It's a new month, so it's time for a new theme. This October, inside The Healthy Voice Community, we're spending the whole month on where power lives. It's also a very big anniversary for me, because one year ago I launched my YouTube channel. I originally called it The Healthy Singer, but within a few weeks I changed it to The Healthy Voice because I realized I didn't just want to help singers. I wanted to help all voices, speakers too, anyone who had ever been made to feel they couldn't use...
3 days ago • 8 min read
For a long time I only offered single sessions, one at a time, because that’s how I started and it felt honest to keep it simple. But the longer I do this work, the more I notice that the real shifts don’t tend to happen in one hour. They happen across a few, when we get to build on what opened up last time instead of starting fresh every visit, and when your body has room to trust that we’re going to keep going. So I’ve finally opened two session packages, and I priced them below what you’d...
17 days ago • 1 min read
I used to walk out in front of an audience without a second thought, and for years that was the most natural thing in the world to me: the lights and the faces and the sound of my own voice filling a room I loved being in. And then somewhere along the way it changed, and I would step out to sing for the very people I had adored performing for, and I would freeze. It happened one-on-one too, in ordinary conversation; this person who had been so free and so comfortable for so long suddenly...
17 days ago • 5 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. 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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....
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. For the last two weeks, the community has been living in the passaggio. Learning the registers. Learning how to send the voice into different rooms of the body. That work can feel technical. Slow, even. You do it and do it, and nothing seems to move. And then one day a note you couldn't feel before just opens. The cobwebs clear, and the vibration lands somewhere new. That's the breakthrough. And it isn't a quiet one....
about 2 months ago • 5 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 2 months 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...
2 months ago • 11 min read