The Me I Didn’t See
This book brings together fifteen voices, each offering a distinct perspective on self-expression, inner truth and change.
My chapter explores the relationship between voice, safety and the body, drawing on lived experience and years of working closely with women.
Finding Your Way to Your Authentic Voice
Chapter Two
This chapter explores what happens when a woman learns, often very early in life, that it is not safe to speak. Over time, her voice becomes something to manage rather than trust, and that loss does not stay confined to communication. It settles in her body.
Drawing on lived experience and years of working closely with women, I explore how suppressed self-expression shows up as hypervigilance, exhaustion and disconnection from inner signals. What is often labelled as a lack of confidence is revealed instead as a nervous system shaped by the need to stay safe.
This is not a call to become louder or more assertive. It is an invitation to restore trust in the voice that already exists. When a woman is met without judgement and without being rushed to fix herself, the body softens, the nervous system settles and something essential begins to return.
Reclaiming your voice is not an act of rebellion.
It is an act of return.
