Pink: The Rebel and the Reborn
What the world most needs now, is you doing you. Whatever that is. Sing, speak, teach, inspire with your Voice.
Whenever I see pink-color anything, I remember a very personal time when a swatch of pink was my version of me doing me. It was the early 2000’s and I was standing between two worlds. One that said “don’t rock the boat, shut up and sit down.” And the other that said, “come this way, this is who you really are.” It was a tough time. Only a few year’s prior I lost my best friend, biggest fan and support my older sister, Karen. It was beyond traumatizing. She always encouraged me in my pursuit of music. She came to every musical and show, whether it was in a dusty Catholic School gym or a sandy beach bar. Karen was there for the fun (she loved music) and for her baby sister, the singer.
Well, after my sister died, I officially became the music writer, the performer and the recording artist, the published songwriter in a short time. It all just happened. I guess because it had been stoked in the fires of my heart (and hers) for years. It’s a weird phenomenon that in her absence, a magical door opened and I created and took actions I never had before. People say that I let myself.
You don’t know what you have until you “lose” it. Luckily, I caught the upswing of that wave.
Anyway, I had this intuition to use pink, the color, in my life. I asked my hair colorist for a big, bad, bold “hot pink” swatch on my hair. I was blow drying it straight back then so pink really popped! And my first music CD “TurnAround” was designed by a woman who picked up on that and added orange. Man, that woman was intuitive with that orange and pink.
So there I was stepping into expressions as a singer, songwriter, recording Producer, live performer. I stretched. I learned. I laughed. I co-created. I froze. I sweated. I never did any of it to be famous or even popular. I just needed to fulfill my role to “breakout,” you understand. It’s this feeling like … by my being there, with others, the chemistry … changed all of us.
So there it is.
Ten years later, I allowed my biggest personal transformation. By addressing the trauma of the childhood abuse that I experienced and helping others, a new creative expression and personal clarity emerged. That cracked everything wide open. Now the “hot pink” I once wore as rebellion moved from my hair to my clothes to became soft pink. Like a mother holding a new born babe, I was pink as I re-mothered, re-parented myself. Hmm.
I guess the point is you never know. And it is a gradual thing. We all have this mix of trauma and dreams. I believe that I have been learning how to convert trauma into fuel, all along.
Life is messy. It’s not pretty. But I believe that by me (and you!) living authentically, in the “soup of life” with others, I am playing my part. It’s me being me, touching life and being touched.
Maybe you do want to be famous and popular.
Maybe you just want to create and please yourself.
Maybe there is something inside of you that is being born, and you have no idea what that is. Isn’t that fun?!
Do you need someone’s blessing, permission, an invitation?
Well then, here’s that invitation from someone who has walked this road. Do it. Just open up your mouth, voice that Voice. Your way. Your timing. Tune into you, tune out everyone else. Surround yourself with other “pink” people who see you and you see them. You have a million Angels flapping wings to lift you up.
In the long run, you win the most precious things by voicing your Voice in the world. The win is you.
Self-discovery. It rocks.
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