Feminine + feminist

I used to think it had to be one or the other.

Feminist. Or Feminine.

And for most of my life I chose feminist.

I chose to fight for women.

To prove that I, and women can do everything that men can do.

Everything would be a challenge. A competition.

And I was weak or a failure if I couldn’t do something.

Somewhere in this process I rejected everything that made me a woman.

My softness.

My cyclic nature.

My intuition.

My body.

I was living from a place of fear. Shame. Anger.

Life felt like it was a battle - all of the time.

But what if we can do things differently?

What if we can still want what’s best for women and embrace everything that makes us a woman?

What if we can still want what’s best for women and simultaneously what’s best for men?

What if we can still want what’s best for women and not make it mean that we have to be anti-men or anti-masculinity?

What if we can want what’s best for women and be feminine?

I’ve come to realise that I will always be a feminist. It’s carved into my very being to want and strive for what’s best for women. But I am now doing it from a place of love and truth (this is the feminine)- rather than from fear and hatred.

And I also want what’s best for men. Because the future is in men and women. The future is in our union.

It is together that we rise.

#feminineenergy