Our desire for empowerment, our need to be ourselves, to find our voice erupts in us. It does not gently surface. It explodes out of a mixture of desperation, repression, fear, anxiety, self-betrayal, and confusion about oneself. Your inner self stages a revolution in some physical way in your life, in your psyche, in your marriage, in your body through an illness, in your sexuality, as a way of making the statement that you can no longer continue in your present life. A new “self” has arisen and that inner part of you will not be repressed, abused, controlled, contained any longer. That inner self is a babe in the woods screaming to survive in the early days, months, even first year of its birth. During the revolution stage when the inner self is new, a person has no idea what to do, where to go, what he or she is feeling. Everything is new. All that is certain is there is no going back.
- What is the real power behind self-esteem?
- The challenges of external power
- Why and how we give our power away
- The reasons for abusive behavior
- First steps
- Boundaries
- New wardrobe
- Change of diet - New power rules
- The limitations of stage one
