The Myth of Power: Reclaiming Your Worth from the Inside Out
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Carmen Dominguez discusses the myth of power and how to reclaim one's worth through understanding and embracing personal gifts.
For over 30 years, Carmen Dominguez has been sitting in the space where psychotherapy meets ancient wisdom — first as a young therapist during the HIV/AIDS crisis, where she watched people stripped of every mask discover their essence underneath, and now as Chief Clinical Advisor at Integrative Life Network, weaving neuroscience together with Toltec traditions and somatic practice. In this conversation, Carmen and HeatherAsh dig into what Carmen calls the myth of power: the idea that we're wired from birth to chase safety, connection, and belonging, and that this wiring quietly hijacks our sense of worth. Carmen explains how our gifts — the things we're naturally good at — get recruited into that chase, until we mistake the gift itself for our value. She shares how she unlearned this in her own life, and how she now helps clients (from artists to Harvard students to people in addiction recovery) get into right relationship with their gifts instead of using them to prove they're enough. They also talk about the nervous system: why turning inward can feel like crossing a river with slippery rocks, why awareness itself is medicine, and why something as simple as noticing one second…
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