Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://drsherikeffer.com/">Dr. Sheri Keffer is a Marriage and Family Therapist and co-host of the nationally syndicated talk show, New Life Live. </a>Sheri expounds on her <a href="https://drsherikeffer.com/special-offer-for-btr-listeners/">Empowerment Wheel today.</a><br> <br> Anne: Welcome again, Sheri.<br> <br> Sheri: I have to tell you. You know how when you spend time with someone, how that time together, and conversations together prompts you to change, change your thinking, open yourself up to what’s right in front of you and has been staring at you. You are one of those change agents. I’m grateful for you as an advocate. I’m grateful for you in light of your passion and no tolerance for harm that’s caused. I love that about you.<br> <br> I appreciate that, always, you have that in the forefront. That’s what I really want to help to communicate to those that are listening, because there is so much harm and so much abuse in what is happening. It’s not okay. It’s not okay yesterday, it’s not okay today, and it’s not okay tomorrow.<br> <br> Stories of women that we’ve heard take our breath away, because we hear abuse that we’ve been tolerating. Some of us may even call that love. It’s not love. Love doesn’t let abuse happen. Trying to figure out what we need to do in order to confront abusive, harmful behavior is what we want to offer those that are listening. I’m just grateful that you’ve allowed me to be here with you today.<br> Why Self-Empowerment Is So Important<br> Anne: Thank you so much, Sheri. I’m so glad that you’re back. That’s interesting, because I feel like I’m just along for the ride. I feel like I’m learning and growing every week and every person that I interview. I really appreciate you and all of your work as well. I think we’re all progressing together.<br> <br> Sheri: You’re so funny. Because, you know, as you said that, you know what I saw? All of us on a crazy bus that went off a cliff. This ride that we’re on is not a ride that we chose. We didn’t consent to this. It’s such a feeling of helplessness when those things happen. We do learn from each other along the way. We become wiser when we listen and really define what it is we’re looking at. I think you’re one of those advocates that is helping people define what’s happening right in front of their face.<br> <br> Anne: For all of us, we go through this period where we don’t see what’s right in front of our face. We are trying to figure out what’s going on, and we can’t see it for what it really is until we have some type of epiphany, or we listen to a podcast like this, or we read Sheri’s book. Some external thing might happen to us when we start realizing, “Wait a minute, I don’t think my reality is what I thought it was.”<br> <br> Sheri came on today to talk about the <a href="https://drsherikeffer.com/special-offer-for-btr-listeners/">Empowerment Wheel</a> that she created, which is a tool to help women get out of that helpless mode. When we first talked, we talked a little bit about how lying can be abusive. Sheri, I want you, first of all, to talk about how lying causes harm and how the Empowerment Wheel can help victims of lies.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
