25: Empowerment series - It really is down to you - but that's good news, right?
Oct 21, 2019
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Explore the power of personal empowerment and taking control of your life. Learn how to overcome challenges, embrace strengths, and navigate relationships towards growth and empowerment. A personal journey of empowerment and mental strength will inspire you to take charge of your own power.
Empowerment comes from seizing it for oneself, not waiting for validation or permission from others.
Identifying disempowering factors and focusing on empowering elements can expand one's circle of influence and control.
Deep dives
Empowerment Through Self-Initiative
Empowerment is not about waiting for validation or permission from others but seizing it for oneself. It involves creating a life surrounded by empowering elements while distancing from disempowering influences. An analogy to three circles of control, influence, and concern emphasizes how changing attitudes can expand the circle of control, reducing feelings of helplessness.
Personal Journey to Empowerment
The speaker shares a personal story of being diagnosed with MS and deciding not to let it define her. By accepting the condition and focusing on what she could control, she redesigned her life to emphasize strengths rather than limitations. This mental shift and proactive choices led to a sense of empowerment and pride, demonstrating the importance of attitude and self-directed empowerment.
Practical Steps to Empowerment
To cultivate empowerment, identify disempowering factors and strengthen yourself through empowering environments or activities. Focus on areas where you feel strongest to build resilience and avoid wasting energy on uncontrollable concerns. By gradually eliminating disempowering elements and embracing empowering ones, individuals can expand their circle of influence and control, leading to a more empowered life.
We have more power to feel empowered than we think. In particular, we can design many elements of our life around the people and circumstances which give us power. In this episode Carolyn tells a very personal story of her route to empowerment under difficult circumstances, and shows how everyone has options in terms what they allow in their life and what they wak away from.