What Is Your Voice Hiding? Vibrational Voice Healing with Heather Schmid
Episode of Notes from the Edge · October 27, 2026 · 45 min
Lisa Lacy talks with opera singer Heather Schmid about vibrational voice healing, her emotional breakthrough filming Voice of the Earth, and releasing perfectionism.
Summary
Host Lisa Lacy interviewed Heather Schmid, a classically trained opera singer and creator of Vibrational Voice Healing, about the relationship between voice, trauma, and authentic self-expression. Schmid recounted how, while filming her documentary Voice of the Earth in the Azores, she began shaking and crying uncontrollably in front of a waterfall, an experience she described as an "ascension process" and which ultimately reshaped the film after her editor and filmmaking partner urged her to tell the true story.
Schmid argued that childhood criticism and cultural conditioning cause people to hide their voices, and that toning, humming, and somatic voice work can surface subconscious material more directly than the mind. She discussed her preference for 432 Hz tuning over the standard 440 Hz, cited the cymatics work of acoustic researcher John Stewart Reid, and claimed that nature's frequencies and inaudible ultrasound attune and heal the body. She also spoke of women collectively learning to believe themselves.
Schmid described how her healing journey strained her marriage to the point that the relationship had to dissolve and be rebuilt, and credited supportive women's circles. In Lacy's closing questions, Schmid said she had performed "beauty" to gain external validation after a difficult childhood with ADHD, and now teaches raw, deliberately unbeautiful vocal expression. She called for more conversation about the ascension process, which she said doctors often treat with SSRIs, while acknowledging there is no right or wrong path.
Chapters
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0:04Introduction of Heather Schmid
Lisa Lacy introduces the show and Heather Schmid's background as an opera singer and creator of Vibrational Voice.
- 2:47
Breakdown at the Azores waterfall
Schmid describes shaking and crying uncontrollably at a waterfall while filming her documentary.
- 5:26
Rewriting the story of 'I can't sing'
Schmid explains how criticism silences voices and how voice practice accesses hidden subconscious material.
- 11:19
432 Hz, cymatics and nature's frequency
Schmid discusses 432 Hz tuning and how nature raises the body's vibration, releasing stuck emotions.
- 15:14
Filming vulnerability and editing the truth
Schmid recounts crying throughout the shoot and initially resisting including it in the film.
- 19:28
Listening to the body and believing ourselves
Schmid talks about somatic healing, meditation, intuition, and women learning to believe themselves.
- 24:31
What the documentary shows
Schmid outlines Voice of the Earth's messages from nature and its discussion of vibration and ultrasound.
- 28:17
Relationships and the ripple effect
Schmid describes her marriage dissolving and being rebuilt and the importance of supportive women's circles.
- 34:43
Working with Heather
Schmid describes her one-on-one Vibrational Voice sessions and a winter solstice releasing ceremony.
- 38:40
Closing questions: performing beauty and the ascension process
Schmid reflects on performing beauty for validation and urges more conversation about the ascension process.
Key points
What was said, by whom, with the exact words. Timestamps jump to the moment.
- Heather Schmid
Schmid recounts that when she entered a waterfall in the Azores while filming, her whole body began physically shaking.
“I walked into this beautiful land and walked into this waterfall and my whole body started shaking, just physically shaking”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid says overcoming childhood criticism of one's voice starts with self-empathy and deciding to change the story.
“The first piece is acknowledging and understanding and having self-empathy. And then deciding to change the story”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid argues that the voice reaches the subconscious more truthfully than the mind, which can manipulate stories.
“it'll manipulate the story sometimes, but your heart and your voice is going to be telling the truth”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid claims the body raises its frequency to match the vibration of a natural place, forcing stuck emotions to release.
“as you come into nature and you are attuning to nature, your body will raise its frequency to meet the vibration of where you are”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid states that some research shows 432 Hz to be a healing frequency and that she personally feels more healing in it.
“some research has shown that 432 is the frequency... of healing. It's nature's frequency, as they say”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid says an initial edit that omitted her emotional breakdown failed because it did not tell the true story.
“okay, we made that movie and it didn't work because it wasn't the true story”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid says she had been meditating for two years before the waterfall, which prepared her body to release and hear.
“so I had been meditating for two years and then going to the waterfall that my body was ready to release that”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid argues that the time has come, particularly for women, to believe themselves despite cultural messages that they are too loud.
“the time has come particularly as women to to believe ourselves, to hear how we have been speaking to ourselves and truly believe ourselves”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid claims that inaudible ultrasound at waterfalls moves through the body and that John Stewart Reid has studies showing cellular healing.
“he even has these amazing studies where it shows the actual healing of your human cell as your body is raising these vibrations”
- Lisa Lacy
Lacy says that when people heal themselves, those around them either grow too or fall away, replaced by supportive people.
“the people in their life will rise up to meet them, right? They grow too. or they fall off”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid recounts that during her healing journey her relationship with her husband had to dissolve entirely and be rebuilt.
“My husband and I, relationship had to dissolve entirely and recreate from the ground. And Jesus, was that hard”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid says she performed beauty in tone and appearance to gain external validation she was not getting from herself.
“I saw that that was bringing acceptance from the world. That was that exterior validation that I wasn't getting from myself”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid describes her current voice practice as deliberately the opposite of beautiful singing, emphasizing raw expression.
“How ugly, how pure, how deep of a tone can you express that is not beautiful? It is raw. It is vulnerable”
- Heather Schmid
Schmid contends that physicians often prescribe SSRIs for what she considers an ascension healing process, while saying there is no wrong path.
“when you go to your doctor, he will give you SSRIs because he thinks that you can't manage your life”
People
In the conversation
- Lisa LacyHost of Notes from the Edge; writer, trauma educator, executive advisor, and transformational coach
- Heather SchmidClassically trained opera singer, international recording artist, and creator of Vibrational Voice Healing
Discussed
- John Stewart ReidAcoustic researcher known for work in cymatics, featured in Voice of the Earth
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From the publisher
What if your voice is still carrying the pain you never had permission to express? International recording artist, opera singer, and creator of Vibrational Voice Healing, Heather Schmid joins me to explore the connection between sound, trauma, emotional expression, and authenticity. Heather shares how an unexpected experience while filming her documentary Voice of the Earth transformed her understanding of her voice and herself. We explore how childhood conditioning, perfectionism, and the need for approval can silence our authentic expression. From sound frequencies and nervous system regulation to spiritual awakening and releasing old identities, this conversation goes far beyond singing. In this episode, we explore: How an emotional experience at a waterfall in the Azores changed Heather’s life and documentary. Why childhood criticism, judgment, and unresolved emotional experiences can silence our voices. The differences between 432 Hz and 440 Hz, cymatics, and Heather’s perspective on sound and vibration. How breathwork, humming, and somatic voice practices may support emotional expression and self-discovery. Breaking free from perfectionism, external validation, and the identities we perform to survive. Connect with Heather Schmid: https://www.heatherschmid.com Explore Vibrational Voice Healing and her documentary Voice of the Earth . Connect with Lisa | Inside the Edge: https://www.lisalacy.com/inside-the-edge Join our private membership for exclusive weekly episodes, monthly live experiences, and resources exploring trauma, identity, recovery, and authentic living. What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the Edge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
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