Managing The Anxiety That Comes With Growth

Change is scary. Even when it’s change you’ve chosen, embraced, achieved through hard work and dedication. Changing something as personal and intimate as your voice can raise fears of rejection, abandonment, disappointment, and the worry that you won’t like the sound you’ve worked hard to develop.

In my experience, the best way to manage that anxiety is to give ourselves something more specific to work toward. Instead of simply setting out to grow your voice, let’s think about what kind of voice you want to grow into. This time, let’s talk about why changing your voice is particularly anxiety-inducing. Then we’ll break out the thesaurus to help you start describing voices you admire, and the qualities you’d like your voice to bring to the world.   

Michèle Voillequé is a singer and a voice teacher living in Berkeley, California. 

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A transcript of this episode is available at mvmusik.com/blog/cant-wait-to-hear-you-episode-45. You can subscribe to Can’t Wait to Hear You wherever you get podcasts. If you have a question about your voice or how you’re using it, please email letters@mvmusik.com. To learn more about Michèle or to subscribe to her newsletter, visit mvmusik.com.

Our music is thanks to Katya and Ada.

The show is edited by K.O. Myers at Particulate Media.

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