Self Ability

Self-Ability

"Self-ability" is one's perception of what one is "able" to do.

Domestic violence includes physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse.

Abusive partners use emotional domination as a control mechanism that includes imposing feelings of worthlessness on their partner.

Often abusive partners use financial abuse as a control mechanism - one of many ways the abuser keeps the victim dependent.

The Business of Me teaches self-ability. It replaces feelings of inability with a "can do" and "I want to" way of thinking.

Our participants are so often mired in what they perceive as being "wrong" with them that they stay instead of creating the independent life that they choose.

This is usually reinforced with negative self-talk and the belief that postponing dealing with life issues, including money management and paths to financial independence brings ease and buys time. Participants are taught specific techniques for envisioning and managing a change process that leads them to life-independence.

The Business Of Me directly addresses feelings of negative self-worth and the negative self-talk that accompanies it by helping participants identify their fears and providing them specific tools to combat it.

Instead of constantly telling themselves “I can’t”, our participants are taught that they can and then are given the tools to prove to themselves that they in fact do have "Self-Ability".

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