A Woman’s Voice Press was born from the idea that, too often, women’s voices are silenced by the world around them. Sometimes that world includes us silencing our own voice so that we can get and keep approval, because it is what we are expected to do, or to deflect attention from ourselves. Sometimes we bite our tongue because, in the split seconds before we speak, we analyze the environment and people to determine if it is safe. Will we be demeaned, ignored, or threatened if we dare to speak? Will a person that we trust and love shun us or shut us out if we say what we need to say? Will our job or security be at risk because we dared to speak? Will our voices be used against us as soon as the sound leaves our mouths? These scenarios unravel before us daily, engaging women in a dance learned a thousand years ago that we have continued to practice over the centuries.

 

I breathed life into this idea so that I could have a home for my own authentic, honest voice, and as it grows, my own book(s) and writings will be found here. My future goal is to have a place for women to express themselves through the written word as well – however that may look.

 

For those women who are silenced – whose fears are too big for the words and silent screams that form in the shape of tears – I hope to eventually offer you a safe space to read, practice, write… be.  Until then, I have provided some useful resources. This resource page was developed with you in mind so that, no matter who or where you are, you may find help and community. Most exciting is that I’ve posted an excerpt of my book! A Community and Workplace Safety Checklist to help improve services for survivors is forthcoming.

 

In the coming months you will see information and news on my memoir, Broken in the Stronger Places: From Resilience to Resourcefulness, along with helpful tools. I’ll be sending out newsletters to my subscribers, to keep you informed and updated of changes and events.

 

If you have suggestions or questions, please do reach out to me via the Contacts form.

 

If you would like to have me come speak at your event or conduct a book reading/signing, please complete the Engagement Inquiries form.

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Welcome to my world, where I believe empowering women through words includes the freedom to raise our voices for the world to hear. Grab a seat and a cuppa whatever it is you enjoy drinking, and join me in doing this together.