Quotes About Empowerment

What happened to you can be your power.

the control she gained over the situation allowed her to manage her anxiety such that it minimized the effects that the abuse had on her daily life.

until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself.

In the powerful words of the poem "Invictus," I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

asking the fundamental question "What happened to you?" can help each of us know a little more about how experiences—both good and bad—shape

I now have the tools and understanding to step back, observe what I'm feeling, and choose how to move through the fear.

It's that we have changed our fundamental question from 'What's wrong with you?' to 'What happened to you?

groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

Connectedness has the power to counterbalance adversity.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no. The sense that you are deserving enough to set your own boundaries has been stolen from you. Many people react by burying their feelings of "no" and becoming people pleasers.

I fall in that category. For years, I would say yes to things I knew I really did not want to do, or avoid difficult conversations because I could not live with the discomfort of speaking up for myself. I've known other victims of trauma who sabotage situations until someone else says no for them—meaning their relationship ends, a friendship becomes toxic, or they lose a job. This is what I hear you saying when you talk about people who poison intimacy.

You Never Needed GOD to simply Do GOOD For Other People

Your body may live in a cellar; but it's your own fault if your mind lives there.

Twelve-step programs have long stressed that the key is giving up any illusion of control—to admit that we're wrong, weak, or full of it, and then relinquish authority to a higher power.

Michael Mendizza and Joseph Chilton Pearce's inspiring book Magical Parent-Magical Child

PSYCH-K can change long-standing, limiting beliefs in a matter of minutes.

It is not gene-directed hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies and our minds, and thus our lives . . . Oh ye of little belief!

so many of us are leading limited lives not because we have to but because we think we have to.

When leaders realize that people are what matter most in business, everything else falls in line.

Your Kindness Will Lead You to Success

Having no limitation as limitation

As you think, so shall you become.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.