Hear me

Someone once said, ~You’re voice matters. Even if your hands shake and your heart races, speak up. Your thoughts, feelings and truth deserve to be heard. The world doesn’t just need loud voices, it needs your voice, your story, your perspective. Don’t let fear silence you. Stand tall, share your truth and believe in your words. You never know who needs to hear what only you can say.~ If you think about it, a number of individuals have dealt or are dealing with some sort of mental, emotional, and/or physical trauma to the point where there’s a tremendous amount of difficulty in putting into words what one is going/went through without completely falling apart. For it’s certainly an inner roller coaster type of situation indeed when someone has so much to say, but can’t quite seem to have it properly articulated, which is considered an absolutely overwhelming experience to say the least.

Without a doubt, when a person goes through some painful inner turmoil it can in some way feel like you’re trying to keep your head above water while dealing with wave after wave crashing over you. Essentially, the crashing waves represent something unresolved you’ve possibly been struggling to overcome so much so it has felt like you’re constantly being slapped by the hauntingly cold, watery reminder of finally bringing some much needed closure to those issues. Although you’re doing your best in the beginning in “treading water” and working things out, the weight of your thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions can certainly become too much to handle, causing him/her to only go under, but gradually sink deeper within himself/herself. Of course, when you’re sinking deeper within yourself in the darker it gets to the point where it feels like you’re mentally/emotionally drowning, in a manner of speaking.

As I said before, when you’re sinking deeper within yourself in the darker it gets to the point where it feels like you’re mentally/emotionally drowning, in a manner of speaking. Anger, hatred, embarrassment, disgust, shame, dread, anxiety, doubt, worry, insecurity, sadness, frustration, bitterness, disappointment, utter contempt, etc. can most definitely become an immensely heavy weight that ends up dragging you down into the suffocating silence of utter darkness. Thinking about it further, for those who are experiencing or have experienced it, an individual’s fight or flight instincts kick in thus causing you to want to scream and make one’s voice heard, but you’re unable to because of that inner voice of negativity keeping you from speaking up/out. What it primarily comes down to is being afraid to open up and the fear of being judged leaving you sinking father, as well as deeper within to protect yourself.

Let me ask this question to those who are still dealing or have dealt with their own form of trauma, how have you been able to work through it has it made you a significantly stronger individual? I think it’s safe to say more people have found different ways of healing by revealing/sharing the trauma they suffered by either writing a book, talking about it online like on a podcast, performing a one person stage play, singing it in a song, dancing, etc. For the most part, it’s about facing and taking control of your most afraid of instead of the fear taking control of you. Oftentimes. by putting out into the ether you’re in a sense healing so much so you’re able to for all intents and purposes swim out of the cold darkness back into the warm light of hope. However, what any of us realize is there are people out there who are trying to “swim” out of the same darkness you were able to gradually emerge from and finally have your voice be heard.

Maggie Kahn said, ~Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.~ In retrospect, one of the hardest things in life is being able to face and confront the trauma you’re most afraid of, which can be deemed a sink or swim moment. A moment that’s either a positively bright turning point in which you’re slowly but surely rising out of the deep dark abyss of negatively holding you down or doing nothing at all, whereby giving up and sinking any chance of making your voice be known for all to hear. Ultimately, there are far more people rooting for you rather than against you and they are the ones who will always support you by throwing a lifeline whenever you need it the most. In the end, it’s those people and others you may not know who will forever be grateful/appreciative/thankfyul because you decided to speak up after wondering to yourself if anyone was actually willing or cared enough to hear me.