Sarah Jakes Roberts

Fear is powerful. Shame is powerful. Our doubt is powerful. It's powerful enough to keep you stuck in relationships. It's powerful enough to keep you alone, to keep you from pursuing your purpose and a business deal, whatever. It's got power too. And if you're going to have power, you got to have the right target.

Fear is powerful. Shame is powerful. Our doubt is powerful. It's powerful enough to keep you stuck in relationships. It's powerful enough to keep you alone, to keep you from pursuing your purpose and a business deal, whatever. It's got power too. And if you're going to have power, you got to have the right target.

And instead of trying to target something that's going to make you feel better about those things, we have to face off with the fear. We have to face off with the doubt and with the shame. We've got to look that thing in the eye and say, at the end of the day, I no longer want to be controlled by you any longer. You've had my name for far too long. You've dictated my destiny for far too long.

And instead of trying to target something that's going to make you feel better about those things, we have to face off with the fear. We have to face off with the doubt and with the shame. We've got to look that thing in the eye and say, at the end of the day, I no longer want to be controlled by you any longer. You've had my name for far too long. You've dictated my destiny for far too long.

I want to be better now. than who fear says I am. I wanna be better than what shame says that I am. And in order to direct our power in the right direction, we gotta know who our opponent is. And so I would say to anyone who believes that I don't have what it takes or I don't have enough worth, that as long as you believe that, it is true.

I want to be better now. than who fear says I am. I wanna be better than what shame says that I am. And in order to direct our power in the right direction, we gotta know who our opponent is. And so I would say to anyone who believes that I don't have what it takes or I don't have enough worth, that as long as you believe that, it is true.

What we need to be saying instead is that I need enough power to finally get out of this pattern of thinking that has kept me stuck that has kept me feeling defeated, and that is a stronger belief. And I believe that anyone who's going to introduce a stronger belief has to be able to say, I am this and that. Like I may be a teen mom, but I'm still a girl who has dreams.

What we need to be saying instead is that I need enough power to finally get out of this pattern of thinking that has kept me stuck that has kept me feeling defeated, and that is a stronger belief. And I believe that anyone who's going to introduce a stronger belief has to be able to say, I am this and that. Like I may be a teen mom, but I'm still a girl who has dreams.

I may have come from a broken home, but I still want to pursue this. I do not want these statistics to end up defining who I am for the rest of my life. And so just because I'm this doesn't mean that I won't be that either. And so being able to live in this duality so that fear doesn't convince us that who we were yesterday defines who we're going to be tomorrow.

I may have come from a broken home, but I still want to pursue this. I do not want these statistics to end up defining who I am for the rest of my life. And so just because I'm this doesn't mean that I won't be that either. And so being able to live in this duality so that fear doesn't convince us that who we were yesterday defines who we're going to be tomorrow.

This thing has real power. It has enough power to keep me from moving, enough power to keep me from growing. Now that I have identified that it actually has power, I want to talk about how I want to extract the power, reclaim the power that fear has, that shame has and pointed in a direction that will allow me to experience wholeness and joy and peace and confidence.

This thing has real power. It has enough power to keep me from moving, enough power to keep me from growing. Now that I have identified that it actually has power, I want to talk about how I want to extract the power, reclaim the power that fear has, that shame has and pointed in a direction that will allow me to experience wholeness and joy and peace and confidence.

Power Moves is all about really reclaiming power from fear, from our shame, from our past and recognizing that power moves. Just because it had enough power to stop you in your past doesn't mean that it gets to keep that power. When you reclaim it, you can begin moving in the direction of transformation

Power Moves is all about really reclaiming power from fear, from our shame, from our past and recognizing that power moves. Just because it had enough power to stop you in your past doesn't mean that it gets to keep that power. When you reclaim it, you can begin moving in the direction of transformation

from the inside out, not just because I want to get a new job or I want to build something on the outside. When power moves in you, then power can move through you.

from the inside out, not just because I want to get a new job or I want to build something on the outside. When power moves in you, then power can move through you.

I love that you asked this because then we need to study how does this show up in my life? So I on in my intimate relationships, I would never speak up. So if someone projected something onto me and said, oh, you know, Sarah doesn't want to do this or hey, we're going to do this. I would never use my voice, even if I disagreed. I would just go with the flow. I didn't want to be a disruptor.

I love that you asked this because then we need to study how does this show up in my life? So I on in my intimate relationships, I would never speak up. So if someone projected something onto me and said, oh, you know, Sarah doesn't want to do this or hey, we're going to do this. I would never use my voice, even if I disagreed. I would just go with the flow. I didn't want to be a disruptor.

I didn't want to detract from anyone, even if it was a major decision. And so I recognized that the power of fear was showing up in keeping me from actually using my voice. And so I have identified it. Now I've seen how it shows up in my life to go to the end of the day and to reconcile. How did the power of fear, the power of shame show up? It didn't. determine what I put on.

I didn't want to detract from anyone, even if it was a major decision. And so I recognized that the power of fear was showing up in keeping me from actually using my voice. And so I have identified it. Now I've seen how it shows up in my life to go to the end of the day and to reconcile. How did the power of fear, the power of shame show up? It didn't. determine what I put on.