Safety Tips for Women (Resharing)

Not mine. This was forwarded to me, but I felt it could be life-saving. I also haven't verified any of this, so feel free to do so yourself. (Disclaimer: ** non-high-vibe** blog post.)

Note, two points remind us as women to STOP being so polite (here, they say sympathetic). Self-care overflows as care for others, with our own healthy boundaries in place. Feel free to share.

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Beauty. Holding A Torch (Protect Your Dreams)

Leonard Shlain (RIP), in his book The Alphabet versus the Goddess, highlights how visual beauty is always the first aspect of the feminine (right-brain) to be stripped by the masculine -- not the healthy masculine -- when a society becomes obsessed with its left-brain talents. Women are covered or shamed for their very sensuality. Art is destroyed. Music is banned. The list goes on. He points to the Spanish Inquisition, Witch hunts, the Greco-Roman reform of their religion to brutally remove the female as the bearers of life and today's main patriarchal religions that have also removed women as bearers of life.

If you're paying attention, today the term "motherhood" offends. Any enjoyment of physical beauty offends -- disguised as offence taken by society's narrow definition of beauty. To attribute femininity largely to women also offends. And yet, we see that the feminine is rising again, regardless…

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Happy Birthday to Me

Happy new year, new day, new moment, to you and yours, and to me and mine. Born in January, it's easy for me to say my new year begins on my birthday. Still, I have new beginnings in November and September, just innately, intuitively, so I think you really choose the start to your personal new year.

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Raising Kids on Self Care

I'm searching for like-minded community on this one. If what we focus on expands, and we get more of what we focus on, then I'm focused solely on parents who not only talk about self care, but whom (when they get past the tired fog of sleeplessness) actually live self care and instill it via example and action, in their children.

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