45. The One Where You Feel Safe to Speak Up with Elise Besler

Have you ever swallowed your words, softened your boundaries, or kept quiet to avoid conflict, only to feel exhausted afterward? In this powerful episode of The Fatigue Fixer, Dr. Sarah Vadeboncoeur sits down with Somatic Voice Coach Elise Besler to explore how self-silencing and holding back your truth can drain your energy more than you realize.

Elise shares the transformative practice of voice liberation: not about singing perfectly or speaking loudly, but about letting your truth move through your body instead of staying stuck. Together, they unpack why the voice is deeply connected to the nervous system, how suppression creates chronic tension and fatigue, and why using your voice (even through something as simple as humming) can help you feel more alive, grounded, and energized.

Whether you struggle to speak up at work, set boundaries, or express your needs in relationships, this episode offers compassionate insight and practical tools to help you reclaim your voice, one small step at a time.

What You’ll Learn:

What Voice Liberation Really Means
Why liberating your voice is less about performance and more about allowing energy, authenticity, and truth to flow through your body.

The Energetic Cost of Self-Silencing
How not speaking up can contribute to migraines, chronic fatigue, IBS, anxiety, PMS, and burnout and why your body responds this way.

Voice, Safety & the Nervous System
Why your voice shuts down when your nervous system doesn’t feel safe, and how creating “relative safety” can expand your capacity to speak up.

How to Build Capacity (Without Overwhelm)
The importance of titration: making small, tolerable shifts rather than forcing big, uncomfortable conversations.

The Healing Power of Singing
How singing, humming, or chanting can regulate your nervous system, release emotional tension, and reconnect you to yourself even if you don’t consider yourself a singer.

Why Using Your Voice Helps Fix Fatigue
Self-suppression is energetically expensive; expressing your truth frees up energy and helps your system relax.

Final Doctor’s Orders
Pick a song and sing it — in the car, in the shower, in your kitchen.
Pay attention to the shift.
Voice liberation starts exactly where you are.


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Elise Besler is a Somatic Voice Coach and healing practitioner who helps singers, speakers, and creatives reclaim and awaken their voices - so they can speak and sing their truth without fear and stress.

Through her signature coaching methodology Somatic Voice Liberation™, Elise helps her clients move beyond perfectionism, fear of being seen and heard, performance anxiety, and the old stories that whisper “you’re not good enough.”

Somatic Voice Liberation™ goes deeper than tips or tricks or quick fixes - it’s about making the lasting change to find safety in your body so your voice can finally be free. Elise has over two decades of experience as a coach, performer, educator, and award-nominated singer songwriter and educator. Her mission is simple: to help you remember that your voice is your power.

Instagram: @elisebesler
Website: elisebesler.com
Email: hello@elisebesler.com


Dr. Sarah Vadeboncoeur is a Naturopathic Doctor, mom, and fatigue fixer who’s on a mission to help women fix their fatigue and get the health care they deserve. You can find her talking about all things fatigue on Instagram and learn more about her services at drsarahv.ca.

The Fatigue Fixer is produced by Story Studio Network.