Winter Season of Empowerment

The winter season is the most difficult to achieve because it's the time when the practise of becoming who you truly were meant to be which will become especially apparent by how you deal with your peers. It is difficult to consistently be your own person during your adolescent years since you're pulled in so many different directions.

During this season, however, you will be empowered to be the person you uniquely are without feeling awkward or guilty.

Consistently being your true self is the most important aspect of this season, but it's the hardest thing to maintain, isn't it? Winter highlights the last phase of the self-empowerment continuum.
After completing this phase, you should feel pretty secure in your own skin, asserting your own values.
This doesn't mean you won't revert backwards to the fall and even summer seasons from time to time.

However, you should bounce back quickly enough and regain your self-confidence.

Having come this far, you'll feel much more certain and confident of yourself too.

During the winter season, you'll be encouraged to choose friends who are cohesive with your own values.
You'll also celebrate being yourself, and smile often.

In other words, you will tell your peers, through your actions, how you deserve to be treated. Here are a few ways to empower yourself during this season: 1.

Never underestimate yourself.
It's easy to be down on yourself once in a while.

Perhaps you've made a mistake. Or, you may have said or done something that isn't very cool.

One way you can underestimate yourself is by acting as if another person is more important than you are.
As you traverse through the winter season, you must never undermine who you truly are.

Let your true self shine through your actions and words.

2.
Stand up against peer pressure.
Peer pressure can be devastating to being yourself.

Don't feel pressured to do anything you don't feel comfortable doing, just to fit in and be accepted. You are strong now.

So, you don't always need to be accepted to feel empowered.
3. Listen to your gut.
Your gut is that inner voice which tells you it's unhappy or bothered after you say or do something that is not in line with your values.
It is important to listen to your gut before acting and making important decisions.

Your gut will tell you what's important.
You must trust and honour it by carefully listening and allowing feelings to surface to the forefront of your heart. 4.

Face negative feelings head on.
It can be very difficult to face negative feelings head on.

Sometimes, those negative feelings come from within. Other times, they're generated from other people, such as your peers or siblings.

No matter how many negative feelings and emotions you experience, try to deal with them in a healthy manner by making sure that they don't undermine who you truly are.

There is nothing more motivating and invigorating then seeing a teen girl who is so certain of herself she won't allow anyone to put her down or to tell her how to look or behave. I wish all of you a similar experience of self-empowerment.