Lisa Murphy argues that building your identity around labels like victim or survivor keeps you stuck. She chose not to join MeToo to avoid that anchor, and instead frames forgiveness as releasing others for what they knew then, not excusing what they did.
Hi, everyone. Do you find that in your business or even in your daily life, labeling is a problem? And I'm not talking about the labels that we use for salt and pepper. I'm talking about the labels that we use for ourselves, maybe for our family and friends, maybe for our team members that work for us. The truth is, there's a reason I never joined the MeToo movement. It's not because I couldn't have. It's because those labels are disempowering. I didn't get a tattoo to signify that because that would be a reminder all the time that I was disempowered. That would be keeping myself in a victim status instead of moving forward into what I like to think of as the hero status. The hero of status is that I'm the hero of my own story, that I have chosen more and better rather than choosing to be anchored to the past. I've moved on from the past. It doesn't mean I forget. I've forgiven people not for their actions, but for what they knew at the time. How do we apply this in business or as coaches? Interesting.
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