I remember when I first went through my spiritual awakening & was feeling so exhausted that every day I would pray that I would return to full health & vitality. I laugh back on that practice now as I see the distortion in how I wanted my body to perform. What I thought full health & vitality for a woman was. I was simply devastated that I could no longer do all the things I felt I needed to be doing.
I lived my life over achieving & over doing and completely going against my body and it’s signals to slow down . Not understanding or hearing my womb whispering to me to STOP living in flight or fight mode. To stop relying on my adrenals to get me through. To stop doing when my body was exhausted. To simply stop rushing and thinking that my ‘success’ at the end of the day was on how much I had done.
As I live more in tune with my body, womb & menstrual cycle now I see clearly that full health&vitality as a woman means we do not have the same energy day to day. That we need to come to a complete hault during menstruation every single month so we can be in full health. To separate completely from doing during our inner winter and to melt into what it really means to be a woman. We are the vessel that creates all life and it is only through rest and stopping that we really get to tap into that feminine power.
For this I believe is what the future generations will benefit from the most. Women who listen to their bodies. Who are tapped into the power of their wombs. Why..because we are all birthed from the womb. Can we keep birthing children from a wounded, unhealthy, distorted place ?
Women have been ripped away from the power of their womb, their menstrual cycle and their bodies so much so that we don’t even know what true health means for us anymore. On the days when we bleeding or just needing to slow down can we remember that simply being a woman is more than enough.
The distortion in the world around success and achieving for both men& women is leading to burn out, infertility, cancer, heart disease and the list is endless. They say health is our wealth but have we really changed our lifestyles to facilitate true health?
Can we advocate for women to be able to be able to stop during menstruation?. Can we help a woman while she is bleeding ?
Does it matter anymore what we do or how successful we are, how much we are serving the world? If we are not serving ourselves and our wombs as women?
When our wombs are healthy we know we have mastered our health, spiritually emotionally & physically which we get to pass on to the next generation of women. Imagine birthing not only children but redefining what it means to be a woman by remembering and reclaiming the divine feminine, our wombs and menstrual cycle. To birth a whole new paradigm for women.
So this is my prayer. May I love my womb so deeply that I always listen to her and may this listening help her to return to full health, full power , full creativity , full remembrance of the divine feminine and may this in turn help me to be fully rooted and grounded in what it truely means to be a woman.
How much are you nurturing and nourishing your body and womb? How much are you taking a inner winter each month? How much are you truly embracing what it means to be in woman in a world that has tried to make us forget the power that we are.
Grá Mòr Léan xx
