Often, the difference between feeling disempowered and empowered is just internal.

Externally, nothing may have changed but internally you would've made a long, painstaking journey to feel empowered enough to react differently to the same circumstances.

A story about climbing Mt. Everest may make for thrilling, tangible viewing but I'm more intrigued in the journey the mountaineer must have made internally to be able to climb Mt. Everest.