How do I tell my own story when I always tell everyone else's?

You can find the story in anything handed to you, and you have spent your craft shaping other people's tales while your own sits untold. That tiredness has a specific ache to it. It is not that you cannot tell a story; it is that you keep spending the gift outward and never turn it toward yourself. There is a quiet grief in that. Part of why the outward work is easier is that it is safe. Other people's stories do not expose you. Your own does. To tell your story is to decide what it means, and that feels riskier than any client project, because you have to face what you actually think and feel. The skill is not the missing piece. The courage to point it inward is. So start small and private, the way you would with any hard edit. Take one moment from your own life and shape it, just for you, with the same care you give others. You do not have to publish it or show anyone. You only have to prove to yourself that your story is worth the same craft you give the world. Tell one. Then another. The one voice you have been saving deserves to be heard, even if the first audience is only you.