Welcome to
Voice in Me
A place where people who are seeking to find their true voices can feel empowered by listening, sharing and learning of ways to overcome the challenges that are stopping them.
About My Voice!
Who is Voice In Me?
You can all me Naz!
My motivation for starting Voice In Me started in my childhood struggling to get my voice heard because I stuttered. I was teased and made to feel inferior by my friends, teachers and surprisingly my own family. Yes and that may offend them now but it's the truth. I lived in South Africa with limited means so I struggled until I graduated high school. I felt dumb, stupid and like I was nothing but in reality I was highly intelligent and did really well at school and used that to get myself to university.
It was in university where away from everyone I grew up with, I finally found my true voice. I learnt that part of my problem was that my left and right brain was being used at the same time, which does cause a stutter because your brain is way faster than the words you speak out. But, the real problem was the environment and culture I was brought up in that instilled fear so I struggled to bring out the Voice In Me.
At university, I spoke as if there was never a stutter. I became a producer/DJ on a radio show my friend and I started. I was a tutor and was asked to teach one of my university classes in my final year. I started to really merge the voice in my heart with the voice that everyone could hear. But, my challenges to get my voice heard did not stop there because as I entered new environments I faced emotional, cultural and so many other dimensions of challenges and with each situation I have had to learn new ways to get my voice heard. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't but I learnt and adapted through sharing and talking to others who faced similar challenges.
About 3 years ago, in the height of Covid where many of us were feeling lost that someone told me to take time at least 20 mins a day to do something just for myself and that's when I found Voice In Me. I started to write spoken word poetry about how I felt with my own life experience and with that I found my true voice in me. It took me decades to get where I am with letting my true voice in me come out so I want help others to try to get there sooner.
So, please join me as I grow Voice In Me into a way to help others or even you to discover or rediscover your true voice in you!