Women Empowerment

W o m e n E m p o w e r m e n t

MY FOREVER LOVE

Regina Robinson International Speaker, Publisher, Author & Inner Confidence Strategist

God, You are my first love! I desire to share all the love I have within me with You. You continue to show me through Your Love how special I am to You. I pray that with every heartbeat my Love is connected to You. God, I thank You for loving me even when I didn’t love myself. You are my forever love!

God, it’s amazing to Love You knowing Your love is unwavering and it never fails. My love for You continues to grow stronger every day. I am committed to Our Love. You truly are the reason I breathe, live, and love. Our love is worth it. You are my forever love!

Every moment I spend drawing closer to You reveals a deeper level of who I am because of Your love for me. Every day Your love gives me the strength to smile, laugh, and believe in what it means to be loved. The love and blessings You grant me each day fuel me to continue living. The love I feel from You runs so deep I can’t explain it. Your love allows me to be me. The overflow of Your love is present in my laugh, my smile, my tears, my joy, and my peace of knowing You will always love me know matter what. You are my forever love!

God, I can’t thank you enough for always loving me. I am reminded daily of the Love You have for me. I know that I am never alone. All of me is because of You. Your Love encourages me to continue each day. The peace of Your Love gives me the courage to be the woman You desire of me. In Your Love, I find stability in knowing all things are possible. I vow in Faith to always Love, You. I promise to love You now and forever. The love we share can never be replaced. You are my forever love!

God, I can never repay You for the unconditional Love, You have given me. I pray every day I wake up that my life is pleasing to You. I am grateful for Your Love. My life is full today because of Your willingness to touch the inner me and make me whole. I pray the world sees the joy You are in my life. You are my forever love!

God, the Love you have deposited in me I vow to share with the women You have assigned to my life. Every time I pray, speak, coach, and love I pray it is a reflection of the love You have deposited in me. I will forever cherish the love we share. There is no me, without You. Because of Your Love for me I know what it feels like to truly be loved unconditionally. You are everything to me! You are my forever love!

God, every day I wake up I pray my life honors the Love You have for me. My heart forever belongs to You. Our love is unforgettable! All of my heart belongs to You. I am committed to loving You! You are my forever love!

Regina Robinson

www.reginarobinsonspeaks.com

Family & Relationship

Audrey Lingg Life Engineer Mentor

"Enjoying being a woman... "

Can you enjoy being a woman? Before answering this question, I took on the task of looking up the meaning of being a woman in the dictionary and found that it said “ an adult female person ” . I said to myself wryly, "wow how deep that meaning is. " I really expected to find something else, so I went to look up the etymology of the word and discovered that the word woman is derived from Latin, specifically from the adjective “Mulier ” which means soft or soft. More surprised, because woman, through history has shown that it is the opposite of that adjective.

So I decided to do a survey with the women around me, understand family, friends, and co-workers, and explore with them what it meant to them to be a woman. Many associated the concept with pain, courage, strength, sensitivity, work, and the ability to do several tasks simultaneously and give life. On the other hand, I explored with them that they enjoyed being a woman and found that women can enjoy their femininity as long as they accept that we were born women and accept our bodies. We love and enjoy being a woman when we can listen to ourselves and answer the following questions:

How do I feel? What do I need? What can I do to meet my needs? I understood that femininity is not something that is learned, but that it is within ourselves and we have to find the space to be able to agree with it. Clothes, makeup, accessories, etc. they are part of being a woman, but beyond identifying ourselves with our sex and gender, it is also a way of communicating and representing that our being is aligned with what we truly want to be. So to answer the initial question, can you enjoy being a woman? The answer is YES you can.

I invite you to enjoy being a woman. Here I share with you seven (7) reasons why I recommend you love and enjoy yourself.

1. We are bearers of life. 2. We have a sixth sense 3. We have emotional intelligence 4. We are sensitive 5. We are strong 6. We are pain tolerant 7. We are multi-orgasmic

Finally, we enjoy being a woman when we love, accept, and recognize our ability to connect with ourselves, forgive ourselves and forgive ourselves, and above all try to understand ourselves every day.

AudreyLingg

https://empowered-livingacademy.business.site

Do You Have an Energy Leak?

Maria Natapov Stepparenting Coach & Strategist

This time of year when work gets busier with year-end deliverables, school’ s back in session, in some climates - like here in New England - the days are quickly getting shorter, and with the busy holiday season just around the corner, it’ s no surprise that you ’ re feeling drained.

Before you chalk it up to life ’ s busy day-to-day grind, I invite you to slow down to ponder, is that really all that’ s operating here making you feel depleted? Or is it something else?

Is it possible that you have an energy leak? If you ’ re finding yourself more tired than usual, keep reading because it’ s exactly what we ’ re exploring today!

Do you have an energy leak?

It’ s generally good practice to be intentional about what you want the end of the year to look like and where you want to be spending your energy.

In a recent podcast episode, I share an exercise to use on yourself and several important people and aspects of your life to detect what you want more of and less of going forward to create a life of true alignment and joy.

Find the show notes for that episode at synergisticstepparenting.com/53, which touches briefly on the concept of energy leaks. Here, however, I’d like to explore a specific kind of leak that might go unnoticed. It’ s a leak that occurs right under your nose… in your home.

It’s the tension that happens between you and your partner or between you and your stepchild. These leaks can occur due to hurt, disappointment or resentment.

Meet Jenei who came to me saying …

“I’m turning into the parent I never wanted to be. The stress and fatigue are overwhelming. Every day is a power struggle, and I am losing it! I resort to yelling and threatening to get my daughter’s attention which causes her to become distant and disengaged.

Our relationship is suffering, and I have no idea what to do.

Can you relate?

These are common dynamics, but they wreak havoc on all involved. Oftentimes not only on the stepparent and the child, but also on the bio-parent/partner as well and on any other children present in the household.

Have you ever walked into a room, and you don’t know what happened before you got there, but you could feel the tension or negativity right away like a bad stench? You most likely had a visceral response to it both emotionally and even physically.

That’s exactly what these tense dynamics cause for the other members of your household.

And because it’s taking place in the home, it’s particularly damaging. Why?

Because your home is your oasis. It’s the place you’re supposed to go to for respite from the rest of the world, it’s your safe space.

Home is where you relax, recuperate, rejuvenate, fill your cup, and cocoon and nurture yourself. None of which is truly possible to do when there is tension and negative dynamics at play.

The Problem with Common Ways People Address the Energy Leak

Someone might choose to deal with these issues by saying “Oh, I just won’t go home, I’ll do other things.

But the idea is not to just escape. Because if you don’t deal with it and don’t clean up the mess, you still have an energy leak and a resource leak.

Another way someone might choose to deal with this situation is to break away from these people and this life in a more permanent way.

Now, I’m not advising anyone to stay in a situation that you recognize is toxic, not for you or doesn’t serve you. Maybe you find yourself here because you didn’t realize that it was toxic from the beginning. Or maybe it turned toxic.

Either way, staying in that is not something I’m advocating for.

However, is that truly what’s going on?

Think of the family and life you’ve been building. Is throwing all of that away really the only option?

After all, “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. ” – Neil Gaiman, The

Graveyard Book

Has saying that it’s a toxic situation become a convenient way to look at it which is to blame others?

Could it be that that’s what’s operating there - blaming others and looking at things through a negative lens?

Are you forgetting the reasons that you fell in love with these people, to begin with? Because you did fall in love with them. At one point, you did choose them.

Can you see them through that lens again? If it were possible, do you want to try it?

Is there a belief that’s operating in you that’s preventing you from seeing things for what they are and keeping you stuck?

Is there a pattern that’s operating where you and your partner or your child are stuck in a response cycle that you can’t seem to get out of?

In the case of the latter, it may be a pattern that might not have started in this relationship. It’s possible that it started years before from a prior experience.

Usually, beliefs and patterns are closely related. But there are subtle differences. Beliefs are thoughts that you think for a long time.

So, for example, if my partner is carefully choosing their words around me, then I might think that they are lying to me and aren’t telling me the whole truth.

When in fact, this belief might be dead wrong. Maybe they deeply care about you and are really invested in not hurting your feelings and want to preserve the relationship which is why they are carefully considering how their words might make you feel.

Or maybe you’ve given signs in the past that you’re not open to their shares and don’t welcome them.

On the other hand, patterns are how each of you responds in situations that come up and involve not only how you feel but also how you act in response to those feelings.

Most often these patterns occur in unpleasant, uncomfortable or negative situations because those are times you feel most vulnerable, and your response is your brain’s way of protecting you.

These misunderstandings are very common in all relationships but especially so in blended families because not only is the couple still getting to know each other, but the stepparent is still working to build trust, rapport, and understanding with the child(ren).

Not to mention when it comes to beliefs and patterns, you have blind spots – we all do. Sometimes you might not be aware that a particular belief is operating, when in fact it is.

There are several reasons for this …

1. You’re not aware that not everyone shares your particular point of view on the subject. 2. These are not things we typically talk about or explore in school or even as part of our regular conversations societally. 3. You’re too close to the situation to see the forest from the trees. 4. The situation is too emotionally-charged and you’re caught in a swirl, oscillating between 2 or more viewpoints, stuck not knowing how to get out. You’re too invested in the outcome.

To truly resolve the energy leak, you have to address it at its core. And to get to the core, it needs to be addressed on 3 levels:

1.Identify and address the belief at the core of the emotional response 2.Identify and address the pattern of behavior in response to said emotional response 3.Create a disruption in the cycle from your highest self of how you want to show up in the relationship and from honoring the truth of the relationship you want to have

Though this process can be simple it is not easy, because most of these beliefs and patterns have been operating for a long time. The mind creates strong attachments to operating the same way as the brain loves to go on autopilot to conserve energy.

Which is why having a guide, partner and cheerleader on the journey is so beneficial and often it’s the difference between reaching your goals and desired outcomes or not.

This is exactly what Jenei got after working with me. Here’s what she has to say …

“Maria was a most positive and supportive ally during my parenting struggles, giving me tools to establish a much closer, less stressful relationship with my daughter.

I took away how to take better care of myself and give myself a break so I can be more fully present in my role as a parent.

The more I worked at building trust with her in a non-reactive, non-judgmental environment where she felt safe to share her thoughts, the closer and more fulfilling our relationship became.

Action Items

Of course, I have some action items for you! If you find yourself struggling and would like to learn more about what you can do, head on over to synergisticstepparenitng.com/work and fill out a brief questionnaire to schedule a complimentary clarity call.

I’d love to help you identify the next best step for you to start moving towards creating the life and relationships you dream of.

Maria Natapov

https://synergisticsteppar enting.com/

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Investigate to Avoid Miscommunications

Nicole Mason, Relationship Coach + RTT Practitioner

Communication can be uncomfortable. It doesn ’t come naturally to use. We usually learn how to interact – and manage disputes – from our family, friends, teachers, and tv when we were children. And, if we ’ re being honest, most of it was pretty dysfunctional. From being passive-aggressive and using guilt to get someone to do what they want to give the silent treatment, we didn ’t have the best role models to communicate through difficulties. It shows up so much even in the fact that communication is the #1 reason couples get marriage counseling.

Unfortunately, marriage counseling doesn ’t always provide a path to good communication, either. Marriage counseling will always help you air out your grievances. But, it doesn ’t usually provide a lot of time for learning the skills on how to communicate better. This is why marriage counseling doesn ’t have the best track record for saving marriages.

I learned as a divorce attorney: If you communicate well, you ’ll do conflict well. If you do conflict well, you ’ll do marriage well.

But, the biggest hiccup to communicating well is our belief that communicating is hard and conflict is bad. In fact, we spend so much of our time and energy trying to avoid conflict and therefore trying to avoid communicating, that we make everything so much bigger and heavier than it needs to be. And, that is what complicates communication!

When communication shows up everywhere in your life: money, your values, parenting, planning, goals, setting boundaries, executing projects, and division of responsibilities, and that’ s just at home! It’ s no wonder your communication isn ’t going well. You ’ re avoiding it as much as possible because it seems daunting and overwhelming.

Let’ s break this down a little bit.