Menstrual cycle and emotional resilience
I used to confuse the term ‘resilience’ with ‘pushing through’. It took me quite a while to realize that pushing through life is a recipe for disaster, manifesting itself through physical and mental overload, poor health, low quality of communications, gradual social withdrawal, and a sense of isolation. In my early thirties, I got curious […]
Regenerative vs. sustainable women’s mental health
The mental health and emotional well-being of women and people with estrogen cycles I view from two directions. It can be regenerative, where once we get to the breaking point we need to fix something through variety of aliviating techniques, wheather it is meditaiton retreat or vigorous physical routines, therapy talk or inner silence, turning […]
On the gender empathy gap, womanhood and hopes for the future
What do women of ancient times or the Renaissance have in common with women from Siberia, Brazil, or Tokyo of today? What unites them? What lies at the core of all women? Certainly not fleeting societal norms and beliefs about what women should look like and ways they should behave, dress, and act. Those rules […]
From my diary. Part 2.
By the age of twenty, I lived frightened of my cyclical nature with monthly blood, pain, and mood swings. I feared being punished for acting out, speaking out, appearing weak, or the way I looked or behaved. I was afraid of being unseen, serving others, and living my life unfulfilled. I yearned for dignifying gender […]
From my diary. Part 1.
As any woman born into a man’s world, I had to learn its linear ways. For representing just half of the world’s population, men’s ways surely had overtaken the world. And yes, matriarchal societies exist but represent only 0.062% of the world’s population. Not even 0.1%. Before I learned to think on my own, I had deeply […]