Monique Lawson
28 Nov
🔥 PART 2: Becoming The Vivid Voice

— “The Day the Echo Became a Voice”


There’s a moment in a woman’s life where her silence becomes too heavy to carry.
Mine came quietly — disguised as exhaustion, fear, and a pain I couldn’t outrun anymore.

For years, I spoke softly.

Not because I lacked opinions, dreams, or truth —

but because my voice had been shaped by survival, not expression.

I learned to shrink so others could feel comfortable.

I learned to stay quiet so no one would get angry.

I learned to be “okay” so no one would ask questions I wasn’t ready to answer.

But you can’t bury your fire forever.

You can’t keep a storm in a small box.

And eventually, everything I spent years pushing down began rising back up. It hit me in one of the lowest moments of my life —
the day I realised I could not provide for my children.

That helplessness cracked something in me that had been holding on for too long.

Everything I had survived —

the addiction

the abuse

the heartbreak

the shame

the generational cycles

the losses no woman should carry

the bruises, the nights I hid the tears, the days I faked strength —

all of it rushed back like a tidal wave. 

And instead of drowning me —

it woke me up.

That day, I didn’t break.

I became.

I realised my voice wasn’t damaged —

it was dormant.

A sleeping giant.

And once it opened, once it finally spoke

not whispering, not apologising —

I felt God pull something deep out of me.

A calling.

A purpose.

A direction that terrified me and electrified me at the same time.

That was the day the echo became a voice.
A real voice.
A vivid voice.

Not the wounded girl.

Not the woman who hid the bruises.

Not the one who tried to please everyone.

Not the one who carried silence like a second skin.

No.

This voice is built from fire.
This voice is born from truth.
This voice is sharpened by storms.
This voice is aligned with God’s assignment.

Part 2 is the awakening.

Part 3…

that’s the rise.

And trust me — the world is not ready, but I am.

🔥🔥🔥

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