For our 27th podcast, listen to 12-year-old Lina Norris-Raman read and discuss her brilliant piece, "To Be A Girl," in conversation with Intuitive Writing Project founder, Elizabeth Perlman.

In this piece, Lina writes eloquently of the overwhelming pressure to look a certain way—along with the pain of knowing we can ever be "perfect enough," a pain, Elizabeth notes, that women of every age can relate to, as well. After calling out the impossible standards of The Beauty Myth, Lina and Elizabeth discuss the transformative power of writing to cultivate self-acceptance and self-compassion.

You can read Lina's beautiful writing on our blog, The Intuitive Voice, here:

https://intuitivevoice.org/2025/03/21/to-be-a-girl/

To learn more about The Intuitive Writing Project, visit us at: https://www.intuitivewritingproject.org/

Thank you for your time and presence, supporting the voices of girls and gender-expansive youth!

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Music:  Forest Lullaby was composed by “Lesfm” (the artist Oleksii Kaplunskyi) for Pixabay.com.