![]() I’d heard for years that in order to heal, it was time to become One with our breath. I’d heard for years that we ARE our breath. I’d heard for years that everything starts with the Breath. I became stagnant, stiff, irritable, angry and just plain miserable. Maintaining this persona and hiding my pain literally stopped oxygen from flowing freely throughout my body. Having lived a good portion of my life gripped in fear and anxiety, my “inauthentic voice” began to take its toll on me. It was as if somehow in that breath, if I let it go, truly let it go, the whole world would fall apart in front of me. It caused me to hold my breath a lot and I’d often forget to breathe to the point of passing out. Being soft spoken was my way of disappearing and staying safe. You could hear it in my breath before I’d even speak because my abdomen would be trembling. ![]() Over the years I had created a soft, high-pitched voice that was full of fear. I felt silenced as a child and learned that I couldn’t speak up for myself without getting in trouble. – Trina Watton (President, Co-Founder of Blumvox Studios)Īs I reflect on Making Friends with My Voice, which is such a huge part of Steve’s Voiceover Training, I must admit that it has been an extreme challenge for me throughout most of my life. You have given us a platform to share ourselves with you and it’s been a true honor. I’d like to thank those of you that have been with us since the beginning (The OG!) and would also like to thank those of you that are new to our community. Over these next few months you’ll see some of our Team “voices” here in the Blog, and we hope that you’ll get as much benefit from them as our Voiceover Training students and VMD subscribers have. While some of you may not relate (yet!) to the voiceover actor making friends with his voice, you MAY relate to the experiences of those of us on his Team. ![]() The following is an excerpt from our March 2018 issue of the VMD, entitled “Making Friends with Your Voice”. We decided as a Team recently that we’d like to make some of the VMD content available to the general public. If you’re interested in learning more about it, you can find the info here. There’s A LOT of work that goes into each issue, and you get the newsletter for free when you become a student of Steve’s Voiceover Training course. We wanted to create a place for you to come and chill with us, read with us, laugh with us and even cry with us. “The Voice Monkey Dispatch” newsletter is my favorite part of Blumvox Studios. As a result, this has given us the ability to build our foundation of BVS from the Heart up. We had no idea what it was going to look like or how it was going to unfold, but we did know that if we said yes to the Vision, it would happen! Each one of our Team members has been writing a monthly column for almost a year now and we’ve dedicated ourselves to being real, authentic, genuine and honest. During our first Blumvox Studios Team Meeting (nearly two years ago!), when we were deciding how best to deliver Voiceover Training to the world, we collectively came together and said that we wanted to create a newsletter to support our students.
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