You are the Author of Your Own Adventure

Your story matters and you are the best person to tell it.

No matter what your life looks like, you have stories that matter to the world.

You have valuable stories that matter to yourself, your community, and to the world beyond. Don't sit around and let other people tell the stories of who you are, what you stand for, and what your lived experiences have been.

You are the author of your own adventure and here are three reasons why you are the best person to tell your story.

You are the only person who has been around the whole time.

You are literally the only person who has been with you the entire time you've been alive. It seems pretty simple when you lay it out like that. But no one else has the context of spending your entire life with you.

This, more than anything else, makes you the best person to tell your stories.

Maybe you're thinking...but I'm not a storyteller, that's 'just not me, I don't know how to do that.' No worries!

Telling your story is a skill you can learn.

People are not born with or without a storytelling gene. Telling your story is a skill. Just like learning to read, walk, and eat with a knife and fork, you can learn how to tell your story. It doesn't matter what form you want to tell your stories in -- you can learn it, step-by-step.

Learning to tell your story is something that you can learn how to do, and you will get better at over time.

No matter how you want to tell your stories, no matter what your stories look like, you are the best person to tell them.