Power Trip

How to Take Control of Your Own Life

Personal power is all in your head

Melody Wilding, LMSW
GEN
Published in
5 min readOct 17, 2018

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Photo by Tiago Felipe Ferreira on Unsplash

WWhen we think about power, we typically think about it as the ability to influence others: through coercion, through manipulation, through punishment.

But power can also be more inward-facing. Your sense of personal power is a mental state, encompassing your attitudes and…

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Melody Wilding, LMSW
GEN
Writer for

Author of TRUST YOURSELF. Executive coach to Sensitive Strivers. Human behavior professor. Featured in NYT, NBC, CNN. https://melodywilding.com/book