Google AI states: Claiming one’s self is an act where a person takes full control of their own identity, life choices, or legal status. It means you stop letting others define who you are or manage your choices. An act of personal power, self-awareness’s and clear boundaries. Claiming who we are as individuals is the ongoing process of defining our core values, beliefs, instead of letting outside forces or past pain dictate our worth. Choosing an authentic self-identity based on personal truth rather than external expectations.
Claiming who we are and owning our power after a brain injury is very important. Very important because if we do not claim who we are in our new normal, other people will lead us to believe we are a brain injury. In the process, we may lose ourselves in the belief that we are a diagnosis, a set of symptoms, a prognosis, a label, a stereotype and a stigmatization. In this believe we may find ourselves stuck in a cycle of striving to prove that we are not stuck. But still stuck in explaining, justifying and defending that we are not impacted.
Impacted by a brain injury. In the process we may find ourselves stuck in being angry. Or we may develop a learned helplessness in which we may feel powerless to change anything. And in our feeling helpless and powerless, we may willingly give our power away. But the good news is that we can claim who we are, live life on life’s terms and own our power. The power to live our lives beyond a diagnosis, a set of symptoms, silver bullets, magic potions, a prognosis, a label, a stereotype, and a stigmatization to learn to thrive in life.
Below are a list of articles that I have written during the past 19 years. Articles in which I share information that may help you to claim yourself and in the process own your power. Learn to claim yourself (as I needed to learn how to do) and own the immense power that you have at your access (as I needed to learn how to do and realize). Awareness and the ability to create in your life beyond what you may presently believe is possible. Possible by claiming who you are as an individual and by learning to own your power each day.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” Robert Frost
“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs
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