Hey there, beautiful soul.

Let’s talk about one of the most universal human frustrations:

“They don’t listen to me.”

Sound familiar?

You’re sharing something vulnerable, or asking for help, or simply offering your opinion.

And they’re checking their phone, or talking over you, or saying, “Yeah yeah, but…” before you even finish your sentence.

You’re left standing there, blinking like, “Did I just become invisible, or did this conversation get hijacked by a squirrel on espresso?”

Why does not being heard hurt so much?

It’s not just about manners.

Being unheard triggers something primal.

Because from a neuroscience perspective,
your brain associates being heard with being safe.

It says: “Ahh. I belong. I matter. I’m not alone.”

So when your words fall flat, or are ignored, or dismissed, your nervous system interprets that as a kind of exile.

And the story begins to write itself:

“They don’t care.”
“I don’t matter.”
“Why do I even bother speaking?”

But what if that story isn’t the only one available?

Welcome to the whole reason I created Story Alchemy!

That’s where we shift. Because Story Alchemy is not about pretending everything’s fine.
It’s not toxic positivity.

It’s truth-telling with transformation baked in.

We take the old story — the one that makes us feel small, or silenced, or stuck — and we ask the one question that changes everything: “What else could this mean?”

Let’s apply that to feeling unheard.

Here is the story reframe: Is it that they are not listening, or is it that you are still learning to hear yourself?

Oof. That hits a nerve, right? Yeah.

Let’s sit in that feeling one for a moment. Feeling matters. It's how you get through that Threshold Moment.

When you feel unheard, the brain’s instinct is to point outward:
“They don’t get it.”
“They don’t respect me.”
“They never really listen.”

But what if we flip the lens gently inward?

What if the real question isn’t “Why don’t they hear me?” but “Where am I not hearing myself?”

When someone doesn’t listen, if your inner dialogue sounds like:

“That was stupid.”
“No one cares what I have to say.”
“I probably shouldn’t even say this.”

Then guess what?

You’ve pre-muted yourself before the world even had a chance to listen.

Your outer world is echoing your inner one.

And the universe? It’s just handing you a megaphone for the story you keep whispering to yourself.

So if you want the world to hear you, you have to become the first listener of your own voice.

Not the critic, editor or “but is this valuable?” police. Just the loving witness.

So, try this today: listen like you matter.

Speak your truth out loud to yourself.

You can journal it, voice-note it, whisper it in the car while parked outside the grocery store.

But say it like this: “Hey, love, what’s something you’ve been trying to say that no one seems to hear?”

Then let the words come. And let them land.

Don’t interrupt. Don’t edit. Don’t shrink.

Just listen as if the whole universe paused to hear you.

Because when you finally become a safe place for your voice, the outside world starts to shift.

Not instantly, but undeniably.

People start tuning in. You speak with more resonance, less volume, more presence.

Because now, you’re not asking to be heard.

You’re being heard by the one person who always mattered most.

You.

Let’s bring it full circle.

Old story: “No one listens to me.”

New story: “I am listening to myself and that changes everything.”

Old story: “They don’t value my words.”

New story: “My words are sacred. I’ll speak them from a place of embodiment, not begging.”

Old story: “I’m being ignored.”

New story: “I no longer ignore myself. That’s where the shift begins.”

See how that works?

This is not just mental gymnastics. This is repatterning your identity at the story level.

It’s changing the script, not with force, but with awareness.

That’s what makes Story Alchemy so powerful.

It’s not about denying what’s real.
It’s about not stopping there.

If you’ve ever felt invisible, muted, or overlooked, here’s what I want you to remember:

Your voice doesn’t need an audience to be valid. It needs an anchor.

And that anchor? Is you.

Start there. Start now. And when you speak next, speak not to prove, but to stand.

Not to convince, but to connect to yourself first.

Because once you become the kind of person who listens deeply to their own heart?

The world can’t help but turn its head.

Much love,
Marie-Josee
Live. Love. Laugh. It matters because YOU matter!

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