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A Note About Empowerment
Love the word or hate it, “empowerment” holds a lot of… well, power.
It’s easy to understand why so many of us shy away from a word like this. Most importantly, the direct connection to “power” makes many of us rightfully uncomfortable. With so many examples in our fractured world of power being misused and abused, many of us want nothing to do with it.
And yet, we need it. Not abusive forms of power (like power-over), but helpful, healing, collaborative and change making forms of power (like power-with, power-to, and power-within).
We all have power, whether we want to acknowledge it or not. The question is, how are we choosing to use it?
We need to take our power back in healthy ways. We need to access forms of power that help to heal a fractured world. We need to access forms of power that help heal ourselves.
How might you reclaim your power? Perhaps you might empower yourself to:
• Set healthy boundaries
• Think flexibly
• Speak your truth
• Be vulnerable
• Try something new
• Forgive yourself for past mistakes
• Believe change is possible
• Believe you are amazing just as you are
• Let go of a relationship that’s no longer healthy for you
• Connect on a deeper level with yourself and those around you
• Start therapy
• Take a healthy risk
• Keep adding to this list
Learning to work with horses in mutually respectful ways teaches us so much about accessing our healthy power. And, we can have a lot of fun in the process!
The above is an except written by Carmen Theobald in the Word of the Week blog for the Polyvagal Equine Institute.
