Sarah Jakes Roberts

It determined whether or not I spoke up in the meeting. It made me shut down. I got angry. Like, how did this show up in my life? And what do I wish I would have done instead? What would have been the power move that I did instead? And the beautiful thing about this is when you're reconciling it within yourself, you can say whatever you want to say to yourself.

It determined whether or not I spoke up in the meeting. It made me shut down. I got angry. Like, how did this show up in my life? And what do I wish I would have done instead? What would have been the power move that I did instead? And the beautiful thing about this is when you're reconciling it within yourself, you can say whatever you want to say to yourself.

Like, you may not, this may not be what I would have said in the meeting. Like, I wish I'd have told her to shut up. It's like, that may not be what you say in the meeting, but start practicing

Like, you may not, this may not be what I would have said in the meeting. Like, I wish I'd have told her to shut up. It's like, that may not be what you say in the meeting, but start practicing

what it feels like to use your voice, to show up in power, to do the opposite of what fear and anxiety and doubt, do the opposite of that, even if you're only doing it within yourself, because you have to exercise using your own power within, because the next time there's a moment like this, you get to capture and say, wait a minute, this is a moment where I get to choose to have faith or I get to choose to have fear.

what it feels like to use your voice, to show up in power, to do the opposite of what fear and anxiety and doubt, do the opposite of that, even if you're only doing it within yourself, because you have to exercise using your own power within, because the next time there's a moment like this, you get to capture and say, wait a minute, this is a moment where I get to choose to have faith or I get to choose to have fear.

And because I've already practiced how I want to show up in this space, this may be the moment where I dip my toe in the water and begin to show up.

And because I've already practiced how I want to show up in this space, this may be the moment where I dip my toe in the water and begin to show up.

Right, right.

Right, right.

Yeah, let me think about that. Yeah.

Yeah, let me think about that. Yeah.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So at the end of each chapter, we literally have this like marinate, activate prayer. So it's like these three sections was like, let's marinate on how you would have wanted to do something differently. And then let's activate it. The next time you're doing X, Y, and Z, try and show up in a way that allows power to move through you. And then a prayer to help you in those moments.

So at the end of each chapter, we literally have this like marinate, activate prayer. So it's like these three sections was like, let's marinate on how you would have wanted to do something differently. And then let's activate it. The next time you're doing X, Y, and Z, try and show up in a way that allows power to move through you. And then a prayer to help you in those moments.

Because it does create... Change is not always easy, even when we know it needs to be implemented.

Because it does create... Change is not always easy, even when we know it needs to be implemented.

It's just not.

It's just not.