Inner Authority: hello fellow recovering people pleasers.
Hello, over-functioning and over-empathic leaders.
All these things work until they don’t… and now here you are realizing so much of what made you successful was behavioral patterns born out of childhood trauma, emotional neglect…. And the entire effing world and systems and media and religion and school and everything that conditioned you to give your authority away!!!
Did I mention religion? You know, the kind that, in 3rd grade, threatened to leave you behind if you didn’t fall in line….
And so even though you are successful, maybe you find yourself doing the next course, or high-end mastermind, or upgrading your branding or whatever the thing is you think will get you to that nebulous “there.”
Even after all the success and stability- you still get flooded with doubt, overbook your calendar out of obligation, neglect the things that nourish you even though you thrive better if you do them…. And then you spiral into shame because you “aren’t doing it right.”
well, here we’re are. And you are totally doing it right. But don’t take it on my authority….
Slow down and check deep down in your own body, your own heart, in the place deeper and truer than all the voices….
What does that part of you say? Remember who you BE. And that you are the decider. You CAN trust yourself to BE YOU, do things your way, slow down…. Build certainty in your own authority.
AC