your daily rock : be fierce!

February 23, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

“I want you to use your voice…I want you to be loud and fierce and wild, unable to be tamed…I want to know that every bit of power you were born with has been harnessed and is in full use so that when you need strength, you won’t have to rely on your reserves…You will meet people who will want you to shrink back so that they can step into the spotlight and claim all the warmth. Don’t let them. Move forward, take the light, accept the applause, understand how brilliant you are. People will inevitably say mean things to you or about you; don’t suck those things under your skin and try to make sense of them. Bust forth, make demands, speak up, don’t shy down.” –Chi Sherman, in What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom for a Happy Life

Roar, baby. Roar.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.)

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.