Healing Your Voice: The Courage to Share the Story Only You Can Tell

I meet so many people who want to use their voice, they long to use their voice in some way, and yet there's something that holds them back.

The fear of what other people will think.

The fear of the judgment that will come if they use their voice.

If they say the wrong thing or aren't good enough.

But that longing to use your voice is there for a reason.

It comes from the center of you.

It comes from your soul.

And yet so often we let life get in the way.

We allow other people's opinions about our voice to rule whether or not we use it.

I had a longing to use my voice from such a young age.

I loved to sing.

And I remember this moment when I was standing on the stones of the fireplace singing Happy Birthday and feeling so overjoyed to be using my voice to celebrate someone in our family.

I also remember judging my voice when I got into voice lessons and How I couldn't sing like those people and I couldn't do that trill that that person could.

And I never really focused on what my own voice could do and the gifts that my voice had.

Don't we all do that? We compare ourselves to other people.

to the people that we are not like, to the voices that we don't have, instead of really spending our attention and time developing and cultivating our own beautiful, unique voice.

Often, we have a lot of locks put upon our voices, wrapped around our throats that keep our voice quiet.

But your voice must be released.

Releasing your voice and using the voice you were given is a part of what you're here to do.

When you open your mouth and allow your expression to come through or reach for the pen and allow the expression to come through or stand on that stage and move and allow your expression to come through or grab that paintbrush and allow the expression to come through, magic happens.

healing happens.

You were born to create.

You were born to say something to share your story to sing your song.

And if nobody ever taught you how to do that, or nobody allowed you to do that, or somebody told you that you weren't good enough, then I want you to hear me today.

I want you to hear me loud and clear.

I meet so many people who want to use their voice, they long to use their voice in some way, and yet there's something that holds them back.

The fear of what other people will think.

The fear of the judgment that will come if they use their voice.

If they say the wrong thing or aren't good enough.

But that longing to use your voice is there for a reason.

It comes from the center of you.

It comes from your soul.

And yet so often we let life get in the way.

We allow other people's opinions about our voice to rule whether or not we use it.

I had a longing to use my voice from such a young age.

I loved to sing.

And I remember this moment when I was standing on the stones of the fireplace singing Happy Birthday and feeling so overjoyed to be using my voice to celebrate someone in our family.

I also remember judging my voice when I got into voice lessons and How I couldn't sing like those people and I couldn't do that trill that that person could.

And I never really focused on what my own voice could do and the gifts that my voice had.

Don't we all do that? We compare ourselves to other people.

to the people that we are not like, to the voices that we don't have, instead of really spending our attention and time developing and cultivating our own beautiful, unique voice.

Often, we have a lot of locks put upon our voices, wrapped around our throats that keep our voice quiet.

But your voice must be released.

Releasing your voice and using the voice you were given is a part of what you're here to do.

When you open your mouth and allow your expression to come through or reach for the pen and allow the expression to come through or stand on that stage and move and allow your expression to come through or grab that paintbrush and allow the expression to come through, magic happens.

healing happens.

You were born to create.

You were born to say something to share your story to sing your song.

And if nobody ever taught you how to do that, or nobody allowed you to do that, or somebody told you that you weren't good enough, then I want you to hear me today.

I want you to hear me loud and clear.