Find Your Voice: How to Write When You're Not a Writer

Writing helps us identify our coping mechanisms and honestly evaluate what helps and what absolutely does not (and Ally shares her number one stressor right now). Listen and write for 5-20 minutes. In this stressful season, sign up for GrowWrite, a 90-day program to help you grow through challenges by putting pen to paper.

Writing can impact your personal and professional life in ways you might not expect. Laura Youngkin is an entertainment producer, writer, creative consultant, and former Disney Imagineerwork. She shares how the practice of writing impacts, shapes, and transforms her life. Ted Talk mentioned: Hardwired for story, Sarah-Jane “SJ” Murray, TEDxSanAntoniothebravemillennial.comtwitter.com/llyoungkin

People say that roadblocks can become opportunities. But how does that happen? It’s not a flip of a switch. This episode provides a case study on how an obstacle at Find Your Voice, through an intentional shift in perspective, became an opportunity. Now, it’s your turn. GrowWrite, a 90-day program to help you grow through challenges by putting pen to paper: findyourvoice.com/growwrite

Healing takes time—it’s true. And yet, there are still ways we can help ourselves heal (and make more progress than we ever thought imaginable). Miles Adcox is a speaker, podcast host, business leader, and coach. He’s also the CEO of Onsite an internationally-known emotional wellness center that delivers life-changing personal growth workshops, founder of Inspire Nashville, a regular guest presenter on the Dr. Phil Show and author. A leading voice in mental health, he speaks, here, on change, creativity and the writing process. MilesAdcox.com Unspoken Podcast

What do we do to cope with stress? Writing helps us see clearly how we are responding to a crisis, and empowers us to make choices about what’s helpful and what’s not. Take a moment this week to tune in to your own pain and fear and imagine a new way ending. findyourvoice.com/prompts 

In the midst of kids going off to college and other chaos, Amy Brown read The Road Back to You—it turned out to be just what she needed to make personal changes, connect with others, and rediscover herself. Book Reviewed: The Road Back to You: an Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Cron and Suzanne StabileBook mentioned: The Wisdom of the Enneagram

Anxiety is an incredibly normal part of life—a natural, biological response to danger. But in times of crisis, how do we keep our anxiety from hurting us more than it helps?

For Laura McKowen, writing, sobriety, and the life she always wanted are inextricably linked. Laura is a leading voice in the sobriety movement—she’s helped THOUSANDS on the road to healing through her writing, speaking and teaching, and especially through her newly released, thought-provoking memoir, We are the Luckiest. She opens up here on her own journey, and what role writing had along the way. Find Your Voice is so proud to have worked with Laura on her most recent book, We are the Luckiest: the Surprising Magic of a Sober Life. “We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It’s the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s going to save lives.” — Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior: A Memior

It’s the age-old question: go with your head or your heart? In situations of love, work, and day-to-day life, we’re faced with this question all the time. Writing about it sheds light on the unexpected answer. Sign up for FREE weekly writing prompts. 

Anne Bogel, creator of The Modern Mrs. Darcy and podcast What Should I Read Next?, gets real about the wandering process of writing, what makes books different than other media, and why people still go to the library. Purchase her brand new book, Don’t Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life.