How do I make my resonance brighter ?

[ voice clip : https://voca.ro/1iCaTLNivI2g ( excuse the crappy mic lol 😭 ) ]

so I used to voice train a lot last year but I got very depressed because of issues with my life and I quit and just bedrotted for months on end but now that I’m coming back to it for the first time in ages I’ve forgotten a lot of things, but mostly how to make and maintain my size/R1 small, I’ve tried the throat flicks, the relaxed throat method Selene teaches and the swallow and hold ( yeah I know 😭 ) method but i still can’t quite reach that goal resonance where I don’t sound like a man imitating a breathy valleygirl, any tips ?

[ TLDR; R1/size doesn’t sound quite female, plz help ]