Voicing Grief

—the release and liberation tools you’ve been looking for to help you transform stuck emotions, lift the heavy weight from your heart and turn deep pain into wisdom

Your Grief has a voice. Are you listening?

We often hear that "time heals all wounds." But what if, instead of fading, your grief feels more intense with each passing moment of silence? What if, instead of healing, it's becoming a knot of unexpressed emotion, a weight you carry in your body?

The truth is, time doesn't heal—intentional release does.

Grief isn’t a silent journey. It's a human experience, and it needs your voice. So much of the time, grief stays trapped in our body because it feels overwhelming, too much to face. Grief comes in all shapes and sizes, from all over the place. We are always grieving something, whether it be the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a dream, or even the loss of a part of ourselves. Grief is heavy, and truly hard.

And sometimes, even when we long to release the tears, they simply won't come. Or they threaten to, only to retreat, leaving us feeling stuck and frustrated. This is a common experience, a sign that grief has become deeply embedded in our bodies. It's a testament to the fact that grief is not just an emotion, but a physiological reality.

What happens when grief is left unexpressed?

Your body becomes a storage unit for pain.

Emotions get trapped in your muscles, creating tension and discomfort. You might experience unexplained aches, pains, or a constant feeling of tightness, particularly in your throat and jaw, leading to headaches and a sense of constriction.

Your energy drains away and gets heavier.

Unexpressed grief can lead to persistent fatigue and exhaustion. You might feel like you're constantly dragging, heavy, and lacking the vitality and motivation to engage with life fully.

Your breath becomes shallow and restricted.

The very act of breathing, which should be a natural and life-affirming process, becomes strained. You might find yourself holding your breath, or taking short, shallow breaths, further restricting the flow of energy and emotion.

You lose connection with yourself.

Over time, unexpressed grief creates a distance between you and your self. You might feel like you're not truly present in your own life, or that you're simply going through the motions.

It doesn't simply disappear. Instead, it transforms into a heavy burden, a knot of unexpressed emotion that embeds itself in your very being.

Introducing: Voicing Grief

…a revolutionary workshop that uses your voice as a powerful vehicle for moving stuck emotions out of your body. Through a unique blend of science-backed techniques and somatic practices, you'll learn to transform stuck suffering into powerful, intentional release.

Here's how you will be guided on this journey:

Discover the Breath as an Emotional Gateway: Learn powerful breathwork techniques to unlock and release trapped emotions, regulate your nervous system, and access the wisdom held within your body.

Learn Powerful Somatic Sound Mapping Techniques: Identify and map the specific areas where grief is held in your body. This targeted approach allows you to develop personalized strategies for releasing tension and promoting deep relaxation. You'll explore resonance and learn how to concentrate vibration in specific areas of your body.

Transform Vocalization into a Healing Practice: Utilizing a specialized grief-to-voice toolbox to guide your practice, explore a range of vocal techniques and discover how to use your voice as an instrument of healing, restoring balance, and creating a sense of freedom.

Tap into the Wisdom of Subglottic Pressure and the "Dam Principle": Discover how to access your innate power to fuel your healing journey and move stubborn, heavy emotions out of your body. By understanding the "Dam Principle," you'll learn to generate the energy required to move those heavy emotions, even when you feel exhausted or depleted.

Master the Art of Working with Lumps and Stuck Points: Learn to navigate and move through the "lumps" and "stuck points" in your voice, transforming these obstacles into opportunities for growth and transformation. This is the path to liberating those tears that feel stuck, allowing your body's natural release mechanisms to engage fully.

With these simple yet powerful tools, you can find a gentle way through your grief, honoring your experience in a way that feels right for you.

What’s included:

  • A four-hour, in-person workshop experience

  • A personal toolkit of resources and techniques to support your grief journey

  • Practices designed to help you connect the dots between voice, emotion, and the body

  • A custom meditation track to help move grief out of your body in the comfort of your own space

  • A set of powerful breath and vocal liberation techniques to help release tension, unlock stuck energy, heal, and process emotion

  • A protocol for mapping grief in the body

  • A safe and supportive space for exploration and learning

  • dedicated time to honour your self, and your grief

Chelsea Edwardson: Your guide to transforming grief into wisdom

Chelsea Edwardson is an artist, vocal coach, and somatic explorer who bridges academic research, musical expression, and emotional healing. With a Masters in Ethnomusicology and extensive training in vocal performance, she has dedicated her life to understanding the profound connections between voice, emotion, and personal transformation.

With close to two decades of teaching experience, Chelsea creates transformative, safe spaces where voices can be acknowledged, expressed, and ultimately alchemized into personal wisdom and powerful truth. Her approach is rooted in the belief that what we teach must first be lived—a philosophy that infuses every aspect of her work.

Driven by a belief that true artistic expression emerges from deep emotional authenticity, Chelsea approaches voice as more than a technical skill. Her field research and writing on embodiment and alignment reflects her commitment to exploring the intricate relationships between physiological experience and emotional expression.

With over a decade of teaching experience, Chelsea creates transformative, safe spaces where voices can be acknowledged, expressed, and ultimately alchemized into personal wisdom and powerful truth. Her approach is rooted in the belief that what we teach must first be lived—a philosophy that infuses every aspect of her work.

As the creator of Voicing Grief, Chelsea offers a unique approach to understanding and processing grief through the voice. She believes in voice as medicine: a way to release stuck emotion, process experience, and find deeper meaning and purpose within the pain, ultimately offering a powerful pathway to personal growth and healing.

  • Hi! I’m Chelsea…

    Artist. Entrepreneur. Vocal Coach. Mentor. Creative Engineer. Pursuer of Truth.

    I use the concept of voice as a way to guide you in speaking your truth to cultivate a deeper, more meaningful -and aligned- relationship with yourself and your work.

    Sound has been my main medium of personal expression, however, the things I have learned through studying sound TRANSCEND the medium. What I have derived from my study of voice, music, and vibration is that it is just a vehicle for our essence, our identity to come through, and that our voice starts deep within us and is expressed through our everyday actions, our decor, our photographs, our business, our cooking, the way we move, and the way we communicate with others. I believe…

    You can transform lives with the sound of who you are.

  • My goal is to expand the definition of voice to include both aspects and use the term voice as a more holistic part of who we are, so that we can be more of ourselves. Through my specific training in the physiological aspect of the voice, I have had the privilege of making connections between these inner and outer worlds. Voice has been an incredible metaphor to me that has resulted in physical and emotional transformations I could’ve never imagined heading into this field.

    While I worked primarily as a voice, piano and songwriting coach for many years, I noticed that the biggest breakthroughs happened working on the psychological aspects of the voice and personal expression, and that changing the mindset or the mind maps could create tangible changes, without activating the motor skills needed to perform the action.

    This journey has extended into —and expanded— my teaching and way of thinking of voice in all the contexts and ways in which I use it.

  • You can read more here about my qualifications and background in voice.

Who this is for:

  • You're carrying the weight of any kind of unexpressed grief —including but not limited to: loss, unexpressed dreams, past mistakes, not feeling seen or heard, losing or re-integrating a lost part of yourself

  • You feel stuck in your grief, unable to move it out so that you can move forward

  • You want to complement therapy with more somatic, body-centered practices

  • You're curious about the mind-body connection and how emotions live in the body

  • You feel intuitively called to work with your voice to move through grief, or perhaps you are just curious about how it could help

  • You're seeking a safe and supportive space to explore the complexities of grief

What You'll Gain From This Experience:

A Clear Pathway to Release and Liberation: You'll gain a tangible sense of how these practices can help you move stuck emotions and better connect with yourself. You may even experience a sense of release and liberation simply by knowing that you now have a specific set of tools and a clearer understanding of how to navigate your grief journey with greater confidence and agency.

Deepened Self-Awareness: Through somatic practices and vocal exploration, you'll gain a deeper understanding of how grief lives in your body. You'll develop a heightened awareness of your emotional cues and specific signs or communication from your body, and learn to navigate them with compassion and skill.

Empowerment and Agency in Your Healing Journey: You'll discover that you have more agency than you think in your ability to heal and transform. By learning practical tools and techniques to move through grief, you will cultivate more resilience and have more possibility to turn your pain into purpose. You'll leave with a personalized toolkit to support your ongoing grief journey.

A Safe and Supportive Space for Exploration and Learning: You'll be held in a safe and supportive environment where you can freely explore your voice and breath without judgment or expectation. Making sound during the workshop is not required or necessary; you can explore this when you are ready, and that is part of creating safety. The focus will be on learning and practicing the techniques, with the understanding that deep emotional processing is most likely something you will choose to pursue in your own time and space.

A Renewed Sense of Hope and Connection: As you learn to navigate your grief through the power of your voice, you'll discover the courage to feel deeply and fully. You'll begin to see grief not as something to be feared or avoided, but as a sacred invitation to connect with your heart and embrace the full spectrum of human experience. This is the transformative power of vulnerability: the ability to turn pain into purpose, sorrow into strength, and loss into love. In this process, you'll find a deeper connection with yourself and others, born from the shared vulnerability of loss and the resilience of the human spirit.