It can be hard to remember with stay-at-home orders in place that the body is a system that requires maintenance. I don't mean just regular exercise and/or eating well -- though those things certainly help. I mean the periodic check-ins…
Today, we are going to explore a low-tech, physical disruption in order to activate better breathing. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, knees gently bent, with active alignment in your spine. By active alignment, I mean a spine that feels…
"To understand sound we must know silence. To hear sound fully we must hear silence." - Dudley Knight, Speaking with Skill It is odd to think of silence as hard to achieve while many are quarantined at home alone. Still,…
I don't need to be in your home office to know that your tongue is probably tighter than it should be. No judgment, it seems that our tongue tries to hold for dear life in the best of times. And,…
How is your voice these days? Are you noticing more fatigue? Is it as dynamic as usual? Do you know? Most of us ignore the voice at times -- perhaps a lot of the time. The issue now, as we…
Yesterday, I gave a talk to a Women in Tech group. One of these women asked, "Should we just lower the pitch of our voices if that gives us more authority?" She was referring to an often-cited 2012 study that…
You may have noticed that I took last week off from the blog. As we are in a marathon, I took a moment to recharge and highly recommend it. As it turns out, this weekend we had glorious weather in…