Honoring Your Voice

Honoring Your Voice Kristina Kelly is a speech therapist with over 20 years of experience empowering her clients by helping them find and use their authentic voice.

08/19/2024

Unapologetically 💓

Well Done, Stephen! Well Said, Whitney! Congrats Team USA!" There is no one way to success, there is no one way to do th...
07/30/2024

Well Done, Stephen! Well Said, Whitney! Congrats Team USA!
" There is no one way to success, there is no one way to do this life, and there is no one way to find your purpose.
Be unapologetically and unabashedly you in every way possible, and you might end up the hero of your story as well."

Sometimes, the world needs a Simone Biles to blow us away with raw talent, and sometimes, we need someone like Stephen Nedoroscik to remind us that a nerdy (his words), bespectacled engineer who can solve a Rubik's Cube in under 10 seconds can be a hero (Spoiler alert if you haven't watched the Men's gymnastics final yet.)

I love his story.

When he didn't progress in gymnastics like he wanted to, he threw himself into the one event he excelled at: the pommel horse. He's won all sorts of competitions as an event specialist, and literally was put on the team because he scores so big on this one apparatus.

During today's team finals, he spent the day bringing his teammates water, giving high fives, and cheering on every performance with incredible enthusiasm. And then it was his turn.

Nedoroscik was the last athlete to compete on the team's last rotation. He needed to hit his routine for the Americans to end a 16-year medal drought. No pressure.

It was a build-up right out of an iconic sports movie (Do you believe in miracles?)

While the pressure kept building in the gym, he meditated. A slight smile crept onto his face when he heard the cheers for his teammate's score. And then, like Clark Kent turning into Superman, he took off his jacket, removed his glasses, and puffed out his chest--and HE KILLED IT!

Nedoroscik took an untraditional path to get to the pinnacle of his sport and it paid off with an Olympic Bronze medal.

There is no one way to success, there is no one way to do this life, and there is no one way to find your purpose.

Be unapologetically and unabashedly you in every way possible, and you might end up the hero of your story as well.

Every member of the team had a role today, and they all delivered.

Congrats to the U.S. Men's Gymnastics team and to Stephen Nedoroscik.

Well done.

05/25/2024

“A berm overlooking a pond in Vermont. The lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset. A seat on the subway. And something bad will have happened: You will have lost someone you loved, or failed at something at which you badly wanted to succeed. And sitting there, you will fall into the center of yourself. You will look for some core to sustain you. And if you have been perfect all your life and have managed to meet all the expectations of your family, your friends, your community, your society, chances are excellent that there will be a black hole where that core ought to be. I don’t want anyone I know to take that terrible chance. And the only way to avoid it is to listen to that small voice inside you that tells you to make mischief, to have fun, to be contrarian, to go another way. George Eliot wrote, ‘It is never too late to be what you might have been.’ It is never too early, either.”

—Anna Quindlen

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I am a Certified Speech Language Pathologist with over 20 years of experience helping people find their voice. My experience includes working with a multitude of ages and diagnoses in a variety of settings with particular interests in voice and spectrum disorders. I also enjoy working with actors, singers and public speakers. In addition to being a therapist, I am a teacher, coach, public speaker, child advocate and activist. But I didn’t always use my voice confidently, it was a long journey towards honoring myself.

Even though as a therapist I helped people rehabilitate their voice and speech, I had not yet learned to express myself fully and authentically. Through the years I played small, both professionally and personally—settling for less, not speaking up, allowing others to speak for me and compromising my truths to avoid “making waves.” I was misrepresented because I did not honor my true voice.

I often did not speak my truth or express my heart’s desires during my marriage. I didn’t feel important enough at the time because when I tried to speak up I was placated, ignored or dismissed. My needs came behind my spouse and children, yet I was yearning to be heard. I knew there was a powerful voice in me but I was scared that if I used it my spouse would feel threatened. While I vocally supported and advocated for my whole family, I was not speaking up for myself.

Then during our unpleasant, drawn out divorce I was poorly represented by multiple lawyers who were not listening to my needs or my insight, dragging me through an exhausting, painful process. They either didn’t believe me or couldn’t tell my story in a way that only I could. When the funds ran out, I began representing myself in court: once I found my voice, things finally turned around in my favor.