you need to get done before the weekend? I ask because I live in a constant...
2 months ago • 14 min read