Quotes About Empowerment

That would be my theme, I thought: once I came out, the world was all windows.

Mentorship lead to greatness in others!

When you know who you are, it's harder for people to fuck with you.

If softball leagues treated players as delicately as teachers do students, there'd be a rule about not striking out. After three strikes, they'd bring out a tee, or maybe the coach would go up there, take the bat out of the kid's hands, and hit it for him. We'd tell ourselves we were protecting their fragile psyches, when in reality we'd be sending a clear message: You can't do it, so I'll do it for you.

Even more important though, is the stress he places on our ability to create our relationships rather than to merely react to the various people and events that come into our lives. He points out that if we aren't creators, then we are habitual reactors.

Are we doormats? Definitely not. The difference, as I see it, is that we get on with our lives. We don't sit around letting that situation decide our emotional state.

we alcoholics, when we are willing, can also learn a great deal by attending Al-Anon meetings.

Al-Anon members to live life comfortably and emotionally sober no matter what the alcoholic, or anyone else, is doing or not doing.

Who or what makes you happy or sad, confident or fearful, up-beat or worried? Do you choose your feelings, or does some other person or situation make you feel the way you feel?

my emotional sobriety is than that person or that situation, and I don't allow what happened to ruin the rest of my day. As mentioned before, it feels good to be emotionally independent and in control of both myself and what would otherwise be an uncomfortable situation.

What would your life be like if you had the courage and wisdom to take charge? What if you made up your mind that from now on for the rest of your life, you alone would decide how you were going to feel? What kind of emotional life would you choose for yourself?

An otherwise really sharp lady, it never occurred to her that she had the power to alter her life—by simply choosing to do so.

But we can make progress. With practice, a good attitude, and the help of a Higher Power, we can markedly reduce both the frequency and the duration of those periods when we allow others to determine the state of our emotions.

our best defense (as stated earlier) is often our defenselessness. In Al-Anon we hear, "Don't complain and don't explain.

The best thing you can do for her is to be okay yourself. We're going to let her join us in recovery; we're not going to join her in her disease.

Every time we are upset, we must admit to ourselves that we have chosen to be upset, no one has made us upset.

As victims, we aren't responsible for our lives. We blame someone else. However, this statement is true for me, and it's true for every one else: My life is my responsibility

As victims, we aren't responsible for our lives. We blame someone else. However, this statement is true for me, and it's true for every one else: My life is my responsibility. The circumstances of my life don't determine the quality of my life; the quality of my life is determined by my reaction to circumstances.

In my mind, people and situations "drove me to drink." Once I became sober, I had to learn to handle my emotions so these same people and situations could no longer do this to me.

Regardless of the cause of our emotional disturbances, there is always something we can do about our feelings. In fact, we are the only one who can do something about them.

I blame my emotional state on what is happening outside me rather than admitting that at every moment of every day, consciously or unconsciously, I exercise a choice as to my mood and how I am going to feel.

When an alcoholic eliminates the allergy problem by removing the alcohol, he or she then faces the same problem as the Al-Anon member, that of not allowing others to determine how they feel.

In order to maintain their sobriety, recovering alcoholics can not afford to let others control how they feel.

It means that if I don't like the way someone is treating me, I can alter their behavior by first changing my own. I can have a positive influence on the situation.