Comments on: Journeying into the Feminine

By: Arlene Sitarz

Arlene Sitarz — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:04:04 +0000

Hi Megan!

I really appreciate hearing your brutal honesty about
being a woman. I would really like to learn myself to
consciously accept my femininity and my womanhood
instead of being afraid of it in myself. Even though
I exude sensuality, softness and femininity I consciously
do not accept it and the word woman has a charge to it
for me. Where would be a good idea to start being
more conscious of my womanhood?

Thanks!

Arlene

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:42:33 +0000

Hi Roxanne!

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to hear that you love being a woman – I’m finding that is immensely rare… Every woman like you makes me want to cheer!

I’m glad you posted the info about your friend, hopefully it will be a huge help to someone else. I never thought of a Chiropractor… For me, actually, PCOS didn’t challenge my woman-ness – I just always had PCOS… it turns out that in my case that the lack of woman-ness caused the PCOS… It would be interesting to know how many PCOS women share my story wouldn’t it?

Yours,
Megan

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:27:39 +0000

Tess,

I’m so glad you like the discussion, considering you helped inspire it. And now this comment inspired a new one! You must be my muse this week.

I wish I’d had that awareness earlier too… There’s not much good in wishing you could go back in time, so I’ve decided to settle with asking how I can make things better for the future (or for others). I’ve heard of that book – it’s referenced in another book I’m currently working through – but haven’t read it yet. This is actually the smallest section of my book shelf and I’m on a forced book buying embargo (my husband loves me, but he’d like to eat dinner too). But, it’s definitely on my radar now!

Yours,
Megan

By: Tess

Tess — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:21:29 +0000

I so very much enjoyed reading this and your last post. Such wonderful blossoming. (Thanks for the link in the first one, also.) Periods are over for me now, and my experience of menstruation has been an overwhelmingly positive rite of passage into another stage of womanhood. I only wish I’d had that awareness of myself growing from girl into woman in my teenage years. There’s (another!) book you might be interested in. Exploring menstruation and called The Wise Wound, by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove. It’s years since I read it but I just checked the reviews on Amazon, which matched my memory of it as a life changing book.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:51:48 +0000

I, too, love, absolutely adore, being a woman. And yes, the menses embody the incredible gift and power of our bodies. An aside about PCOS … a dear friend of mine struggled with this for years. Chiropractic and a procedure known as “ovarian drilling” bascially cured her; no kidding. And ever since, she has gotten her menses like Swiss clockwork ~ exactly a 28-day cycle.

Just thought I’d pass on the info. I can see how something like PCOS could challenge a woman’s feeling of … woman-ness …