Everyday Canvas

Wounds and Voice

"Blog City Prompt Forum" 

Prompt: Discuss this quote “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

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Emotional wounds are similar to physical wounds, in that they look like they’ve healed but they scar over. They leave their mark. If we don’t treat them properly and with the care that they deserve, they continue causing problems for us, or worse, they may reopen just like a deep cut that was never stitched right.

Such wounds come from the past, and they have the strength to glue themselves inside our subconscious, so they can pop up with the least hint of a trigger.

A majority of these wounds have to do with our self-esteem. The others have to do with our suppressed independence or lack of affection. Especially those ones dragged into the present from our childhood can cause tricky and negative situations, so much so that healing them may require professional help.

We can, however, help ourselves to some degree by discovering and accepting the pain through some kind of a grieving process. We can also omit long periods of isolation, so we don’t embrace our victimhood, self-blame, and bitterness. Delving into some kind of a creative activity to take a break from the pain can help by giving us temporary respite. Then, those of us lucky enough who have learned from our wounds and have become wiser and more resilient can move on and continue living in a new direction.

After all, it is up to us to allow or reject any emotional pain that can hold us back.

For: "Space Blog Group" 

Prompt: from the star system Sophurky
The planet is "Losing Your Voice" 
The prompt is "What would you do if you lost your voice?

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Losing voice can be frustrating especially when it is physical, but the medical profession probably can cure that. Since I have never lost my physical voice, I have little to fall back on when it comes to defining its terror.

In the emotional and spiritual sense, losing one’s voice can be even worse. It happens when you try to express yourself and are met with punishment, ridicule, silence, or callousness.

More often than not, like most emotional ills, losing this kind of a voice goes back to childhood. When someone steals your voice from you like an ignorant parent or an overly strict teacher at an early age, it is likely that you’ll either shut down totally or imitate and absorb someone else’s voice. This absorbing another’s voice is a dangerous thing to do because it may push you say or scream thoughts, ideas, and slogans that do not belong with your real thinking or moral stance.

What is so important is that your true friends in life will always appreciate your true voice, rather than what you parrot. Any friend or community that encourages you to talk in your own voice and even lets you make mistakes during the process is a helpful one. You have to own your voice because it is the most important one, no matter what the present, popular voices may be saying.