Voice Notes With Elise Besler

Uninvited Comments: Body Shame and Finding Your Voice Again

In this episode of Voice Notes With Elise, we’re exploring the complex, often unspoken relationship between body image, voice, and visibility.
You’ll hear three raw and relatable voice notes:🌀 Two women navigating the impact of uninvited comments about their bodies🌀 One woman questioning whether her body is a barrier to opportunities in her industry
Through a nervous system - informed, anti - diet culture lens, Elise unpacks how shame lives in the body, how it shapes the way we speak (or stay silent), and what it takes to reclaim your voice in a world that teaches you to shrink.
This isn’t about appearance.It’s about survival, self-expression, and the long journey back to embodied belonging.🎤 Leave an anonymous voice note for future episodes HERE🌿 FREE "Find Your Voice" audio training HERE🛜 Check out Elise's website HERE👯‍♀️ Follow Elise on IG HERE

The Truth About Performance Anxiety: What Singers and Creatives Need To Know

Why does your voice disappear when all eyes are on you?This episode explores the deeper roots of performance anxiety—not just as fear of being seen, but as a survival response shaped by your nervous system, trauma history, and unspoken expectations.
Elise responds to three vulnerable voice notes:
A singer who cries every time she sings (but it’s not emotional).
A speaker who freezes just before corporate presentations.
A chronic over-preparer who can’t stop rehearsing for fear of getting it “wrong.”
You’ll walk away with a new lens on your performance fear—one that’s rooted in compassion, embodiment, and voice liberation.
What We Cover
The biology behind stage fright (not just psychology)
Why over-preparing is often a trauma response, not perfectionism
How voice work can re-pattern old shutdown habits
What to do when your body reacts before you can stop it
🎤 Leave an anonymous voice note for future episodes HERE 🌿 FREE "Find Your Voice" audio training HERE 🎧 Grab the Performance Anxiety Toolkit for $7 HERE 🛜 Check out Elise's website HERE 👯‍♀️ Follow Elise on IG HERE
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Why Vulnerability Feels So Risky - How To Find Your Voice In Relationships

What if vulnerability isn’t weakness  ~ but the moment your power actually returns?
In this episode, we explore the tender territory of having vulnerable conversations and choosing to stay with yourself in personal relationships. You’ll hear two honest voice notes from folks navigating emotional exposure with partners and possible partners.
You’ll also hear Elise’s soulful responses rooted in nervous system wisdom combined with that "Big - Sister - I - See - You - Energy" AND... get a first listen of her debut track “I Got My Power” from her upcoming album, Affirmation Jams. 
🎤 Leave an anonymous voice note for future episodes HERE🌿 FREE "Find Your Voice" audio training HERE🛜 Check out Elise's website HERE👯‍♀️ Follow Elise on IG HERE
If you want to listen to I Got My Power again, revisit this episode OR, head over to Elise's YouTube Channel HERE and spin it on repeat! If this episode resonated with you, please consider leaving a 5-star ⭐️ review and sharing it with someone who might need to hear it. Your support helps bring this work to more people reclaiming their voice.

The Weight of Generational Silence: How To Reclaim Your Voice

Why does your voice shake when you try to speak up? This episode explores how silence can be inherited ~ and how learning to use your voice can become the healing your entire lineage needs. You’ll hear two powerful voice notes from folks looking for support with this very thing, 2 soulful and supportive responses, PLUS, a healing ancestral chant to help you reconnect to your sound.🎤 Leave an anonymous voice note for future episodes HERE 🌿 FREE "Find Your Voice" audio training HERE 🛜 Check out Elise's website HERE 👯‍♀️ Follow Elise on IG HEREIf this episode felt supportive for you, please consider leaving a 5 star ⭐️ review on this platform and sharing it with a friend or loved one that could benefit from hearing this message. Your support helps this work get to the people who need to hear it most!

Welcome to Voice Notes! (Trailer)

What if the thing you needed most wasn’t advice…but someone to say, “Hey ~ I see you. You’re not crazy. You’re just carrying a lot.”
That’s the heart of this show.
Welcome to Voice Notes ~ the podcast for anyone who’s ever lost their voice in a high-stakes moment, spiralled after speaking up, or felt their whole body panic at the thought of being truly seen.
Each episode, somatic voice coach and nervous system educator Elise Besler responds to anonymous voice notes from real people navigating the tender, messy space between silence and self-expression.
We talk about:
Why your voice disappears when it matters most
What performance anxiety actually is (hint: it’s not in your head)
How people-pleasing, freeze, and fawning show up in your sound
And how to come back to your voice ~ without abandoning yourself
You’ll hear responses that weave together applied neurology, somatic wisdom, and spiritual truth… all grounded in compassion, real talk, and zero shame.
This isn’t self-help. This is self-return.And if you’ve been craving a space where your voice can be messy, honest, and whole ~ you’re in the right place.
🎤 Got something to say? Leave an anonymous voice note at the link below and Elise may feature it in a future episode.
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