Finding my true voice.

Recently I’ve had a number of people commenting about how open and honest I am in my interactions with other people: friends, family, coworkers, and most everyone I meet. Others have been sharing their belief that I have an underused talent for writing and speaking and sharing my perspective on the world. If I’m honest though, I often feel like I struggle to find my voice. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t struggle to speak, or write, or to share something I feel strongly about. But, what I often struggle with is identifying exactly what my personal voice is. What the big unique thing is that I can offer the world. I’m great at seeing it in others. I’m horrible at identifying it in myself. I said as much to a good friend of mine earlier this week. She laughed, congratulated me for acknowledging that, and gave me homework. She’d been in a similar place once, and someone had guided her through an exercise to become more introspective and self-aware. It involves a single word a week and a challenge to write a poem about how that word impacts me. I accepted her challenge and have decided to do it publicly. Writing this way, being completely vulnerable and introspective, is really hard for me. It may take me more than a week to write these and I have no idea what this series of exercises is going to become, but I’m in.

Read everything in the “Finding My Voice” series:
1. Empower (10/30/2019)
2. Strength (11/7/2019)
3. Empathy (11/24/2019)
4. Pain (01/25/2020)
5. Peaceful (03/23/2020)
6. Power (05/14/2020)
7. Alone (12/26/2020)

Stay tuned….