Xtraordinary Women Magazine August/September 2015 | Page 44
Woman!
Become
who
you
are!
Live
from
your
power!
Macarena
Vergara
www.macarenavergara.com
It’s
that
time
of
the
year
again.
It’s
Women’s
Month,
and
I
was
asked
to
write
something
for
this
issue
on
women’s
empowerment,
which
happens
to
be
my
favorite
subject
in
the
world!
Now,
what
do
you
write
about
when
there
is
so
much
information
out
there,
so
many
different
messages
about
what
it
is
to
be
an
empowered
woman,
so
many
‘how-‐to’
lists
and
expectations…
So
I
decided
to
sit
very
still
and
ask
myself
one
question,
and
see
what
came
up:
What
does
it
mean
for
you,
right
now,
to
live
from
your
power
as
a
woman?
Every
one
of
us
can
ask
herself
that
question,
and
see
what
comes
up.
My
own
instinctual
answer
was
this:
living
from
my
power
as
a
woman
right
now
is
living
according
to
my
values,
expressing
my
voice,
and
gifting
the
world
from
my
essence.
These
are
for
me
the
three
fundamental
pillars
of
a
coherent
existence,
of
being
in
integrity
with
myself,
of
being
aligned
to
who
I
really
am.
I
believe
that
if
this
platform
is
solid,
if
I
am
being
my
truth,
then
all
I
have
to
do
now
is
fly!
Our
values
are
what
is
most
important
to
us
in
life,
what
we
stand
for.
In
a
previous
article
I
spoke
about
how
crucial
it
is
to
discover
what
these
are,
and
how
they
can
become
a
wonderful
compass
for
our
lives.
Our
values
are
what
we
need
deep
down
inside
–
and
what
we
are
always
consciously
or
unconsciously
seeking.
Our
values
are
what
we
are
about
at
our
core,
what
we
–
again,
consciously
or
unconsciously
–
are
giving
to
the
world.
A
good
values
assessment
can
get
you
to
distill
what
these
are
for
you.
I
did
this
exercise
some
years
ago
with
a
coach,
and
when
I
saw
on
paper
what
my
values
are
and
started
aligning
what
I
did
to
them,
I
started
to
feel
more
in
my
power.
Today,
for
example,
I
can
see
clearly
that
my
business
is
an
expression
of
my
values.
My
coaching
ethos
is
all
about
cultivating
self-‐awareness:
this
is
my
top
value
of
all
time
–
the
most
important
thing
for
me
on
this
earth
is
that
we
know
ourselves!
It’s
about
dedication
and
perseverance
in
taking
the
journey
towards
becoming
who
you
are:
nothing
really
changes
in
life
if
we
don’t
take
responsibility
and
actually
do
the
work!
It’s
also
about
being
in
our
own
power,
inhabiting
our
bodies,
minds
and
souls
fully
and
truthfully.
It’s
about
living
consciously,
relating
to
others
and
the
world
from
our
core,
about
art-‐fully
creating
the
life
we
want,
each
moment.
All
this
is
what
I
need
and
what
I
cherish
the
most
–
it
is
what
I
ultimately
can
give
to
the
world.
Voice
–
this
is
the
second
pillar
of
power
for
me.
If
we
are
not
listening
to
or
expressing
our
own
voice,
whose
life
are
we
living?
This
is
not
a
rhetorical
question;
it
is
a
fundamental
one.
It
took
me
decades
to
learn
to
listen
to
myself,
clouded
as
my
mind-‐chatter
was
with
a
million
voices
that
were
not
mine.
If
you
hone
your
awareness
and
tune
into
the
background
noise
in
your
head
right
now,
whose
voice
is
it
that
is
the
loudest?
Shouldn’t
it
be
your
own?
What
are
the
implications
of
having
others’
voices,
opinions,
‘shoulds’
rule
over
your
life?
Feel
into
how
life
could
be,
if
the
voice
you
listened
to
and
expressed
were
your
own.
Think
about
how
much
more
peace
there
would
be
in
your
heart,
how
much
more
at
ease
you
could
walk
in
this
world.
How
much
more
on
purpose
you