Woman as True, Empowered Individuals

Rupturing the Mother Line and the Cost of Becoming Real

Linked is a great article on the pressures experienced by women, especially mothers, in the modern world which is yet to break free from patriarchal expectations.

I see time and time again with Mickel Therapy clients, people, especially women, sacrificing their own needs for others and the expectations of society that they grow up believing are normal.

Ultimately, in being a good person, mother, daughter, woman, they end up playing small and denying themselves their own birthright as empowered individuals, leaving them unfulfilled, frustrated, out of balance and ultimately displaying symptoms such as chronic fatigue, chronic pain, adrenal exhaustion, anxiety, depression, gut disturbances, immune system abnormalities etc. etc.

Failing to meet one’s deepest needs (at the heart level) is one of the main ways we internalise stress in the modern world. When we internalise or suppress our deepest, most primal, emotional needs, we send our hypothalamus into overdrive. This gland, in our brain stem, is involved in homeostasis, or maintenance of health. When the hypothalamus overdrive, it is like you are running a biochemical marathon internally, and it will inevitably result in physical symptoms. If you continually run a marathon externally, it doesn’t take much to see that you will end up exhausted, in pain, anxious, depressed, with immune deficiencies, gut problems etc. etc. And so it is also the case that if you are continually running a biochemical marathon internally, there’s a high chance that you’ll also end up with the same symptoms.

The same applies for men, but they are more likely fail to empower and fulfill themselves as a result of societal demands that suggest that if they pursue and achieve success they will end up happy, so they sacrifice their own desires, loves, needs, balance etc. in the pursuit of material goals – money, career, sporting achievements etc. etc.

Women can also sacrifice their needs by pursuing these expectations also, so they experience threats to their own fulfillment on two fronts rather than one (in the case for men).

http://womboflight.com/2014/12/21/the-rupture-of-the-mother-line-and-the-cost-of-becoming-real/