Power Is

Living in accordance with your own values and your own integrity is power.

Making choices and responding to your circumstances - whatever they may be - is power.

Trusting yourself and your own discernment is power.

Acknowledging the humanity of everyone you meet - treating everyone you meet with respect and the understanding that their humanity does nothing to diminish your own, is power.

Holding yourself accountable. Taking responsibility for your own healing and your own growth is power. Feeling your feelings and being in conversation with your feelings, your wounding, and your process is power.

Power is pursuing truth even when it’s inconvenient and uncomfortable and disorienting.

Power is knowing both your strengths and your limits.

Many of the people that we are conditioned to perceive as powerful know nothing of power. Their “power” is superficial and without substance. When you strip away all that props it up - there’s nothing left.

Power isn’t something that’s dictated by what you have, or what you’re called, or how you’ve been validated, it’s not measured by who you are “above” or “beneath” — power is the very thing you’re made of.

It’s the essence of who you are.

If your power is earned through manipulation, coercion, dishonesty, and proximity to something else — if your power is something you must forever fear losing and spend all your time fighting to maintain, then tell me this; do you have any power? 

Or did you give it all away?