Finding my voice
gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.
Finding my voice
Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.
rayne fisher-quann • no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid,... See more
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
Create a clearing
WePresent | Holley Murchison’s guide to talking about yourself
wepresent.wetransfer.com
So..’tell me about yourself’ is a question we’ve all gotten, and most of us dread answering.
Doesn’t have to be that way.
Holley Murchison a social entrepreneur, created this free online experience (among other material) to help people learn how to introduce themselves more effectively - and in my opinion more authentically and in a way that feels empowering vs people pleasingy.
when we stop rejecting who we are, there is freedom from the known. This freedom cultivates a space for a the meeting of who we truly are. The mind has to fall apart, for the heart to fall into place.
Good old Ricky Rubin
I am wired to fear my own breaking free.
When I stop to examine the major crossroads of my own life, it seems that the impelling force behind the direction of travel has almost always been intuitive, even accidental, without any serious consideration given as to whether it was the right decision or not. But accompanying those vague, arbitrary decisions was an intense commitment and... See more
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"It's become a courageous act to love who you are."
Duke Stump
Duke Stump