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How does that feel? Do you embrace it or push it away? We are endowed with power by our very birth and then shy away from the knowledge and acceptance of it. What are we afraid of? I think it is important that, as women, we study power and what it means to us. The dictionary defines power as: "having the ability to do, act or produce, great ability to do, act or affect strongly; vigor; force; strength.”

Power means to me:

 Standing strongly in my own center and living from my heart.

 Honesty, wisdom and strength

 How can we increase "healthy power" as women? Information is powerful!

Consider:

 Spiritual power

 Intellectual power

 Physical power

 Financial power

 Emotional power

 Healing power

 Love power

When I think of powerful female role models, I think of Eleanor Roosevelt, Oprah, Princess Diana, Maya Angelou, my mother and grandmother, Michelle Obama, Barbara Bush, Rabbi Gaylia Rooks, Rosa Parks, Mother Terresa. (There are so many powerful women!) Who are your role models? In what ways are you like them? What do you admire most about them? Women think of powerful or "power over"? Do you think of power as domination and having control over others? As women, we need to redefine power. It is time for us to create power, be visible power, and accept power.