Many women are feeling a strong desire to shift things in our lives in a profound way. It might have started out as a whisper or a nudge. But for many of us, it is starting to feel urgent and essential to become more empowered, more authentic, and sovereign.
The word "sovereignty" is getting thrown around a lot lately in different contexts, and you may be wondering what it actually means…
What is Sovereignty?
Sovereignty is being grounded in self-worth and self-respect, listening to your body, and honoring your needs, limits, and values.
Sovereignty is owning your personal power and no longer being beholden to or at the whim of the external world to your own detriment.
It means being the expert and authority on what is right and best for you and setting the necessary boundaries accordingly.
Sovereignty means pulling back from people-pleasing, over-giving, over-functioning, codependency, and emotional caretaking.
It means prioritizing our inner peace and well-being without guilt or shame.
It means no longer waiting for other people to change or for conditions to be perfect in order to be happy.
Sovereignty means being in harmony and right-relationship with ourselves, our bodies, other people, and the world around us.
Speak up more and set limits and boundaries that honor our humanity
Ask for what we need and want without guilt or shame
Honor our own needs and state them clearly and honestly
Have a more spacious, gentle, and loving relationship with ourselves
Stand our ground when needed and stop over-functioning for other people
Allow ourselves more pleasure, rest, play, and unstructured time
Trust that we can navigate any resulting backlash when we speak our truth
Allow other people to have their lessons and struggles without overstepping or trying to rescue them from their own lives
It’s safer to be small, silent, subservient, and self-sacrificing.
It’s easier to just not rock the boat and let things play out as they always have.
It’s too much work to make a change and too scary.
The turbulence of change is not worth it; better to stay with the status quo.
People will abandon me if I start to speak up and set boundaries.
I'm being selfish when I voice my limits, needs, and boundaries.
My relationships will suffer if I start becoming more empowered.
I will end up alone if I embody more confidence and own my value
This conditioning is a byproduct of the familial programming we internalized as children growing up in a patriarchal society that says females are “less than.”
Understandably, as little girls and teenagers, we needed and depended on the external world for survival, sustenance, and emotional nourishment. And we had to adapt to the negative messaging and internalize it to fit into the world, our families, and our friend groups.
But the very messages that we internalized in order to adapt to a dysfunctional family and to a harsh world growing up, become a massive barrier to us living as the empowered, conscious women we are longing to be at this time in history.
The very things that helped us survive as children become huge barriers to our fulfillment and sovereignty as adult women.
For many women, this tendency to equate safety with subservience, silence, and being self-sacrificing remains in place their entire lives, and they never get the chance to break the cycle and experience the sovereignty that their soul has longed for–that was their birthright. Perhaps you may have had women like this in your own family.
Now is a powerful time in which women are waking up to the dysfunction that we have inherited both culturally and personally, and ready to break the cycle in big ways, to move beyond the “maternal horizon” and into more inner peace, empowerment, joy, fulfillment, pleasure and harmony in their lives.
And the World Needs More Sovereign Women
One of the most damaging false conclusions we come to as little girls growing up in a patriarchal world is that safety is found in subservience, meaning we are loved, admired, and supported the most when we are being small, silent, self-sacrificing, and not rocking the boat.
For many, this is a very deep-seated, unconscious belief in the background, one we may not even be conscious of. We may have watched our mothers, grandmothers, and aunts embody this belief both overtly and covertly and internalized this mindset to be the safest route to being seen as good, accepted, lovable, and supported in life.
So how do we step into more sovereignty in our lives?
As little girls, we may have been punished, humiliated, withdrawn from, or dismissed when we displayed sovereignty in moments, such as when we expressed independence, said no to something, disagreed with others or when we simply felt naturally confident and unashamed.
Due to these past experiences, we may be holding fears about what could happen to us if we stepped into more sovereignty, empowerment, and unapologetic self-ownership. These fears are nothing to be ashamed of, as they are based on real, lived experiences of being painfully punished for expressions of our sovereignty in the past.
In a nutshell, sovereignty does not feel safe to the inner child due to her history of familial and cultural conditioning, and left unaddressed, this old conditioning causes the inner child to unconsciously sabotage our adult goals and needs.
This is partly why we may shy away from expressing sovereignty as adult women, as the echoes of these past painful memories still live in our subconscious mind, causing the inner child to be fearful about any potential risk of repeating that pain.
It begins with Inner Mothering
The way that transition takes place is through a process I call “inner mothering,” in which the inner child feels increasingly safe and supported from within by the adult self and gradually, through many micro-experiences, begins to trust that sovereignty is safe.
The inner child needs loving attention and connection in order to make a correction to those false conclusions made in the earliest years of our lives, when survival was primary and we were dependent on the adults around us who may have encouraged or enforced an attitude of subservience in us as little girls.
As a global expert on the healing the Mother Wound, I’ve put together a powerful Mini-Course to share with you a potent process to help you begin to cultivate an inner mothering practice that will help your inner child feel safer with sovereignty.
When this happens over time, things shift positively in every area of your life.
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Here's what I cover in each session.
Session 3: Stepping into SOVEREIGNTY: Birthing Our Female Power Requires Healing The Mother Wound
You find it hard to set boundaries and speak your truth consistently
You're seeing old patterns come up and want to shift them for good
You're increasingly aware of how patriarchy has impacted you and want support
Your relationship with your mother has been a source of pain and/or frustration
You feel challenged by what the situation in the world is bringing up for you
You want to step into an empowered approach to your life
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