In a time when we are seeing power at its most abusive, malformed, and tyrannical, I am reminding myself that at its core, power is sacred energy.

Power is our life force uncorked. It is our capacity to love, create, discover, connect, and grow. It is the aliveness and possibility that lives within each one of us.

When we filter our power through love and then allow it to transcend the borders of our being to touch the world around us, something happens. Things shift, alchemize, and revolve - often in surprising ways. I’ve seen this again and again - in my own life, in my DV work, with my coaching clients, in the collective.

It’s easy and tempting to shrink from power when we see and feel the ways oppressive power - force fueled by fear - is inflicting pain, trauma, and havoc in the world around us. It makes sense that we might want to run from our own power, fearing it may be twisted in the same way.

But I believe we must do the opposite. We need our power, and so does the world.

So let’s remember to re/claim power as a holy and necessary energy that lives within us and between us, always, and then set it loose in the world.