The Feminine Wound - podcast 7 in The Divine Feminine series
"We can talk about The Feminine Wound on multifarious levels; from the physical and psychological, the emotional and the economic, the political and the spiritual and the sexual…. As womben, our body-mind-spirit has been – and continues to be – systematically abused and oppressed literally from conception to grave.
I am talking in today’s podcast to our wholistic experience as female human beings in the contemporary ‘developed’ world: as individual keepers of womb, and as a collective momentum and potential in human evolution.
Our individual and collective potentiality – our vitality, our sense of self and of purpose, our feeling secure and stable in the world: these are areas that have been neglected and diminished by ourselves and those around us. We’ve been discouraged from… okay, no – we’ve been violently brainwashed away from… trusting our own body wisdom, knowing our inherent ability to heal, and experiencing our intimate synchrony with both nature and the human-created world around us.
Is this why we live in such dystopian times? I believe so… I know so, from my deepening connection with my own feminine intuition – which speaks in a kind of flowing-thought-image-form, about the path that we are walking on together – the choices we are accumulating into realities in front of us.
What would our world look like if womben knew our capacity for connection, healing, deep synchronising wisdom, wholeness: if we were all inspired-taught-trained from the earliest of ages to embrace our sentience and to use our power most advantageously-for-all.
What would we all be experiencing, if womben were effortlessly inhabiting their body-mind-spirit, and navigating not from fear-tension-pain, but from a spiralling upwards cycle of presence, relaxed-alertness and expansion?
Many of us are exploring these threads of inquiry, and weaving our work into a far finer fabric of reality than currently prevails. Rather than accepting our being diminished into power-flowing-only-outwards. And rather than ‘being permitted’ to express ourselves via only incredibly conservative, society-sanctioned, miniaturised versions of ‘reality’…
We’re now speaking across the planet from our wombs, our whole sentience, our deepest transcendental bliss, our trauma – and we’re finding our wholeness, our ability to move harmoniously in the world, through this.
The whole womban is being witnessed, as we’re beginning to witness ourselves.
See my website via www.claregalloway.com
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I am so glad to have found you @clareartista. I too have wondered, Why aren't women changing the world overnight? Because it is possible.
I think you are so wise in believing we must heal the wound first. And I do believe that many are being called to do just that by downloading new knowledge into the collective conscienceless. Or maybe it is that some have agreed to lift the veil on the systematic suppression and abuse of the feminine. Not matter how it happens, there seems to be a rediscovery of the value of womanhood. I find resources falling into my lap, with one discovery leading to another. Woman who Run with Wolves, by Clarita Pinkola-Estees was followed by, The Story of V, by Catherine Blackledge, which inspired my recent post, The Divine Vagina. I learned that there are actual carved-in-stone relics out there of vagina worship, not just phallic obsession. I can see how even the idea of calling out toxic masculinity is actually a return to valuing femininity. But it takes the spark of interest and the desire to dig deeper to discover what lays under the veil. I hope, like you, that women can heal and take our power back, and pull our skirts up above our heads and display our vaginas with pride. In the infinite cycle of yin and yang, clearly the wheel is turning. The question is, can we find divine balance? 🌱
Oooh - yes, yes, YES, @bia.birch! I will look into your post which sounds wonderful - and I am so glad to hear your affinity - there is such power in knowing our path together - in witnessing each other - it is such a potent time! Thank you for speaking here, and inspiring me to keep on my path - thank you for lifting your skirt - yes to this!! And yes to can we find divine balance - we're certainly living in an age where a growing collective is turning our ship towards cosmic alignment... I have huge optimism for us realising 'it is possible' and getting on with it <3 So much gratitude for our doing this :-)
Oh and PS - I love Clarissa Pinkola Estes' work - and so many books around orgasmic birth and natural harmony with our bodies - and Naomi Wolf's Vagina, A New Biography - incredible writings going on in the fields of women's healing!
There is so much to discover! I am grateful to find others on the path too 🌱
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Great publication. Honest, full of very feminine truths. I believe that being born a woman, in any era, has been a total challenge to established canons. We act according to what societies expect of us. We don't realize the oppression because it's normal. We don't realize our deep sensitivity and harmony until another woman tells us so. I am very grateful for this thoughtful publication. Greetings @clareartista
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Thank you so much for this wonderful comment, dear @marcybetancourt - it is very good to have connection with you, and I too believe and know that we very much need each others' stories to understand our own experience. We are very blessed to live in a time when we are able to communicate as never before, across oceans and time zones! I am so glad to be in lots of networks of women reclaiming their language and their story <3
@clareartista, Empowerment comes from Self first no matter what is the Gender. Have a great time ahead and stay blessed.
It comes from both self and from the collective: especially for women - we have a great need to work in the collective - where our sense of identity and purpose, our embodied wisdom and our collective vision and intention come from. A woman isolated is a woman deeply dis-empowered. Women's language is like an indigenous language; very different from the mainstream (e.g. 'English') and very much needed in the world - a more wholistic and flowing, felt and visioning, subtle and shared, interconnectedness of being. I speak about this in greater detail via a blog I also shared here recently - on Women And Language: https://steemit.com/dsound/@clareartista/20200117t154120594z-podcast-4-in-the-divine-feminine-series-womens-language It is important to keep the space open and nurtured, protected and safe, for women to find their voices in. <3 Thank you for your blessing and good words. Many good things to you, too, @chireerocks
Welcome and i prefer to see every aspect through Neutral Perspective. And every suppressed voice deserve Freedom Of Space to express, it's their right no matter who is creating what rules. This era is Awakening one and everyone is understanding their power, to fly like a Bird just we have to leave behind the Fear. Keep spreading your voice and keep empowering your fellow beings. Stay blessed. 🙂