Speak Your
Voice
”Stupid,”
”Wrong answer,” “Not relevant” were the responses I usually got when I tried to
speak up in class. Or I was simply
ignored. Over time, my voice began disappearing. It became less and less
audible as my internal fear of receiving a harsh reaction and being ridiculed
grew.
During my school
years, I had speech therapy multiple times to help me raise my voice. The goal
was that my classmates and others could simply hear what I said. I learned to
articulate more clearly, to use my body to put more sound into my voice. And
yes, it did help in the therapy sessions. But it didn’t raise my voice or made
it clearer outside of the safe place in the therapist’s office. Speech therapy
tackled the mechanical aspects of my voice issues, but it didn’t address the
emotional issues – my extremely low self-esteem and my anxiety. And these were
the main reasons my voice had shut down.
I used to
believe I was an introvert. Today, I love networking. I used to think I
couldn’t speak in front of others, today I love speaking and teaching around
the world. The shift came when I started to work on my limiting beliefs, my
anxiety issues and the deep emotional blocks created by my teacher and others
who bullied me over the years. I did it, and you can, too.
Internal fears
and blocking beliefs will define how you show up in your life today. When you
choose to work through these blocks, you start to show up differently and can
create a different life. As one of my clients said: “With my old belief, I
would have taken the boring job as a sales assistant well inside my comfort
zone.” Instead, she went for the other offer as a project manager for a
major event. Before she was able to take that decision, she had to work on her
low self-esteem and the belief that nobody would listen to her. Today, she is
happy in her job and can’t believe that she ever considered taking the sales
assistant job.
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