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I am still on a sacred pause, so I’m sharing this one from the archives. It’s very relevant to what we are currently experiencing about sharing our voices. I am itching to share more about what’s come through, but it’s a “keep resting” for a bit longer.
You might think I’ve got it all figured out. I just want you to know that I am in the trenches with you. I am here to be the light for you and more often than not I am healing exactly what I deliver to you only days later. It means it’s a good time to ask me any questions, as it’s all still fresh in my mind.
This is a bit of a personal share for me, I was not always this sure about my voice and what I had to say. Self expression has never been easy for me. In fact it’s something I struggled with all my life.
I was amazed when I listened back to the last episode of my podcast and there was not one instance of hesitation, ummms, ahhhhs or repeating myself. Yes, I have a lot of help from my guides, but it’s my wisdom, it’s my voice and it’s coming from my sense of self. This was not always the way.
I grew up in a house where noise was not encouraged. My dad worked nights, so in the day I often tiptoed around the house trying not to disturb his sleep. Even now I’ll often catch myself doing this even though I don’t need to.
My mum has bipolar and as kids we were told not to do anything to upset her. Anything that got her too excited, worried or agitated could set off a manic episode, a spell in a psychiatric ward and months of recovery. I was always scared that it would be my behaviour that would be the trigger. I tried to behave myself, but I was often confused emotionally and looked for attention in all the wrong places.
At school I was teased for speaking too quietly, which only made me withdraw into my shell even more. Looking back it’s a wonder I said anything at all!
Many people who grow up in dysfunctional households, my dad was an alcoholic just to add the mix, normalise the situation. I spent a lot of time growing up thinking that my issues were my fault, because what could possibly have caused them. Um hello!
Let’s just say I didn’t blame anyone, but I didn’t make the connection between the environment I grew up in and how this manifested later on.
It wasn’t until I started doing a lot of inner work that I realised that at the heart of my inability to express myself was the idea that no would want to hear what I had to say and that I would upset someone, with consequences. Just this week the lady at the chemist asked me to repeat something several times, she ended up saying “you’re quietly spoken”. Another mirror that reminds me that I still carry some debris to be cleared up and ceremonially dumped in the past.
Tied up with ancestral patterns of persecution for speaking up, leading spiritual communities and using my powerful spiritual gifts and it’s no wonder my overwhelming sense of being was dominated by being silenced.
It has been nothing but miraculous the change I have felt in going through the patterns, the layers, the emotions, the beliefs, the programming and releasing them one by one. It’s where my words come from, it’s how my wisdom is expressed and it has been the most liberating experience for which I am so grateful for as part of the journey.
The thing that has surprised me most is that as much as it has been about speaking up it has nudged my creativity up several levels. I never thought I would be writing poems or allowing myself the freedom of expression through words that I never had.
Finding Your Voice
Finding your voice is so much more than being able to speak up. Speaking in public is a fear that many people have. The fear of self expression runs deeper. It’s that point at which you stood up for your beliefs and you were chased, captured, tortured, betrayed and beaten into submission. When you spoke the truth.
Let’s set your voice free, let’s allow your true self to become the instrument that sings of liberation, of transformation, of healing, of light transmission, of being chosen to lead the way as a light worker for others. The tone, the sound, the resonance, the frequency will vibrate through your very being. It will be a beacon of light for those that recognise that you were once part of the healing solution and will be once again.
Allow yourself to chant, allow yourself to sing, allow yourself to scream at the top of your voice to be heard. YOU will not be silenced again, because those that came to fetch you are long gone, gone, gone. You will rise up with your sisters and brothers and bring the power home, bring it back from the temple, from the citadel, from the healing chambers of Atlantis.
For you are free, free to express yourself, free to create, free to move, free to travel between worlds, free to stand on solid ground and not be knocked down, free to bring your unique gifts out into the world. You are no longer silenced, you will be heard and you will not do it alone.
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Louise x
Thank you SO much for this, Louise! Your wisdom always comes through at the perfect time. I hadn't realized, until I read your post, that I have been stuck in a pattern of 'holding my words close' (that's what I call it) because I haven't felt safe to fully express myself in a particular relationship in my life. I've had puzzling dreams about it the last couple nights too. In reading your message, though, feeling that I am so held by all of these supportive forces, makes me see that now is the time to express myself, that it's safe to do so. Thank you, too, for the guided meditation on this. I'm going to listen to it for further insights. Such a blessing!❤️❤️❤️
This spoke to me deeply! Especially when you wrote about being, "tied up with ancestral patterns of persecution for speaking up." Persecution is my biggest fear. Something I have been looking at, digging into for some time now. It is a fear that has ruled me a good portion of my life. Till I became aware of it, along with its far reaching roots. It has been quite a process this untying myself from these unruly tentacles. I very much agree, it is entangled with the voice! Being here on Substack is a miracle for me! Before this platform my writing has was more in a form of compliance. But I was inwardly directed here to Substack to give my voice freedom to roam! And as a bonus, I have found other travelers that doing the same, like you! Thank you for what you bring forward and offer!