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Our body already knows how to make powerful sound—it just needs permission to feel. This episode explores the emotional physiology of the voice, revealing how emotion creates vocal technique naturally, not the other way around. The mechanics are the result, not the root.
Chelsea shares the story of breaking silence about someone who had power over her—and the moment in her car afterward when everything she'd been holding in broke free through her voice. In that moment of complete emotional release, she felt every muscle working to carry her sound, revealing a depth her voice had never felt before. Through learning from her Balinese teacher Bu Candri and recording her first album, we discover where the real blocks live: not in our throat, but in our relationship to feeling. When we reconnect with embodied memory and let authentic emotion move through sound, our body does what it already knows how to do.
✨ Key Takeaways
- Our body already knows how to create powerful sound—it just needs permission to feel
- Emotion creates vocal technique naturally—mechanics are the result, not the root
- The real blocks aren't in our throat—they're in our relationship to feeling
✍️ Journal On This
- What emotion have we been holding that wants to be expressed through sound?
- Can we identify moments when our voice felt most free? What were we feeling then?
Share
If this episode stirred something in you—if you recognized your own story of having your voice shut down, or if you felt permission to create more safety for yourself—I'd love to hear about it. Leave a review and share what resonated. Your story might be exactly what someone else needs to hear, too.
Resources
Links to hear Bu Candri’s singing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sszMXmlcDLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzWD0Ufh7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMa8Hks6HQs
https://www.tiktok.com/@condongbali/video/7500525903743601926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHHos-sdWHo&list=RDsHHos-sdWHo&start_radio=1
Connect ☎️
- send me (Chelsea) a note here!
- download the Inward Voice Meditation Journey
- share the podcast with someone who would enjoy it
Thank you for listening ♥️
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Our body already knows how to make powerful sound—it just needs permission to feel. This episode explores the emotional physiology of the voice, revealing how emotion creates vocal technique naturally, not the other way around. The mechanics are the result, not the root.
Chelsea shares the story of breaking silence about someone who had power over her—and the moment in her car afterward when everything she'd been holding in broke free through her voice. In that moment of complete emotional release, she felt every muscle working to carry her sound, revealing a depth her voice had never felt before. Through learning from her Balinese teacher Bu Candri and recording her first album, we discover where the real blocks live: not in our throat, but in our relationship to feeling. When we reconnect with embodied memory and let authentic emotion move through sound, our body does what it already knows how to do.
✨ Key Takeaways
- Our body already knows how to create powerful sound—it just needs permission to feel
- Emotion creates vocal technique naturally—mechanics are the result, not the root
- The real blocks aren't in our throat—they're in our relationship to feeling
✍️ Journal On This
- What emotion have we been holding that wants to be expressed through sound?
- Can we identify moments when our voice felt most free? What were we feeling then?
Share
If this episode stirred something in you—if you recognized your own story of having your voice shut down, or if you felt permission to create more safety for yourself—I'd love to hear about it. Leave a review and share what resonated. Your story might be exactly what someone else needs to hear, too.
Resources
Links to hear Bu Candri’s singing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sszMXmlcDLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzWD0Ufh7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMa8Hks6HQs
https://www.tiktok.com/@condongbali/video/7500525903743601926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHHos-sdWHo&list=RDsHHos-sdWHo&start_radio=1
Connect ☎️
- send me (Chelsea) a note here!
- download the Inward Voice Meditation Journey
- share the podcast with someone who would enjoy it
Thank you for listening ♥️