Empowerment represents the process of enabling individuals or groups to gain control over their own lives and make independent choices.

I much prefer the word empowerment vs. power. Empowerment is about YOU. It’s about gaining freedom and sovereignty over your own life. It’s never about controlling others or gaining a foot hold over others. Empowerment is a unifying word where everyone comes into their own force and light within, whereas power to me is an external force of duality where one group always loses.

In this day in age our white, heterosexual, male dominated, controlled, suppressed system has held the traditional construct of ‘power’ for far too long. But that is coming to a close.