Blossoming Beyond Words: Embracing Your Unique Writing Voice
Celebrating beauty and individuality in your writing and storytelling
It feels funny saying this but when I first created my website for my business back in 2017, I wasn't entirely sure why I was drawn to using flowers as a visual theme. I had a pile of possible photos to use, and over and over I felt myself saying yes to bold, beautiful florals, while setting other lovely photos to the side.
It was only after I’d been working with clients for a while, mentoring them with their writing or making their dreams for their business more real, that I began to fully understand why my intuition showed me flowers as a metaphor for my work.
The Splendor of Singularity
Depending on the source you check, there are anywhere from 250,000 to 400,000 species of flowering plants in the world today.
There are showy flowers and simple ones. Ones that bloom over and over again. Ones that grow a single rare jewel of a bloom only a few times over many years and those that bloom once in a lifetime. There are tiny, delicate florets, and heavy ostentatious ones. There are flowers in almost every color - ruby or amethyst or citrus or golden and more. Their varied hues make a rainbow. There are delicate blooms in pastel hues that will fall in the slightest breeze. There are spiky, strong, angular buds, splashy and posing in exotic locales. There are humble, commonplace violets, and rare Queen of the Nights’ blooming in the dark on desert cacti.
Every flower that exists does so to serve a purpose - and those blossoms collectively, gathered up together, each blooming in their own individual way, are stunning. There are no ugly flowers. And if a bloom is suddenly absent from a bouquet or a floral arrangement or a field or a hushed woodland carpet, it is altered, forever.
This is the same for us as individuals - we are all singular, unique, beautiful. No one other person on this planet of nearly 8 billion people has your unique gifts. Your individual history. Your experience. Your values and qualities.
No one else has your writerly voice.
And your stories – be they memoir, essay, fiction, or some other form that feels true – are worthy, invaluable. When you don’t write your story, something is missing. Something is lost.
When we do show up, aware of our uniqueness and ready to share our vulnerable selves—our individual perspective told from our own divine voice—we make the world a better and more beautiful place.
What story do you want to tell today?
If you haven’t visited my website in a while, I invite you to look. There’ve been some recent updates, and, yes, it’s still filled with gorgeous florals.