Authentic power comes from being in your most ‘adult’ self. … You must decide to be approving and accepting of yourself as you are. … When you can look at yourself and say, ‘Gosh, I’m really feeling like a needy, pathetic loser today’ and just accept that’s who you are today, how you are feeling today and not make any of it wrong, you have just embraced what it means to love yourself and approve of yourself. It is only from accepting yourself that you can tap your power to take your life back.

It is through this act that you begin to fill your empty cup. It is from this place of self acceptance that you have authentic power. It is from this place that you no longer have any fear of somebody finding you out. It is from this place that you will fully begin to experience freedom. And, as pathetic as you may feel on any given day, when you make this kind of peace with your ‘pathetic-ness,’ then you can really be empowered ….

~ Mary Robinson Reynolds

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