Remember the True Story of Who You Are

Sometimes finding your Voice means that you have to let go of old internal stories and narratives that can make you feel like your Voice is muffled or invisible.  We hold these old stories in our minds and sometimes even in our bodies. 

Anytime we internalize the idea that it’s not safe or okay to be who you are and how you are, the body literally experiences that as trauma.  Obviously, it’s not the same as some of the big, life-threatening traumas that we sometimes experience in life.  And yet, the body responds to messages that disconnect us from the value of who we are and the power of our Voice, in almost the same way.

Having your authentic Voice denied repeatedly actually causes your brain to store the pattern of this experience.  Your hippocampus goes on high alert anytime it perceives that you might be under threat of being re-traumatized and you experience stress.  You also often react to life events in such a way that you take action that “protects” your Voice.

Usually that means we deny our Voice and, often, the purpose of our Voice.

This is one of the hidden reasons why we often procrastinate, fail to follow through, or fear the expression of our creative power. This is why being creative is often vulnerable.

But, the creative journey also has the potential to be a tremendously healing journey. 

Finding your Voice and committing to expressing yourself authentically into the world is a profound reclaiming process that helps you not only help others, but also to remember the true story of Who You Are.

This week I invite you to contemplate the following list of reasons why we deny our Voice.  Explore through journaling whether any of these themes are holding you back from stepping into the power of that once-in-a-lifetime-Cosmic-event that is You and your beautiful and powerful Voice.

Use the following journal prompt to start your exploration: 

What needs to be healed, released, aligned, and brought to my awareness for me to rewrite the part of my story that is still carrying the energy of ________________________________ ?

Listen carefully as I read this list of possible things you might want to put in that blank and feel whether any of this is true for you….

• Over giving and rescuing
• Disorganization and chaos
• Denying myself and what I want and need
• Perceiving aging as devaluation
• Failing my mission
• Not valuing my dreams, my values, and my standards
• Adapting to the expectations of others
• Struggle
• Martyrdom
• Facades and false faces
• Feeling responsible for other people’s feelings
• Losing myself
• Trauma
• Manipulation
• Spiritual warfare
• Lack consciousness
• The patriarchy and oppression
• Compliance out of fear
• Self-Doubt
• Bullying
• Lies I tell myself

• Lies others tell about me
• Disempowerment
• Denying my wisdom
• Seeing rest as weakness
• Seeing rest as laziness
• Not seeing my own value enough to nurture myself
• Not honoring my own energy
• Not being in integrity with who I am
• Not feeling free
• The fear of prosecution
• The fear of being judged
• The fear of losing my loved ones
• Old vows and promises that are no longer valid
• Denying the power of my own words and my own story
• Feeling abandoned
• Feeling abandoned by God
• Losing my connection to nature
• Not trusting God
• Not believing in myself

Obviously, you may also fill in your own “blank” with whatever feels relevant to you. 

Here’s to unleashing the true power of your unique and relentlessly authentic Voice and telling the true story of who you really are!
May