Women's Grit & Grace ~Embrace Your Power as a Woman in Life & Love

Your presence as a woman is a power which you can choose to engage in your life for changing the outcomes of challenges and for realizing your dreams. This is not a power women are taught about as we live in a time when men's ways have had the stage of what we pay attention to and engage. And, the lack of women's ways of power being embraced by the world has impacted both men's and women's lives in ways not for the better.

Join me as I share how you can do so as the power of your presence as a women is a power women are often unaware of and not taught how to engage. It is a power which needs asks of you a willingness to engage your heart in service of your deepest values and to honor your power as a woman. No collateral damages, only a willingness to call upon your grace for meeting the grit of life.

Power is a subject up and front as women give voice to men abusing their power. Make no mistake, while the means may be sexual, the heart of the matter is power. We live in a male-centric world, meaning, a world created for and by men and their expereinces. And so by default, women's expereince of the world is not unlike being a round peg trying to fit into a square hole-not. And historically women as a result have had to be accomodating to being different than men, although the price of that is no longer what women want to pay.

Join me as I talk about women's power and how it is often different from (men's) power as what we've been taught is power. Knowing what is powerful for you is a beginning step to claiming what has power for you and what you in turn can exercise as power. It is different, and, that is true of much of you as a woman in contrast to men and their experiences. Women embracing their power is one of the responses to a world crying out for more heart and soul in the world.

It's a brand new year, inviting renewal in our faith and belief in our ability to create a life we adore. Within you lies a source of unlimited creativity, wisdom, strength which can become buried beneath the bills, the to-do list, the distraction of political dramas. And so we become confused, believing the circumstances outside ourself are what make us happier -or not. This is why new year resolutions so quickly fold, for without tapping into what is infinite and eternal within yourself, your life will be constructed of your reactions of the actions of others.

Join me as I talk about how within each and every woman is the GPS of her soul for realizing happiness and success in her life's dreams. Your soul needs to you to call on it and to take action on your own behalf. This is not woo-woo, but the reason the absence of women's power has created a world lacking in soul and heart. If you want the advantage of the power, wisdom, and courage which lies awaiting you to call upon it, learn how to flex the muscles of your soul and watch your life change!

To be a woman is a gift, a privilege, a blessing....but has not been so much in the times and culture we live in. There is a reckoning a-foot as to the price of women's silence and the collusion which kept women silent and a distortion of men's power in play. Women's wings have been bent by the silencing of her outrage and wisdom, the relegating to the sidelines her values and compassion. This is no longer sustainable as the world created without women's presence and purpose is a world on the brink of self-destruction.

Join me as I talk about how becoimng aware of where your wings have been bent and how mending them is the sacred calling to every woman. Your wings do not need to become perfect before you again allow your passions to soar and your purpose to be shared for the benefit of all. Simply be willing to realize and tend to where you have been silenced as a woman, where you have bought into your imperfection as a woman, and choose to mend and soar again.The world needs the fierce compassion of women more than ever, imperfect and in the process of mending the wings of the better nature of ourself as women.

#metoo continues to reveal the misuse and abuse of power by men with women (and visa versa altho' less so). It would seem to be a moment in time for a reckoning, a rebalancing of the norms between women and men and the misuse of power by those dominant (men) upon those not (women). And, history shows us that getting to #nomore will not come about without conscious, on-going efforts on the part of women and men. 

Today I want to share how taking stock in your own life of where you stay silent, where you have been on the hurting end of the misuse of power, where you care enough to risk making a different choice. There is not a woman-or man-who is not in some way affected by the imbalance of power between women and men. The opportunity is now to take your personal experience and history as motivation, as inspiration to step into being "the better angel" of yourself and for others.

In some spiritual traditions in the East, women are considered 10x more powerful than men and yet women often shy away from their power in some apsect of their life. They may be powerful in their professional roles, but feel unhappy in their intimate relationship. Or feel confident and effective as a parent and yet feel they have nothing to say in a school forum. Even the word "power" makes most women uncomfortable, perhaps through believing that men's manner of wielding power must be their way. Not.

Join me as I talk about how women's forms and manner of power may have overlap with men's but also important distinctions. And how power in one aspect of your life does not always transfer over to other aspects of your life. And how you can remedy this by embracing more of your power-as a woman-and transform beliefs that as a woman you need to model men to have power in your life and in your relationships.

In the first part of "What the Bible Left Out About Women and Men" I spoke about some of the historical roots of violence against women and the subsequent silencing of women's voices. And how when you grow up as a woman in a culture where the "silence of the mother" is prevelant, it can be difficult to speak up and out for yourself and others. Yet, the world we've created through not challenging "the sins of the father and the silences of the mother" is a world which struggles with rampant violence against women and it's humanity as a world.

Join me for Part Two of "What the Bible Left Out About Women and Men" as I share ideas and exercises for discovering where "the silence of the mother" has affected your life as a woman and your relationships with men. And how you can begin to change how your mother's silence impacted you and your own voice as a woman. For what you will see, you can heal. And what you choose to give voice to has the power to change your life and the world.

While men's patterns destructive to women and relationships are often passed on -what the Bible refers to as "the sins of the fathers"- missing is reference to how "the silences of the mothers" contribute as well. No surprise as the Bible-as are most spiritual books and writings of our time-written by men about men's experiences of the spiritual. 

In this episode of "Women's Grit & Grace", I will speak about how the silencing of women's voices has led in great part to our imbalanced world and challenged relationships. Both men and women bear responsibility for creating our current conditions of world and relationship. Understanding the history between women and men is an important first step. And while history may be written by the victors, time brings home the true price of any claimed victory over another.

Join me for an introduction to how the "silences of her mother" is what every woman must face and make her choice to change. It is time for women to lead in making the changes so necessary to a healthier world and relationships. Beginning with reclaiming the power of her voice, the first step to reclaiming her power and the so-needed leadership of women.

We live in a time of transition and whether you like it or not, change will make it's way to your life. Learn how being pro-active with change will ease the process and invite you to bring your dreams to how change shows up in your life. For choosing to be an author with change is the blessing of change.

Whether you are in a transition of your roles, your biology, or your relationships, change invites you to be pro-active with it's process of evolving your life and the world. Women are familiar with the power and creativity of change, for our body goes through phases and stages we can learn to engage and then allow to change. 

Join me as I talk about how to engage whatever transition has made it's way to you and engage it's invitation to enjoin with it for creating more of what you want and letting go of what no longer serves you or your life.

Women today have more choices than ever before and yet women today struggle to realize happiness in their lives and their relationships. What's up? In short, women have forgotten to be a woman first and a woman last, confusing roles and responsibilites for her worth and purpose. Add the cultural messages of how women ought to be-have and you have a recipe for women's feelings of helplessness and hopelessness to make things better in their life or the world. 

Join me as I talk about how women's worth is not her roles or responsibilities, although her roles will help her learn as well as live her values and her capacities as a woman. When a woman lives as a woman first and last, she brings her inner wisdom, strength, and firece compassion to all she attends. Be it with her family, in a relationship, doing her work, being a woman first and last means she will not compromise nor silence her voice when attending to her deepest values and commitments. Tune it and learn more about this topic so essential for women and their happiness in life and their relationships.