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 chemical imbalance, ...

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

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

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 determined by how I ...

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 living experience. Do...

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 to present that side ...

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 engineered this mee
“Let a woman in your life 
And you invite eternal strife 
Let them buy their wedding bands 
For those anxious little hands... 
I'd be equally as willing for 
A dentist to be drilling than to ever let 
a woman in my life...I shall never let a woman in my life.” 

Well, no offense to Lerner and Lowe, but Henry Higgins is

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 or those ten cookie...

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 don’t be too wonder...

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 in Wiesloch became ...

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

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 suspect she might be...

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 inner warmth of the ...

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 last time you felt ...

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 lover in theory. And n...

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 make a difference i...

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

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