Making Friends with Your Own Voice
is a freelance writer and digital marketer. She writes personal essays, memoir, and poetry in Tulsa, where she lives with her husband and cat, Joan Didion.
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Hey poet!
You don’t need to find your voice.
You need to trust it.
This episode unpacks how doubt, comparison, and over-editing pull you away from your natural rhythm and offers practical ways to reconnect with the voice that’s already yours, messy, honest, and powerful.
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EPISODE 60 | Simple solutions for trusting your voice and returning to the natural rhythm that’s already yours.