Our Voices Magazine

Pattie Sadler Since I had suffered through a drug addiction that lasted 22 years, I not only had to move away and get clean from all the...

Kimberly Thorson Rundles Twosock stopped and looked at me. His long eyelashes brushed his cheeks and he softly grunted. Dropping the...

Amora Freeman-Floyd We do not always actively choose change. Sometimes forces beyond our control inflict change upon us and we are...

Hayley White Bell I was done hiding in the shadows of my depression, allowing it to rule my life. I was no longer going to let my day be...

Lynn DeBuhr Johnson ...to live life on a daily basis fully congruent with who you know you are capable of being, and to have a powerful...

Kourtney Rieder That people-pleaser was nothing more than a mask, one I had put on long ago. In search of acceptance, I was conditioned...

By Joseph Leavitt "Fast forward a few years to a blind date where I indeed met the love of my life, Andrea. I did tell my dear friend who...

By Sue Reese Finlay "Nobody forced me to eat that entire giant bag of M&M’s or that gallon of ice cream; that fourth cup of hot chocolate...

By Udana Power "It’s the nature of the group to want everybody to conform. To fit in. To be safe. Status quo. “You can be wonderful… just...

By David Gregory Pihl "Along the way, she drove through every town that had a decent apothecary so she could buy fuel. The chemist’s shop...

By Savannah Lewis “Today, many people are overstimulated emotionally, mentally, and physically. I believe that consistency is so...

By Hayley Bell "But the reality is that we know nothing, and we assume everything." We have all been there. We see a beautiful woman and...

By Lynn DeBuhr Johnson “This is where the cold and dark of winter shares its gifts with you. It asks you to drive yourself to seek this...

By Anianne Rivera "Being happy is a choice, and a choice that you must make daily." When was the last time that you were truly happy? The...

By Christy Neider "I wouldn’t say I’m restless. I just wonder a lot. And the wondering creates change as I seek." I was once an animal...

By Pattie Sadler "I believe that playing small does not serve anyone, least of all ourselves. We were created to create. We were meant to...

By Megan Hutchins "I had a desire, a creative desire, that needed attention. I did not know how to accomplish fulfilling this desire but...

By Sue Reese Finlay “Transformation is a thorough and complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone." What is...