Relational Rights

Honored Relational Rights protect and promote safety: emotional, physical, cognitive, and spiritual. When you honor and protect your own rights and the rights of others, it creates both internal and external safety. When you feel safe, you feel calm and experience human dignity. 

Honoring your Relational Rights and their supportive boundaries ensures a healthy supply of your core emotional needs for EMPATHY, ESTEEM, and EMPOWERMENT. When these primary emotional needs are met, you become aware, good, and strong. You experience calm comfort and emotional balance.

Empathy connects you to feelings, your own and the feelings of others. Empathy creates safety, trust, and understanding in your Self-relationship and your relationships with others. Empathy is the universal language of humanity. When we lack empathy, we become disconnected from our true feelings and the feelings of others, which can result in dehumanizing behaviors.

Esteem means valuing and respecting your Self. Self-esteem comes from acting in respectworthy ways in your Self-relationship and your relationships with others. Esteem stems from good character and honorable choices. Knowing you strive to do the right thing creates internalized esteem, strength, and Self-respect. 

Empowerment is the ability to Self-protect and Self-direct in ways that promote your emotional balance and well-being. Self-protection is setting and enforcing boundaries that protect your rights.  Empowerment is choosing courage when you are fearful but need to act on your behalf. Empowerment is having enough Self-discipline to follow through with a plan that will result in meeting your emotional needs for safety and choice.