Tune in Tuesday: Freedom
How is your heart? Let’s check in on what freedom means to you.
Because that’s what today is about right?
However, being free looks different to everyone, depending on various factors but not limited to your gender, race, financial stability, etc.
As a woman, I don’t feel totally free to dress how I want, walk down a street alone, or go to the car repair shop. These situations are more challenging as someone being born with a female body, and I won’t go down the rabbit hole of freedom to do what I want with my body with the latest laws that have been terribly implemented. I will say freedom isn’t totally subjective, as some would say. Sure I have the choice to react and my own free will how to think, but situations and circumstances( again one example of being a syst female) can hinder my total ability to act on some of my thoughts and or desires.
I just finished reading an amazing book, Cassandra Speaks When Women Are The Storytellers by Elizabeth Lesser, and I am reinspired to find a tribe of powerful women. I am reignited to talk to women and remind them of the importance of our voice and how we need to be loud in order for changes to happen. We need to voice our concerns with what’s happening around us daily and we need to retell the stories from the past.
Our childhood fables of princesses waiting to be saved by a prince and multiple religious text siding with men and painting the picture of women doing wrong( Adam and Eve, Pandora’s box ring a bell? )
Freedom is around us but can we actually feel it? Freedom might be available to some but as a whole, we are still caged by outdated beliefs and rules, and as a woman, I do not need to be silent, speak softly, or apologize I do not need to be scared to be assertive or aggressive.
I am inviting in freedom to be fierce, powerful, unapologetic, and emotional and to let go of imposter syndrome(we all have it, even Oprah!) because if we want to see the change, we need to be the change.
Care to join me?!
Tips, tools, and techniques to find your freedom:
-join a women’s group and find your tribe
-vote and sign petitions in your community for what you believe in
-when a man tries to dim your light remind him that you are free to speak up and your voice can be loud and powerful too
-say what you mean, mean what you say
-start telling stories of inspiring women
-stop judging other women and comparing yourself to them
