From Private Pages to Public Stage: Embracing My Voice as a Writer
I have always been someone who loves writing. But I’ve never considered myself a writer. I have always done it naturally as a way to express myself but kept it private. Any stories, poems, or just long-form thoughts and the countless notebooks I’ve accumulated over the years have just been a place to hold the abundance of overwhelming ideas and emotions daily life brings. Something I’ve never even given a second thought, or aspirations of being anything other than a form of personal expression and reflection. Something for me. Nothing more. However, over the years, more than once I’ve had teachers or friends ask why I don’t do it in a more serious way. Perhaps I was so obsessed with music that I never even considered giving my attention to a different form of art seriously. Recently, I have been doing a lot of inner work through a mastermind program for women. There, I had an encounter with someone that brought this topic back to the front of my mind. She asked: “Do you write?” a...