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Authentic Voice Project: D is for Drive

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, tagged , , on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The Authentic Voice Project: Week 4 (New Moon) D is for Drive Society says: Drive is good. Drive is what allows one to come from nothing and go to something. Drive makes the downtrodden get up, turns the girl next door into the celebrity on the hill, and gives the death-diagnosis a bill of good [...]

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Authentic Voice Project: C is for Christ

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, tagged , , , , , on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I realized with discomfort that my last Authentic Voice Project post was in itself Inauthentic. I chose a safe word to explore. I shied away from tackling a true “trigger” word. I again silenced my voice out of fear of rocking the boat. I realized the hypocrisy of this and now I must fix it [...]

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More thoughts on Authentic Voice (and writing)

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, tagged , , , , on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Authentic Voice is that which longs for interconnectedness, looks toward growth and actualization (as opposed to purely “defense” needs and “elemental drives” such as eating, sleeping, finding shelter, having sex [Eisler, 190]), and is not “encased” by societies’ rigid hierarchical gender roles and stereotypes. It is not selfish or self-centered, but a recognition of “our [...]

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Authentic Voice Project: B is for Belly

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Authentic Voice Project: Week 2 (New Moon) B is for Belly I considered many “trigger” words for this post: Behavior, Body, Beauty, Blame, but I settled on Belly because… well, I have one. Society says: A woman’s belly should be flat; nay, concave. Low-rise and skinny jeans (practically the only type you can find [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , on January 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Words. Manifestations of our thoughts. Creators of our internal messages. Words have and continue to shape history and people – not always positively and sometimes with devastating consequences. Words have an affect on us, more powerful than we can rationally understand. The words we have heard all our life, depending on the context in which [...]

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