You can be highly capable, experienced, and outwardly ready to act - and still feel something inside quietly holding you back when it’s time to speak, decide, or take space. Not because you lack knowledge or ability. But because at some point, you learned to minimize yourself. And often, it doesn’t feel like a choice. It becomes a pattern: – overthinking ideas until they lose momentum – trusting other people’s opinions more than your own – crediting success to circumstance

I became the first vocal psychotherapist in the Baltic countries, accredited by the Music Therapy Center in New York. I studied with the method’s founder, Dr. Diane Austin, as well as Tina Warnock and Nele Fiers. Only now do I realize that the timing of that meeting was perfect and why sometimes it’s worth not delaying — we completed what was the last course Diane ever taught. Fourteen women from thirteen countries around the world came together for a deep experiential work,

Suppressing anger — we become passive. Exploding with anger — we become unreliable. Transforming anger — we become effective. We get angry when: Our boundaries are crossed We don’t express our expectations We accumulate tension We don’t have a safe way to express ourselves Anger manifests as: Physical tension (neck, shoulders, jaw), headaches, fatigue, etc. Sarcasm, procrastination, conflict avoidance People-pleasing, fear of saying “no,” loss of energy after interacting with

We can look at the knowledge of the voice or the relationship with our voice from different perspectives. The voice as communication or...