Feminism – Page 2 – Aligning Within

This Is Why My Female Friendships Will Always Mean The Most

I’d like to begin this by saying one thing: I do not hate romantic love, and I am not trying to diminish its value. In fact, I think romantic relationships are a wonderful thing. I have been with people who have made my heart feel full. They’ve given music a new meaning, made me breakfast before […]

I Soak

I soak my skin in the phases of the moon and the light of the stars Drink tea brewed with leaves I picked on the hillside What a wonder it is to hold and be held by constellations One hand on my heart The other on my core I breathe into my palms And rest […]

Women Torched for being Female

It was not witches who burned. It was women. Women who were seen as Too beautiful Too outspoken Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously) Who had a birthmark Women who were too skilled with herbal medicine Too loud Too quiet Too much red in her hair Women who had a strong nature […]

We are She

There are so many of them; they stand behind our backs, long trails of mothers stretching out over the frozen lakes, spilling beyond the skyline and eventually lost far inside dark shadows of time. There forms a river of women’s blood, a mesh of women’s bones, a web of women’s lives into which we are […]

You Have the Answer

At the center of your being You have the answer. You know who you are And what you want. There is no need To run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather, abide at the center of your being… Search your heart and see… The way ‘to do is to be. […]

You Never Know Until You TRY

It is often said that at the end of our lives, we are more likely to regret the things we did not do than the things we did. When contemplating whether to do something or not, a plucky voice in our heads may say, “You never know until you try.” This is time-honored wisdom […]

What Makes a Woman Confident is Her Ability to Call Upon Her Feminine Wisdom

So often in our world, we tend to think of strength as a quality that arises from a place of firm determination and a will to succeed no matter the cost. Even though we might want to think of a strong woman as being defined in this way, what really makes a woman confident is […]

Learning to Love my Culture

I’ll never forget the day I first said the phrase, “in my culture…” It was a casual conversation between friends and, in between pouring drinks and settling into comfy lounge chairs at a park, the words seamlessly slid out of my mouth. We were talking about family get-togethers, and in particular how we interact with […]

Being a Strong Women

This is what an anonymous man wrote to me just the other day: “Being strong is not rewarded. Women are expected to be vulnerable. Being strong means that you’re inevitably bitter or jaded about something, and that’s just not attractive.” Here is what being a strong woman means to me: It means standing up for myself. […]

The Things We Don’t Talk About

I am ecstatic to announce I am publishing my first book, The Things We Don’t Talk About, this October 2019. This book is over 42 years in the making: Most of that time was spent living the stories; two of those years were spent writing (and editing and rewriting) them. I feel like I am preparing […]