Permission to be Powerful

Permission to be Powerful

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A Lesson on Validation, Trust, and Inner Knowing

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Zalman Nelson
May 25, 2025
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Dear Permission to be Powerful Reader,

A client of mine — someone I’ve been working with for a while now — asked to share something with me at the very end of our session.

She wanted to tell me about something she had said to her son.

Something she was proud of.

Something she wanted me to validate.

And I… refused. 😱

But not from a place of coldness or dism…

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