As a kid I always used to try and sound or be like someone else. I wanted to sing like someone else, I wanted to dance like someone else, I wanted to look like someone else, I wanted to be someone else.  I don’t know what it was about me that so deeply and innately struggled with even liking myself.  I wanted to be accepted and I never felt accepted by those closest to me.  I always felt like I had to put on airs and prove who I was—and I was still left behind.  When all those people left and I was truly on my own, the real struggle began because I didn’t have my own voice.  I had to learn to use it again.  I had to learn what it sounded like to declare who I was/am.  I had to learn what it felt like to stop giving into people and stand my own ground.  I think that’s where the power plays came in in my life—I was so tired of people walking over me and talking over me that I became an aggressive control freak.  It took me a long time to understand the point of finding our voices: it’s to learn, acknowledge, and honor our own sound.  We find our voice like we find our own skin.  As we get comfortable with the sound, we get more comfortable in who we are.

When we find our own voices we can sing our own song.  Trying to be someone else and spending our time trying to be like someone else only inhibits who we are from showing.  We hide a lot of greatness and meany people let time slip by them being who people told them to be or simply ignoring that inner voice that guides them to who they are supposed to be.  The universe wants to hear us and all we’ve been doing is trying to copy someone else’s tone, someone else’s story.  We do it to protect ourselves so the core of who we are isn’t rejected.  But sometimes the very thing we are holding onto that we think is keeping us safe is the weight that holds us down.  It isn’t until we are drowning that we can tell what helps and what hinders us.  We need to let go of what hinders us so we can stop the struggle and swim.  When we hear that calling, we know need to do something different.  We need to trust that even if it’s different, even if it’s scary that we are meant to be where we are.  Our voices and our stories are meant to be heard.  We no longer need to hide behind anyone else or copy someone else—we can stand in our own power and focus on what makes us who we are—the things that make us great come from that voice. 

We are given unique thoughts, feelings, desires, talents, and voices so we are able to resonate with the frequency of who we are in the universe.  There is no sound like our own and even if we harmonize with others, we still have our individual patterns.  Don’t lose that and don’t forget our uniqueness because we are uncertain about whether or not our true voice will be accepted.  The universe can’t hear us if we are disguising ourselves.  Stepping into our power simply looks like sharing our sound and ideas and allowing the beat of our heart call to and respond to what is meant for us.  We struggle behind the identity we create instead of allowing who we are to flourish.  Until we learn to swim we will feel like we are drowning with the weight we thought would save us—it’s not a life raft, it’s a lead shield.  Stop trying to be someone else and simply allow who we are to shine through.  All that is meant to be will come because it has no choice but to respond to the frequency inside.  We are all worth sharing that voice.  The universe wants to hear us sing.