The Goddess Treatment
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Women often lose sight of their Goddess status on this planet. It’s a cycle that should have been broken hundreds of years ago, but somehow we find ourselves sucked right into the trap, and our daughters are following right behind.
Everyday I hear from women who are told, verbally or other wise, that they will never be good enough. It’s difficult to get this out of your psyche after you believe it long enough.
We should in fact be our biggest champions, because we cannot expect males to understand something that they’ve never experienced. If some change isn’t made soon, our daughters may never have the kind of relationships that I have been fortunate enough to have with my girlfriends.
Enter the Goddess treatment.
The Oxford dictionary states that a Goddess is a female deity; a woman who has divine status, quality or nature; One who is adored, especially for her beauty.
In some cultures Goddesses are commonly associated with the Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses may also be associated with functions such as war, death, and destruction as well as healing.
Either way Goddess are powerful and mean business.
In our society, Goddesses are shown everywhere, from art to fashion, yet as girls we are told that we must be seen and not heard.
The Mona Lisa one of the most famous works of Art. The woman shown isn’t the western culture’s definition of what is ‘beautiful’, but her regal and knowing look that holds our attention.
What is she thinking about?
Who is she knowingly smiling at?
What does she know that we don’t?
Yet as women, society almost encourages us to revile and be unnecessarily judgmental about each other, after all, who do you think you are, and what give you the right to be so fly?
As a Goddess you have all the right in the world to do you.
Thing is, as a woman, being unable to find anything positive to say about another woman, even though you live the same day to day struggles that all women encounter in this life, says a lot more about you and your self esteem than it does about the person who you insist on pulling down.
We have the tendency to freely give of ourselves to others, male and female, even when there is clearly nothing that we can gain from it.
A wise woman once told me that the thing that sets us humans apart from animals is the ability to choose; No one can do us ill unless we let them. Love is a cycle – it cannot exist if it is incomplete; You cannot truly love someone else, if you do not love yourself enough to say it and show it to yourself daily, every second of everyday.
Let us not try to seek self worth from others, but nurture and reinforce it within ourselves. This way when someone comes along and professes ‘love’ for us, since we already know what love feels like, we can call them on it when it falls dramatically short.
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Forward ever…
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