For those learning to reclaim their creative voice, whose voices have been silenced, censored, or suppressed in service of self-protection. The deep pain of feeling imprisoned by situational mutism, how autism and trauma mixed to deepen the claustrophobia within my throat while my spirit felt expansive within. For years as I survived multiple forms of abuse and neglect, bullying, I disappeared into silence; fawning, freezing, floating above my body to survive. My deepest yearning is to transform the pain of silence and the claustrophobia within myself into liberation. Through art and fierce self-compassion, and dialoguing with fragmented parts of myself through my artistic practice and embodied experience of others' art as well, I've learned that finding our voice is about honoring all the ways we communicate, nourishing each voice within me, so I can fully listen to all. Our eventual voice carries the power of every storyline we've survived and embraces self-authorship.