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Written by: Lorien A. Masters
To be a woman is to navigate a world that often feels unmade for us, yet demands that we mold ourselves to fit within its rigid structures. It is to move through countless seasons of change—each cycle, each decade, each milestone shifting us in ways that are as unseen as they are undeniable. It is to hold multitudes: the fierce and the tender, the warrior and the nurturer, the resilient and the soft.
From the first flush of adolescence, we are initiated into a life of ebb and flow, dictated by rhythms that feel beyond our control. The dance of hormones, the shifting tides of our emotions, the constant recalibration—none of it is easy. We learn to exist in a world built for linear paths, while our very nature is cyclical, spiraling through growth, rest, and renewal. We are expected to prove ourselves, to be twice as competent, to shrink in spaces where our voices are deemed too loud, and to expand in ways that serve others before ourselves. We operate in the masculine, pushing forward, striving, achieving, fitting into structures never designed with us in mind.
But oh, to be a woman is also to be a force of nature. A portal between worlds, a carrier of intuition, a wellspring of creativity and life—whether that life is born from our bodies or from our dreams, our art, our words, our love. We do not just exist; we feel, we know, we sense in ways that cannot be explained but are undeniably real. Our empathy, our connection, our ability to hold and to heal—these are not weaknesses; they are our birthright.
To live in our feminine is to reclaim what has always been ours: the ability to move with grace, to listen to the quiet whispers of our own wisdom, to soften without breaking, to embrace the depths of our emotions without apology. It is the magic of knowing when to push and when to rest, when to lead and when to surrender, when to demand more and when to simply be. Our strength is not in how much we can carry, but in how deeply we feel, in our ability to turn pain into purpose, to create beauty out of nothing, to turn wounds into wisdom.
For centuries, we have been told that to be strong we must harden, that to succeed we must forsake our softness. But what if our greatest power lies in the very things we have been taught to suppress? Our intuition, our sensitivity, our ability to nurture, to hold space, to love unconditionally? What if our ability to flow rather than force, to feel rather than ignore, to surrender rather than resist is the very thing that makes us unstoppable?
Womanhood is not a burden; it is a gift. It is in the way we cycle through rebirths, in the way we rise even when we have been told to stay small. It is in the way we hold each other, in the way we weave community, in the way we lift and heal and love. It is in our ability to be both the storm and the calm, the fire and the ocean, the wild and the grounded.
So here’s to us—women in all our seasons, in all our power, in all our softness and strength. Here’s to embracing the fullness of who we are, not as something to be tamed or contained, but as something to be celebrated. We are not here to fit into a world that was not made for us; we are here to create a new one. One where our voices, our wisdom, our presence, and our power are honored—not in spite of our femininity, but because of it.
And to make our strength unparalleled, it is when women stand in union together that we become truly unstoppable. Not tearing each other down but rising together, supporting and holding space for our fellow women. Lifting one another, empowering each other to take up the space we deserve, and reminding one another that we are already enough. That we hold the world within us.
Here’s to you and every woman.
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