A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. Sometimes you have to go quiet to finish the thing. This week was that week. No YouTube video — the first time since I started the channel. Exhaustion and overwhelm, so I turned inward. Just the particular stillness that happens when something is almost done and needs your full attention to cross the finish line. Two things crossed it this week. VOCAL RECESS is now available outside the community. 🎭 Seven weeks of...
7 days ago • 8 min read
Something I've been building for a while is finally ready. VOCAL RECESS — The Healthy Voice Archive, Volume 1 — is now open. Seven weeks of voice work that doesn't feel like voice work. A noir murder mystery where every chapter hides a diction lesson in the prose. A Grimm-style fairy tale about a child who wandered into a forest and forgot how to find their way home. A vintage romance novel written to be read aloud — because the reading IS the somatic work. A punk week. A comedy week. A Shel...
8 days ago • 1 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. This week I hit 40,000 subscribers on YouTube. I want to tell you what happened in the comments — because it says something about why this work exists, and why it matters more than I can sometimes find words for. One person wrote: "I always knew something needs fixing, but I didn't know what it was, until I saw your channel and I said, this is it." Another: "My husband asked me what I was watching because I looked...
14 days ago • 10 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. Something went viral this week. Why Shame Lives in Your Hips hit a nerve. A big one. Thousands of new people found their way here — through the psoas, through the root chakra, through the very specific ache of a body that has been holding fear for so long it forgot that's what it was doing. Most of the responses were exactly what you'd expect when something real lands somewhere real. Recognition. Relief. A lot of I...
21 days ago • 7 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. Something landed this week. I've been writing a 7-day series on language — on the magic hidden inside the words we use every day, the spells we cast without knowing, the inherited curses we've been carrying since before we knew language could be used as a weapon. And by Day 3, something in the room had shifted. One reader wrote: "I am someone whose voice is meant to be heard." Just that. In the comments. Like she was...
28 days ago • 8 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. April is over. And I want to take a moment before we turn the page — because this last month was something in the Healthy Voice Community, on Substack, and on YouTube. We built a map. Not of a voice, but of the body the voice lives in. The psoas, the gut, the fascia, the lymph, the jaw, the face, the chest — all the way to the immune system. Eight essays. Eight body systems. One complete picture of why the voice is...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. This is the last week of April. And I'm sitting here at the end of a month that changed something in me — in my sessions, in my own body, in the community — thinking about how much has moved. We started with the psoas. The deepest muscle in the body, quietly holding an old earthquake. We moved through the gut, the fascia, the jaw, the lymph, the diaphragm. We built a map — not of a voice, but of a body. A body that...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. Something keeps arriving this month from different directions, in different forms, and landing in the same place. The fascia that thickened around an old wound and never got the memo that the threat had passed. The jaw that learned to hold everything in and forgot how to let go. The voice that strains for volume because nobody ever taught it that resonance was an option. The sacred music you left behind with a faith...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. This month is called My Body, My Voice. And this week, the body showed up. Not metaphorically. Not as a concept in an article. Actually, physically, in sessions — cracking open, releasing, crying. The kind of crying that isn't about sadness. It's about relief. Something that has been held in the tissue for years finally finding a way out. I cried a little too. Because that's what this month is — a reckoning with the...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read