A speaker reflects on how Disney's fairy tales set her up to expect rescue, then traces her divorce as the moment she realized she had to save herself. She reframes hardship as something happening for her, not to her, and argues that personal agency is the only path forward.
When I was a little girl, I used to dream of the day when my knight in shining armor would come and I would be that princess, and then all my problems would be solved and taken care of. And I was sorely disappointed when adulthood came and I realized that nobody's gonna save me. I have to do that all by myself and all for myself. And I blame Disney for that because I feel like I've been lied to my whole entire life. And after my divorce I realized that it was indeed up to me. I had the opportunity to recreate my life in the way that I wanted to recreate it, not according to somebody's expectations or somebody else's rules or whatever. It was up to me. And the way that I did that was by looking at my divorce as something that was happening for me, not something that was happening to me. It's a small word, but it's a big difference. When something is happening to you, it puts you in victim mentality and it takes away your power. When something is happening for you, you get to learn from the experience and you get to grow from that, and you use whatever the gifts are from the experience as a way to move forward. That's how I did it, and if I can do it, so can you. So maybe it's time you scheduled that discovery call so that we can get you started. What do you think?
