ROOTS OF YOUR IMPACT

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Over the years, I’ve noticed something really interesting about my clients in our work on their impact. Their vision for impact has roots that extend back into childhood and even beyond, into the realm of the experiences of their ancestors.

The roots of your impact are based on what helped to form you. That includes your own experiences, as well as those of your ancestors, and society as a whole. All of those influences have come together to make you who you are today. Your vision for impact arises out of who you are now.

Just as the roots of your impact can be multigenerational and societal, what’s keeping you from that impact also includes a collective experience. For women and those perceived as women, that’s the collective experience of fear and oppression that continues to keep us silent and unheard. Invalidation by patriarchal culture of feminine gifts like intuition, embodiment, and healing play a role in creating unseen barriers.

I’m telling you all that because it can feel like:

1. your impact is a loose cannon to some people, coming out of nowhere, which makes it hard to garner support and collaborators.
2. all the work you’ve done on your mindset and other forms of personal development don’t seem to be enough to make having impact easier.