What about something like the verb meaning to "be pacified", sefask... or "persistence", þrá...
not sure how vague... there's also the verb, "to put forth great effort", kosta. My Norse is
pathetic... these are reflective 'make oneself ready', búask and 'become, make oneself into',
gerask.

If you take the meaning of overcome... its roots are still somewhat violent...

o·ver·come (vr-km)
v. o·ver·came (-km), o·ver·come, o·ver·com·ing, o·ver·comes
v.tr.
1. To defeat (another) in competition or conflict; conquer.
2. To prevail over; surmount: tried to overcome the obstacles of poverty.
3. To overpower, as with emotion; affect deeply.
v.intr.
To surmount opposition; be victorious.

you look at more synonyms of overcome, you find defeat, conquer, triumph, pacify, etc...

Even something like conciliate which implies winning over, often by reasoning and with mutual
concessions. It's tied to pacify, which is inherently passive in it's roots, as to use good will
to overcome adversity, and to restore peace to a violent or ill-dignified state of being.
However, conciliation in the time of Old Norse, was also tied to a violent nature, and often used
as a process to overcome heathen at the time of adoption to Christianity. Which in itself has
extremely violent roots. Violence unfortunately is everywhere.

If I look at what you wrote it would seem to be more a spiritual process than a physical one. As
you used the chunk 'struggle within yourself'. Any of those words can be taken to mean the defeat
of inner demons. The strength of the word in context would merely make clear how you went about
it.

I overcame my inner demons, sounds trivial compared to, I pacified my inner demons. Are you
trying relate the act of physically vanquishing a part of yourself, or make peace with all facets
of your being? Words are such a pain in the butt. Sorry to complicate matters.

Peace...

--- Daos_1 <ninpuucho@...> wrote:

> Sooo, from everyone else's as well as yours, Sigra is basically a
> physical conquering of other people, which i can't really use. I need
> a word for Overcome as meaning to go through a tough trial or
> experience and overcome it. You know, a struggle within yourself. You
> wanna quit, but you keep pushing, and overcome.
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> sorry for being such a bother...but this is kinda critical for me to
> get that exact word...thanks so much to you all. *thumbs up*
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> > The examples I've found searching for 'sigra' just now [
> > http://www.lexis.hi.is/corpus/leit.pl ] seem to mostly involve the
> > defeat of an enemy. Figuratively though: to "defeat rage with
> > patience" (reiðini með þolinmæði) and to overcome "their
> > stubbornness/agression" (þrálæti þeirra). I'm not qualified to say
> > that it couldn't be used for hardships too though. Not sure.
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