Your shoulders answer the question before your mouth does.

Your body responds faster than your words and it does not consult you first. The set of your shoulders, where your eyes go, how long the pause runs, all of it has already told the room something while you were still choosing a sentence. People read it accurately even when they could not say what they read.

Notice your own posture in the moments before you speak this week, especially when something is hard. If you have tightened, take one breath and let the shoulders drop before you answer. It changes the tone of what comes out, and sometimes it changes what you decide to say.