Ask for What You Need: the Power of Self Advocacy

2021-03-10

I am a BIG believer in personal development. And, many self-help proponents equate personal power with accepting full responsibility for one’s own life. I don’t disagree. But there’s something missing there. Acceptance is not enough. Authentic personal power must include the capacity to articulate what we need and what we want. And yet, too many of us avoid doing the work of owning and articulating what it is we need because we are AFRAID of what we will discover ... About ourselves, about...

I am a BIG believer in personal development. And, many self-help proponents equate personal power with accepting full responsibility for one’s own life. I don’t disagree.

But there’s something missing there. Acceptance is not enough.

Authentic personal power must include the capacity to articulate what we need and what we want.

And yet, too many of us avoid doing the work of owning and articulating what it is we need because we are AFRAID of what we will discover ...

About ourselves, about our partners, our families, or our workplaces.

But, Amen, I say unto you: If you want to become your most powerful self and SPEAK from your place of power, this is the work.

This is a path I have been walking all my life. If it’s a path you’d like to walk, or a journey you’d like to better understand, this week’s episode is for you.

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