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Your Throat Is a Crime Scene (And Your Voice Has Been Filing Missing Persons Reports)

Or: Why Chad From Marketing Has Been Talking Over Your Ancestors For Centuries

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Dea Devidas
Mar 06, 2025
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Let’s be honest: your throat is probably a crime scene of inherited silence patterns. That soft tissue between your jaw and your collarbones has witnessed more suppression than all of Shakespeare’s tragedies combined. It’s been clenched, swallowed around, and stuffed with words you never got to say across generations of “keep quiet” and “know your place.”

Your vocal cords remember every truth that got swallowed before it could become sound. Your cervical vertebrae hold the shape of every “no” that got compressed into a smile. Your throat is not blocked. It’s FULL.

The good news? Your vagus nerve is available for the renovation project of your voice. And it doesn’t require cosmic lightning or past-life regression. It requires mechanics.

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Your throat is basically a filing cabinet where your nervous system stored the receipts from every time someone told you to be quieter, smaller, more palatable. From your great-grandmother who learned that speaking up meant danger, to those excruciatin…

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