How do I find my own voice after years of speaking for others?

You can steer a story through almost any storm, but the skill came at a cost you are only now feeling. After years of putting words in other mouths, you have lost the sound of your own. When everything you say is for someone else, your own voice gets quiet from disuse. That voice is not gone. It is under the professional layers, waiting. You did not lose the ability to say what you think; you lost the habit of it. Habits can be rebuilt, one honest sentence at a time. Start somewhere with no client and no angle. Write a page that is only yours, meant for no audience. Say one true thing out loud to a friend without shaping it. It will feel rusty. That is fine. You spent years learning to speak for others. Now spend a little, on purpose, learning again to speak for you.