Liberation - Why I March
My mom and I were together the other day when she looked at me and said, "I'm glad I'm not a mother in this day and age." I got exactly what she was saying. Women today are supposed to be everything - mother, wife, and CEO. It's an impossible task, leaving many women conflicted and torn between roles, demands, and personal fulfillment.
As women's rights evolved and opportunities increased over the years, the dominant trend was to assume a masculine-like role in society. But, trying to be like someone else is never the answer. Which brings us to where we are today - at a revelatory time for women in history. Women are being called to reconnect with their raw, wild, feminine power and to step forward into authentic expression and liberation.
When I told my son that there has never been a woman President, he was shocked. I, simultaneously felt the pain of servitude and the realization of liberation.
During the most recent module of a Master Healer Program I am participating in, I had some past sexual trauma surface during our shamanic and breath journeys. I was molested around the age of 8 by a friend's brother and his friend at a group sleepover. I had never told anyone and considered it a minor trauma as it wasn't violent or aggressive. When I said no, they stopped. But, the trauma surfacing as it did told me that it was time for this experience to be acknowledged out loud and shared.
Whenever I previously felt drawn to share my experience, a voice always quieted me down - I would tell myself it wasn't a big deal or I tried acknowledging it to myself thinking that was enough. This is the tragedy of losing your voice. So many women suffer from it. But, every trauma deserves acknowledgement. Micro traumas are a big deal. They lie seemingly dormant in your subconscious, but are effecting you every day. As I healed the trauma, I saw the impact the trauma had on all of my male relationships. I made a point to voice my story as I healed - with my girlfriends and my patients. And when I did, every single woman I talked to had a similar story of sexual violation at a young age. Many of them had never told anyone either.
When I said out loud to my son that there has never been a female president, for me, it triggered the collective pain of women and of being a woman - suppression, violation, objectification, and enslavement. I realized for the first time what it truly meant for me to be a woman in this lifetime - how fresh women's rights are and how we continue to live in an enslaved culture. And it amplified my life purpose to empower and assist women in the enlightenment of the soul.
A lot of women are feeling this collective pain right now. And I want them to know that for us to liberate ourselves and to become whole again, it's important to acknowledge and feel this pain. It must be accepted as part of our history and who we are. From there, we can liberate. We can disengage. We can stop draining our own life force by giving it to another - through fighting, through arguing, through justifying, through sacrificing, through keeping silent, and through participating in what we don't believe in.
Instead, I invite you to tap into your divine feminine. To reconnect with the truth of who you are. To trust the divine authority that is expressed through you. To honor yourself by following your heart's calling. And to know that you are deserving of love. This re-balancing will come in many forms - through healing, art, activism, teaching, parenting, becoming responsible, being courageous, speaking from your heart, sharing the truth, knowing you are safe, and living as an example of the divine feminine each and every day. Always choose light.
One day in the future, it will be a shocking thought that people of different genders, races, and cultures were ever treated without equality and without protection of human rights.