Are you just beginning think how your life experiences may have impacted your sense of worth, identity and efficacy?
Are you ready to claim your worthiness in a way you that feels wild different and self- possessed?
For years I have witnessed women in the middle of their life who are waking up and discovering that they have been living throughout their life with the insidious pain and oppression of being marginalized, discounted or just downright “too good” for their own good! Many seek therapy to change this dynamic and reconnect with their authentic voice and creative power. Midlife can bring many dynamic shift for a woman, especially as she begins to understand how that she was taught to quell her authentic self to be a “good” daughter, wife, mother, employee (you fill in the blank) to ensure security in the system she was serving (and/or surviving) and that this approach to being has not helped their own internal alignment, creativity or self-aliveness.
For too long, she has ‘put up’ with the imposed rules of family, work, or society and has gotten to a point where she feels downtrodden, depressed, fed up or down right done with feeling devalued or treated with disregard or disrespect. The pain that comes from denying and repressing the self this way can show up in many forms, for examples depression, anxiety, weight challenges, ennui. Now more than ever, the midlife women have more ability to claim their worth, power and independence.
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
— Toni Morrison