Trauma breaks you at your core. It leaves you feeling void, giving room for your spirit and mind to become cluttered with external projections of the world, the opinions and thought processes of others, and pent-up emotions that either have nowhere to go or splatter everywhere. Where will your voice be found amid the chaos or when the storm settles? Sometimes it feels like there is no hope, but your voice holds the candlelight waiting for you to strengthen its light.

Learning to trust ourselves is a journey towards the simple clarity of who we have always been. Divine beings of light experiencing life.

learning to recognize your true voice: It is not the one that belittles harshly, it is not the one that confuses. Your true voice is rooted in love, of self and others. It's the one that encourages, supports, validates, and uplifts in kindness and truth. Learning to recognize your inner voice begins with small steps to set aside the voices of trauma that have ruled your mind for so long. It's choosing the softer, gentler sentence over and over and over again. This might make the trauma voices louder, and more persistent at times. This is because those energies still desire to hold your voice captive, and your voice is yearning for your attention- that is where it gains its freedom. This is the art of recognizing your voice. P.S. Your true voice is also humorous, sarcastic, playful, serious and every divine expression in between, and it's all yours.

What role does attention play in recognizing our voice? We develop a strong energetic relationship with what holds our attention. Therefore, if our attention is given to other voices over our own, as we learned to do early in childhood, we weaken the energetic connection between our voice and intuition. After a lifetime of conditioning to give our attention to external voices, places, and things it takes practice to draw our attention inwards. Especially if you have experienced childhood trauma and learned to place the needs of others before you, or became hyper-sensitive to the moods of others to create a sense of safety and connection. (Side note: the world around you did not do a good job in rightly loving you as a child, and though it is not okay, you are now and have always been more than okay and INHERENTLY WORTHY)

...To be continued ....