A voice in my head shouted “No one cares what you have to say.” 

Even after 16 years in business, this voice still yells at me from time-to-time. 

One day I’m on fire. Unstoppable. The next, it’s back to the depths of grief and shame. 

My Soul knows my purpose and is ready and waiting to live it out through human me during my time on this earth. 

My conscious mind says, “This Soulful Speaking movement is SUPER IMPORTANT, so I will take the steps necessary to make my vision real.” 

But my subconscious mind is … not … on … board!

Then my Soul Suckers jump in and attempt to protect me from all my subconscious mind’s fears in the weirdest way: By judging, demeaning and belittling me. 

A few weeks ago I took my own Soul Sucker quiz. 

I got the Below-the-Belt-Bastards. 

(They’re the meanest, deepest Soul Sucker.) 

There’s always a kernel of truth in the Soul Suckers’ messages. 

A KERNEL. Not the whole truth. 

The kernel of truth for the Below-the-Belt-Bastards is somebody, somewhere doesn’t, or didn’t, want to hear what we have to say. 

That can be anything from a simple “some people are not my clients” to not being heard by someone in our pasts as children.

I get triggered by people who don’t really listen to me. People who don’t understand. 

Especially men. 

Maybe those things trigger us because it’s long past time to dismantle the hold patriarchy has on women’s voices. The way it silences us. 

While I don’t have any conscious memories of this, I also have a feeling that at some point during my childhood my father was really tired or really busy and did not understand or really even hear what I said. 

When people don’t truly listen, I feel like the world just got pulled out from under my feet. 

Yet here I am. Speaking. Putting myself out there. Sharing my magic with the world. 

If you’re thinking, “Who am I to speak?”

And yet there’s another part tugging at you, with thoughts like 

I’m feeling called.
I have this urge. 

YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE. 

Speaking is a spiritual journey with the power to heal. 

One of the ways to heal our throat chakra stuff is to give ourselves what others didn’t. 

To have the courage to say “yes” to the part of us that whispers, “I’m feeling called to speak, to be seen, to share a message, to share my story.” 

Even when it doesn’t make sense to our oh so human, logical minds. 

Because the truth is 

Someone, somewhere DOES want to hear what you have to say. 

In fact, far, far more people want to than don’t. 

They’re out there waiting for you to say it. 

Take the quiz now  and find out which Soul Sucker you need to release to free your voice. 
With passion & love,
Lauri