Feeling guilty about your privilege?
Your suffering does NOT mitigate the suffering of others
to liberate others, you must liberate yourself
What we'll be covering
What privilege is and what it means
What being a responsible steward of privilege looks like
Self-reflection on the privileges you have that you probably don't even realize that go beyond financial and racial privilege
How to deal with privilege guilt
Partnering with yourself
Mindset tools to check your thinking and change your mindset around privilege (especially if you're a coach, healer, or other service based entrepreneur!)
Saviorship vs. Allyship in creating impact using your resources
44 new thoughts to think on purpose to keep you aligned in your new awareness
What's selfish, is thinking that you can't make a difference
Your liberation is tied to the liberation of the collective meaning
Investing in yourself is an investment in others
Speaking your truth and healing your trauma frees others from feeling the pressure to suppress theirs
Receive financial support as you build your dreams allows you to create the best art, service, or business for others
Your privilege is a resource to help you fulfill your purpose- not something to feel ashamed about (for it, or for the lack of it)
In a culture that is quick to demonize privilege, discredit your achievements based on your parent's successes, and seemingly blame kids born into wealthy families, it can feel disorienting when the same culture celebrates the pursuit to achieve freedom, encourages chasing your dreams, and fetishizes financial abundance.
Here's how you can make sense of your own experiences without the noise of what other people may think and shut the inner critic up so you can steward your privilege in a direction that is aligned with your values, nourishes your soul, and creates positive impact in your community.
- $22
Partner With Your Privilege
- Course
- 2 Lessons
Ever wonder...
Why do privileged people avoid talking about their own privilege?
Why are privileged people so hated and easy to shit on?
Why aren’t privileged people making more of a difference with their resources and access to opportunities?
Because we created a society that makes people with privilege one-dimensional.
And humans are afraid of not being SEEN.
Here’s some of the beliefs we’ve built as a society around privilege (particularly financial and racial privilege):
Privilege discounts your achievements.
Privilege negates your trauma.
Privilege makes you “out of touch” with reality and actual problems.
Privilege makes you ignorant.
Privilege means you don’t know the value of a dollar or how to work hard.
Privilege means you take everything for granted.
Privilege means you don’t know what REAL struggle is.
Privilege means you don’t feel pain.
But here's the thing- privilege is just the circumstance.
You get to choose how you think, feel, and behave because of, or regardless of, it.
I understand the anxiety that comes with it-
Sometimes felt like I have to defend myself if I’m around people with “less” or overcompensate to prove that I’m an equal if I’m around people with “more”
And that if I don’t then people will misunderstand and negatively judge me
You can probably relate.
We assume shame for those with less financial resources, less whiteness, less able-bodiness, less education, more weight, etc.
And we assume pride for the opposite.
Which poses the danger for our brains to see and treat people one-dimensionally.
And when people don’t feel seen, they’re less likely to:
Want to empathize or be compassionate
Want to listen to or socialize with those who they don’t think will understand them
Want to build a bridge
Want to receive from the other side
Want to give to the other side
Want to share opportunities
If we learn to partner with our privileges, then we can accept all parts of ourselves, see our own pain and our power, take responsibility over how we show up, and trust our intentions.Together, individually, we can all play our part in helping society move in a more collaborate direction no matter what your privileges are.