Beyond Stoicism: The Next Golden Works to Rise from Antiquity
Those that contend with Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations *This post contains affiliate links. I was 15 when I first read Meditations by...
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Jun 25, 2021
- 6 min
The Unsung Story of a Band of Gay Warriors That Decimated The Fiercest Army The World Had Known
How the Sacred Band of Thebes Changed History
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- May 5, 2020
- 9 min
What Crocodiles and Humans Have in Common
For a lizard to breathe, it must be stationary. Why is this so? The reason is that the intercostal and thoracic muscles that are...
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Apr 18, 2020
- 7 min
How a Wrongfully Convicted Man Became my Mentor
A single letter to Rubin “Hurricane” Carter changed my life. I was throwing a letter out to sea in a corked bottle, in the hope the universe
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Apr 17, 2020
- 13 min
The Voice Keeps The Score
What your voice says about your experiences We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is...
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Apr 11, 2020
- 6 min
The Limits of Your Voice: How to Appreciate What You Sound Like and Deal With Frustration
Trees don’t live in the sky, and clouds don’t swim in the salt seas, and fish don’t leap in wheat fields, blood isn’t found in wood, nor...
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Apr 11, 2020
- 3 min
How Stress Affects Your Voice: The Freeze Response
Read Chapter One here. There is one other autonomic response that affects your voice (typically without you realizing) and that’s what...
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Apr 11, 2020
- 3 min
How Stress Affects Your Voice: Beginning With the Body & Biology
Much like the pain you experience in the throat when crying (known as the globus sensation), we often experience pain and tension in the...
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Apr 11, 2020
- 4 min
Why Your Throat Hurts When You Cry
When we hold our breath to prevent feeling too much this closes the vocal folds and narrows the vocal tract...
Andrei Schiller-Chan
- Dec 23, 2018
- 7 min
To You, the Struggling Artist: The sacrifices made in the fulfilment of Bliss
Responsibility has always demanded sacrifice, and it stretches back through the ages weaving its complicated labyrinth around the...