Power returns gradually through decisions nobody else can make for you.

Power that has been lost rarely returns in one dramatic recovery. It comes back through a sequence of small decisions that only you can make: what you say yes to, what you stop tolerating, what you learn, where you spend your hours. Each is minor and the accumulation is not.

Make one such decision this week and let it be genuinely yours rather than a response to someone else. Do it again next week. The rebuilding is unspectacular and it works.