stand in your power
STAND in yer POW-er
stænd ɪn jər ˈpaʊərListen
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to claim, embody, and exercise one's full personal authority, capability, and voice without diminishing oneself to accommodate others' discomfort or expectations; the phrase draws on an understanding of power as something that already inheres in a person and can be occupied fully or partially depending on one's confidence, self-awareness, and willingness to take up space; it is particularly used in coaching, therapy, and feminist empowerment contexts to encourage women and marginalised people to resist internalised messages that their assertiveness, expertise, or ambition is inappropriate; standing in your power is not aggressiveness or dominance but the quiet, grounded confidence of someone who knows their worth and speaks and acts from that knowledge
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