5 Self-Empowerment Techniques for Women to Build Confidence
Often when I am approached by women for coaching and counselling, they are seeking out self-empowerment techniques to help them to build confidence in both their professional and personal lives.
Self-empowerment and confidence are two of the biggest issues most women struggle with. Many women at any stage of life can feel disempowered, lacking in confidence, demotivated or simply struggling with life in general. This can be due to a wide variety of reasons. A build-up of stress and anxiety, A single life-changing event or a series of events.
As a coach and counsellor, I see women in this position on a regular basis. Women who are struggling to grow their confidence or feel disempowered. It’s not an uncommon issue and fortunately, there are some great strategies that can help.
Below are the 5 top self-empowerment techniques I recommend all women practice on a daily basis to become self-empowered and build confidence:
Self-Empowerment Technique #1: Take Responsibility
Taking responsibility is one of the most powerful self-empowering techniques anyone can do. Learning to identify and accept that your situation… Where you are in life, is ultimately your responsibility can help become more self-empowered.
We are all responsible for the actions and choices that we make on a weekly, daily, hourly basis that has lead us to where we are right now.
This is often a confronting statement for many people. But in order to be empowered, you need to take responsibility. No one said it more clearly than Oprah Winfrey in her video below:
As Oprah says in this video “Only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward”. If you do not take control of that power and control of your life, someone else will take the power from you. You are responsible for your life… Past, present and most importantly of all, future.
Once you have sat with this notion for a while and evaluated the past decisions and choices that have lead you to become disempowered, then you can start to take responsibility for making alternative choices going forward in order to become more self-empowered, more confident and more in control of your own life.
Self-Empowerment Technique #2: Work through limiting beliefs
I spoke about limiting beliefs in a past article and how limiting beliefs and negative emotions can result in women being stuck or stagnating and unable to move forward towards their ideal life.
Limiting beliefs can have an enormous hold over us and can often be why women live in a disempowered state and struggle with confidence issues. Thinking that you are not good enough, are not worthy, are not deserving or have not paid your dues means you are not allowing yourself to live up to your full potential. You are allowing your brain to deceive you into thinking you are not strong enough to live the life you truly want to live.
It is almost impossible to think limiting beliefs and be self-empowered and confident at the same time. They cannot co-exist. So, in order to become self-empowered and build confidence, you must release all limiting beliefs.
Self-Empowerment Technique #3: Forgive and Let go
In the natural course of working through our issues to increase our self-empowerment and confidence, we often find ourselves, reflecting on our past and the choices we have made or the negative thoughts that have been holding us back. Many women kick themselves for allowing these issues hold them back for so long.
It’s perfectly okay to reflect on past decisions and events, but it does become a problem if you dwell there.
While it’s important at this stage to acknowledge past events and behaviours, it’s also important to resolve your feelings with the past, forgive yourself and others for past actions and behaviours and then let it all go. It does you no good to hold on to the past.
The only thing you can draw from the past is lessons. Anything else that you are holding on to… Particularly emotions is simply a waste of time and will not serve you going forward.
Self-Empowerment Technique #4: Set boundaries
Setting boundaries is a key strategy that you must put in place to become more self-empowered and confident.
Boundaries are setting the standard for your life and conveying those standards to those around you. Boundaries show what is acceptable and not acceptable to you. When those boundaries are not respected by others and/or not maintained by you, then you risk becoming disempowered and losing self-confidence and self-respect.
Setting boundaries can be hard to do, especially for those who have not been good at setting them in the past, but the more you do it the easier it becomes. Self-confidence and self-respect are always boosted when clear boundaries are put in place.
While it may not have been obvious, we’ve touched on self-love throughout this article as we talk through each self-empowerment techniques. Practicing self-love is a strategy that is extremely important and must not be overlooked.
Self-love consists of putting yourself first. To be self-empowered and confident, you must love yourself, respect yourself and trust yourself.
Many women look back through events in their lives and wish they had trusted their gut feelings or intuition more about certain situations or events. Have you been there? So often our intuition is ignored or overlooked. Instead, we put our desire to be polite or to please other people first. When we do this, we become disempowered and lose our self-respect.
To overcome this, I recommend you practice self-love on a daily basis. Spend time with yourself, get to know yourself inside and out and hold yourself in high regard. The more self-love you show yourself the easier it is to tap into your intuition and self-empower yourself.
Building confidence and becoming self-empowered is not always easy to do. Even with these strategies outlined above, it can be hard to break old habits. Many women find they are getting in the way of their own self-empowerment and struggle to find a way to overcome this.
This is where the benefits of having a coach/counsellor in your corner can really help you. A coach/counsellor can show you how to overcome your obstacles as well as guide you along the way to ensure you stay on the right track.
Working with a coach/counsellor such as myself can see you make amazing progress in your quest for self-empowerment. Progress far quicker than if you were to embark on the process yourself.
If you are struggling with confidence and are looking to build strong strategies to become more self-empowered, then I would love to make a time to talk with you and formulate a personalised plan to get you moving in the right direction. Contact me today and let’s get the ball rolling.
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