Empowerment Through Choice #shorts #TransformativeJourney #MindOverAdversity

And so I started to realize, oh, my God, I have a choice. And that was the most empowering thing, because I had felt like a victim for so much in life. But most prevalent, right, was this accident. I'd been hit. I wasn't doing anything wrong. I had a brain injury. Nothing could be done about it. You know, everyone would say, oh, yeah, she was a victim. Well, when you're a victim, you give your power away to the external situation. And, you know, my internal response was, oh, it's not fair. Why did this happen to me? You know, I was angry, and so my reality was terrible. But as I was meditating and I was realizing, like, oh, I'm not my thoughts. Like, there's something beyond this. And like, wow, could I actually choose to have different thoughts? And maybe I replaced this with a different interaction. And I realized, yeah, my internal response could shift, and I could decide how I wanted to interact, how I wanted to react.