Llewellyn's 2024 Witches' Companion by Llewellyn Publishing

Author:Llewellyn Publishing
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2023-05-10T19:55:10+00:00

I know this because I live on a chicken farm. (I have for a lot of my life!) For me, the example of the hens and the rooster illustrates an important truth: sometimes it’s hard to get your voice out into the world because someone else’s song drowns you out. Just as the hens on a farm are overshadowed by the rooster, the noise of someone else draws others’ attention away from you. Maybe this has happened so often that you have stopped trying to express yourself in the world. Your voice quiets. People have a hard time hearing you, even if you are the only one talking. And the voice that the Goddess gave you disappears.

But not really. It’s still there, hiding behind the years of being silenced (by others, by society, or by yourself). You just need to exercise the muscle of your voice to activate its power. Like any muscle, the voice needs practice, and if you’ve been holding your voice back for years, it can take time to reach your full strength. Even a rooster has to practice before he makes those distinctive cock-a-doodle-doos.

So go ahead and try some of the exercises in this article! Practice them by yourself and discover the pleasure of hearing your own voice out loud, laughing and expressing joy! Then share that joy with others. Your voice has value. Your ideas are unique because they are yours. With these exercises you will begin to realize that your words have merit and will benefit other people if you just choose to share them.

Judgment-Free Zone

Opening up your voice, after it has been shut down, can feel daunting. I have been on a journey of opening my voice for a lot of my adult life. At some point in my early childhood, I learned that keeping quiet was better than speaking up. I cannot pinpoint when this inner belief took root, but by the age of twelve I was well on my way to being the “quiet one” at school.

In seventh-grade French class, I never raised my hand, even if I knew the answer. When my teacher threatened to no longer call on me because I refused to raise my hand to answer questions, I breathed a sigh of relief. No more being forced to talk in class. Of course that only lasted a week or two until the teacher realized I was stubbornly throwing my grade away. In chorus that same year, I sang proudly with the group, confident that any mistakes I made would be covered up by the other singers. This illusion was shattered when a girl in front of me turned around one day and said to me, “Wow! You really can’t sing, can you?” After that, I sang much more softly.

In both of these instances, my voice was being judged by others. In French class, the teacher constructively criticized my word choice, sentence structure, and accent in front of the class. (It was her job after all.) In chorus, the student in front of me rudely commented on my singing ability in front of other classmates.

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