RELATIONAL EMPOWERMENT

Here is a simple and handy chart that outlines the key distinctions between traditionally advocated "individual" empowerment and the infinitely more fulfilling relational empowerment.

My Deeply-Feeling friends . . .

When relationships become challenging - is your Deeply-Feeling nature a gift or a curse?

It can certainly feel like a curse:

~ To be seen as too sensitive and too tender-hearted.

~ To feel your own (and other's) feelings so intensely that you can't tune them out.

~ To desire connection so powerfully that you tie yourself up in knots - including:

Let it be and let it unfold.

Those are the most accurate terms to describe what life has trained me to master.

This is not a typical life focus. Most people are accustomed to focusing on what is stable and "tried and true."

However, my path was different from the beginning.

I experienced my first profound letting go when my parents divorced when I was 6. I did not take that one well. In fact, I made up stories to explain my father's absence. I told classmates that my dad had been, "arres...