How to Find Your Voice

How do you find your voice?

What I mean by this question is how do you speak the truth in your soul in a way that will be understood? How do you do this, when for so long that deep voice within you has been silenced?

The answer is simply to begin.

You will not get it “right” right away. You will not suddenly and perfectly say everything that you need to say in just the right way so as to make the difference you came here to make.

This is not how it works.

Your truth has been covered by the stories of your upbringing and the culture around you. It has been muddled and jumbled and mixed with many other people’s voices that for most of your life have been louder than your own.

To speak your own truth clearly once you have gotten in touch with it yourself, simply begin speaking, and adjust as you go.

Speak and notice what continues to resonate with you once it is out in the world. Keep those pieces and discard the rest. Be willing to be a little messy. Be willing to be confusing. Be willing to be misunderstood.

Be willing to rewrite. Rework. Refine. Say it again another way.

This is how it is done. There is no other way.

There will be sentences that feel like ecstasy. There will be those that land just as you hoped and the eyes of your reader or listener light up with understanding and possibility of their own.

There will be those moments of divine resonance. Let them guide you towards what is truly yours to share.

Let the rest fall away without the slightest of care.

Give yourself permission to speak your truth as best you know how, right now. And then do the same thing again tomorrow, and the tomorrows after that.

This is the way. There is no other way. You will not figure it all out in your head and get it just right when you begin.

To find your voice you must use it. To speak your truth you must speak it. To live your soul’s story you must live it.

You must be willing to risk. You must be willing to fumble. You must be a tad the fool.

Let me say this again: There is no other way.

There truly is no other way.

So, begin now.  Love yourself through it.

Your voice is needed.

There is not a moment to lose.

Xo,

Danielle