Do you have "M" in you?

During my counselling session today - the focus was our inner strength and with that you can find your voice to say "Here I am!!". One of the learning curves I am processing is "how I interpret critisim?". Since the beginning of April, I have absorbed the "whole critism" as a reflect of me personally, therefore an attack. It has caused great stress for me these past couple of months. My counsellor shared that when someone is giving you a critism of your performance (even if it is constructive critism) - hold it out front don't absorb it all - take like 5% ownership and work with that to improve your skill set, which could be taking a course to hone that particular skill. The rest - basically give it over to God and let him take care of it. Its that 5% where you can see growth through the learning process and through that comes ones strength.

So wondering where "M" figures into all of this? As I am a visual learner - We were looking for an example of a strong woman who demonstrates she has compassion (soft side) but to succeed in that business that is male-dominant she illustrates she can be tough as nails and take no guff from anyone (including 007). We both agreed, it is not only the character but when you watch on TV interviews Judi Dench shows that same strength. When observing Judi Dench on TV, you can see her self-confidence but at the same time see her elegance and feminism. It is interesting how we agreed that another British actress that shared similar characteristics to Judi Dench is Helen Mirren.

As my counsellor and I were wrapping our session, she wanted to share that the healing within is occurring, baby steps right? Putting in safeguards or tools to handle better critism or "perspection of your picking on me" feeling - that backbone or broad shoulders I have mentioned in past entries develop - the inner strength we all have, comes to the surface for others to see. She shared - she see my "M" beginning to show - comes with my inner growth beginning and in knowing my confidence in my work, knowing my passion and pride for my work and to know I am going to be on a lifelong journey of learning my own strengths and limitations.

So my question for you - Have you found your "M"?