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What "losing your voice" can look like. 

  • Becoming a bully or a pushover

  • Feeling the need to yell to get your point across because you feel no one cares, or listens

  • Not speaking up and staying in situations that are harmful to you (mentally, physically, emotionally) due to lack of options or fear of rejection/retaliation.

  • Feeling like your answers or boundaries need to be explained in detail otherwise they won’t be respected

  • Become manipulative

  • Someone who doesn’t share how they feel because of a fear of “disrupting the peace” 

  • A boss who is a dictator and tyrant

  • An abusive person

  • Loss of  identity

  • Become a people pleasers

  • People who place all of their value in success or money

  • Someone who has “no filter” and just says any and everything, regardless how it effects people or without thinking about it

  • Forgetting to take care of yourself or always leaving yourself for last

  • Need to have power and success to validate importance or worth

  • Seeking validation everywhere

  • Living for others

  • Internalizing others’ opinions

  • Low self esteem

  • Isolation and loneliness

  • Mental health challenges

  • Lack of empowerment

  • Difficulty building relationships

  • Limited personal growth

  • Physical health consequences

  • Lack of civic engagement

  • Negative impact on decision making

  • Letting trauma remove the part of you that you loved. 

  • Feeling like you never quite fit in/ rejection

  • Feeling like no one understands you or cares to understand you

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