9.21.24 🌕 Chats with ChatGPT: Hierarchy & Power Dynamics When working through deconstruction I often find myself cycling back around to the resistance I feel towards authority, my own need for autonomy, and how does one navigate a system of hierarchy when they have never really felt aligned with the systems of power that control the hierarchy. Inevitably I find myself asking: In what ways do I feel powerless? When I feel powerless where does it show up somatically in my body? What feelings and sensations are happening when I feel powerless? If that powerlessness could express some emotions what would it say? How far back does this powerlessness go? Was there anyone you could tell about feeling powerless? If you told someone, who did you tell? Did they have the power to support you then? If not, how did that powerless make you feel? In what ways do you give away your power now? In what ways do you take back your power now? What compassion can you offer to that younger version of ...