Christie Block • Transgender Voice Specialist

07/23/2023

www.speechvoicelab.com/blog/start-and-end-well/7/23/2023

Maintaining your chosen voice techniques can be challenging at any level of your gender affirming voice process. Are you starting to practice talking, and find it mentally challenging to think of what to say while also modifying how you sound? Have you practiced a lot but find it hard to get started

12/15/2021

https://christie-block-lzjg.squarespace.com/blog/tracking-your-voice-in-real-life/10/27/2021?p

Have you noticed how your voice and communication can change depending on the situation? How do you talk to a coworker, boss, classmate, friend, family member, coffee shop barista, or pet? What words do you use? How does your voice sound? How is your pitch and how do you move it around? How loud or

01/03/2021

www.speechvoicelab.com/blog/strained-or-tired-voice-sing-through-a-straw/1/2/2021

Straw phonation, or making sound through a straw, is a common therapeutic exercise for vocal health problems such as vocal strain or tired voice. These symptoms can occur for a number of reasons, including strenuously modifying the voice for gender presentation, starting testosterone, speaking too m

04/14/2020

https://www.speechvoicelab.com/blog/voice-tips-when-stuck-at-home/4/14/2020

In this unsettling time of the Coronavirus pandemic, many of us are homebound and managing very difficult circumstances in varying degrees related to health, finances, isolation or lack of privacy, and/or family or work obligations. Whatever our particular stressors are, they can, at the very least,

07/25/2019

https://www.speechvoicelab.com/blog/free-workshops-in-july/7/3/2019

For anyone who is going to the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference this year (July 25 - 27, 2019 - https://www.mazzonicenter.org/trans-wellness ), come on by to work on your voice and share voice ideas at one of my voice workshops! It can be a very empowering experience to discuss and practice y

05/22/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/20/what-does-a-woman-sound-like-vocal-training-helps-trans-women-find-their-voices

Achieving a higher voice can be essential to embracing a female identity, and it can serve as a cloak of protection from bias and bigotry

08/29/2018

https://www.speechvoicelab.com/blog/getting-feedback-on-your-voice/8/29/2018

Knowing exactly how your voice sounds is critical for modifying it in ways that work for you. But let's face it, it can be hard to know how you sound outside your own head. And it can be scary and uncomfortable to hear yourself or embarrassing to get feedback. Also, your brain's sensory awareness is

07/11/2018

I will be presenting again this year at the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference - one workshop on masculine voice and one workshop on feminine voice. I hope to see you there! How to Be Expressive in a Masculine Voice, Friday, August 3, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00 pm Do you have difficulty sounding exci

07/10/2018

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