PURE UNADULTERATED, UNAPOLOGETIC POWERFUL LOVE: RE-MEMBERING WHAT MATTERS TO ME

This past weekend, I had the good fortune of participating in Centering  Leadership in Presence.  This program is an encounter designed specifically for women wanting to step more fully into their innate power to affect change, the space was held by Rev. angel Kyodo williams at Omega Institute. The opportunity to center my leadership and lean all the way into my powerful feminine energy in the spring beauty of upstate New York was literally a breath of fresh air.

POWER REDEFINED, REIMAGINED, & REDIRECTED

In our society, we are pretty much force fed the notion that there is somehow a limited supply of power. And because of the perceived scarcity of power, we exist in spaces which communicate (to women in particular) that we have to work our ass off and bend and contort ourselves so that we can be seen as valuable or worth having power being bestowed upon them. 
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One of the most important lesson I received form Centering Leadership in Presence is that the way in which our culture would have us to define and believe the way power works is completely absurd. It has become clear to me that this absurdity is intentionally designed to sustain an imbalanced power structure primarily within ourselves as women. The internal turmoil women experience within an imbalanced power structure results in an interruption in access to the divine-given power women already possess by virtue of our existence. And it is this constant interruption to access to this resource that severely impacts the way women are seen and heard in the home, in schools, in houses of worship, and in professional spaces.
To counter the traditional and unsustainable way we are taught to think about power, Rev. Angel offered four simple, yet mind shattering truths during the program:

1. Power is energy. It is simply energy directed in an intentional way.
2. Power is reciprocal. When your power increases, my power increases.
3. Power is infinite. Power is abundant for all of us. Power is innate in all of us, therefore it cannot be bestowed or taken away from any of us.
4. Power is about balance. It is not a matter of feminine v. masculine power. It is a matter of balance between productive and receptive energies. Each of us — whether we identify as a woman or man, have both energies. This truth completely sets aside the mentality du jour of “us v. them/men v. women.” Ultimately, this is about returning our collective to a more balanced state of power for women, men, children, our environment, and our ecosystem.

GROUNDING MY POWER TO WHAT MATTERS (TO ME)

My time at Omega Institute and participating in Centering Leadership in Presence graciously invited me to drop myself into and reconnect to what matters to me. Not what matters to my son. Not what matters to my mother or my pets. Not what matters to my community. Being in this retreat gave me the space and time I needed to re-member soul to what truly matters to me. And the moment I reconnected to what matters, I felt a renewed and intense level of energy and purpose.

To embody and extend pure unadulterated, unapologetic powerful love is all that matters to me. This is all the “true north” I will ever need to tap into, and release all of this here Black Girl Magic that is my innate power.

My invitation to all of my mothers, aunties, and sisters wanting to show up in their lives fully in their power: my invitation to each of you is that you commit to taking the time to re-member to what matters to you, tap into that source, and release all of your beautiful power in a world that so desperately needs it.