They love it! I hear all sorts of amazing characteristics—strong, beautiful, kind, honest, independent, bold, fun, crazy yes, crazy can be good , carefree, and the list goes on. This is because what is strong to me may not be the same to someone else. When I think strong, I think a businesswoman taking charge in a group. However, I have had many clients say strength for them is working out daily or eating healthy or being equal to their husband in their marriage.
So, it is important not to assume that your way of defining a word is the only way. Looking to define it for yourself? Then, the next step is to discuss what behaviors or actions elicit those characteristics.
How do you need to behave so that others see those characteristics in you? What makes you feel beautiful? Is it doing your hair and makeup every day? Or, is it speaking kindly to others?
Having worked with people with a substance abuse problem in the past, I instantly think sober. However, many women describe it as eating clean , working out, using healthcare products free of dyes, etc.
So, I say to them: do you need to do better with your personal hygiene? Do you need to work to let the little things go so that you can be carefree? What does fun mean to you? Is fun going out with your girlfriends every weekend and having a cocktail or is it hanging out with your children and using your imaginations? Or, is it both depending on the moment?
As we process through these characteristics and questions, it is so fun to watch the transformation of someone who looked sad, insecure, fearful, and angry to someone bold, independent, fun, beautiful, and carefree. I will never forget a patient who, during her first session, had no sparkle in her eyes.
As I learn to handle my hormones and myself better, I become more and more a woman. Maybe, womanhood is not a state that girls attain, but rather a series of thresholds that they cross into an ever-unfolding journey. Perhaps, different girls have different ways in which they become women.
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