I’m always in favour of honoring and acknowledging women on Women’s Day and this piece speaks powerfully to this season I’m in.
Wrapping my virtual arms around every woman who gets this. Love you girl ❤❤
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When she discards her old ways
Like tossed shoes in the garbage
When she shreds her list of “shoulds” and obligations
And when impossible expectations are burned in an incinerator
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When the approval of others once jewels
Now turn to pennies in her sock
When the hunt for another is now replaced
By a hunt for herself
And when parental tentacles of tradition
No longer define her truth
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When her desire to fit in with the crowd dissolves
When her manic compulsion to be perfect vaporizes
And when her obsession to be voted popular eviscerates
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When she simply says “no more”
When facade, artifice, and guile leave her nauseated
And when righteousness, dogma, and superiority repulse her
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When she no longer fears conflict but faces it boldly like a lioness
When she guards her authenticity
As fearlessly as she guards her babies
And when she drops the role of savior
Knowing she can only save herself
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When she no longer cowers in the shadows of her unworthiness
When she no longer plays small so others can feel big
And when she swaps the role of victim
For the role of cocreator
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When she unabashedly and boldly
Occupies her ultimate sovereignty
When she finally feels ready to claim her space in the world
And when she redefines compassion as unequivocal self-love
There comes a time in the life of a woman
When she finally releases her childlike dependencies on others
When she dares to rewrite a new mandate of living for herself
One that says:
I release unworthiness and fear
I divorce servility and passivity
I divest inauthenticity and enmeshment
I end the pretense of being someone I am not
And from now on I declare
I will ascend into my highest power
I will embrace my greatest autonomy
I will celebrate my deepest worth
I will embody my fiercest courage
And manifest the most authentic me
The time is now
I am ready
To awaken into my renaissance
~ Dr. Shefali
Wishing you a wonderful long weekend! Happy Women’s Day to all the amazing ladies out there! 💖
With love,
Sharon
