While the content of what upsets you is ever-changing, it is the change in your process, the speaking up itself that is important: the saying what bothers you, saying what think and feel even though there is still some part of you that is tentative and worried about other’s reactions. Empowerment is about giving voice to a truer or more honest self rather than holding back, feeling afraid, walking on eggshells.
In contrast, the drive toward healing is more subtle. It is often a slow-moving forward, less about your taking active steps, and more about your life unfolding in a way that is leading you towards a different path, away from your old coping styles, away from recreating your old relationship wounds and providing you with healing experiences.
But both empowerment and the need for healing can combine. Here you reach out to your parents and talk about what has been haunting or upsetting you all these years, or you do push back and say to your friend that you are tired of always initiating, or you not only speak up in the staff meeting but diplomatically say to your supervisor that you would appreciate her comments being more positive, less critical. This is not about staff meetings or friends or even parents.
Your life is always at the ready to provide these opportunities, these challenges to change your old coping styles, to get out of your little-kid ways of seeing and dealing with the world, to have that do-over.
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Nice lines, but with an abundance of platitudes and covert 'shoulds'. Doesn't account for individual differences, mental health difficulties. Telling a person with social anxiety to be more assertive in a staff meeting is like asking them to stick their hand in a red hot furnace
This is the best thing I’ve read from Psychology Today.
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