The Ways Women Try to Escape Power

For generations, we’ve tried to escape the truth of our power. We tried to starve ourselves so we were weak. We tried withdrawing and convincing ourselves we were spiritual people or artists. We tried illnesses and massive anxiety that we needed medication for.

We tried draining it all into a relationship.
We tried pretending we don’t have any power. We tried running it out through outrage not plugged into anything.
We tried overachieving to prove or earn our value. We tried competing with men to prove we are equal.

We tried having relationships with men with power who we thought could ordain or imbue us with value. We tried taking other women down because we thought there wasn’t enough power to go around.

But denying this power is the root of suffering for women and the world.

We tried convincing ourselves that other women with
‘more voice’ are more powerful so we should just stay quiet. We tried avoiding relationships and sex altogether, swearing off anything that could take us out of control.

We tried abdicating our sexuality through a masculine approach to religion, selling out on our power for the supposed safety and sanctity of being seen as pure/purified. We tried demonizing our past sexual experiences in order to divorce ourselves from the power that owning them would bring us.

When we begin to acknowledge these truths, we see that the responsibility and blame we tried to place outside of ourselves is in direct response to our discomfort in owning our power.

When we reclaim these parts of ourselves, we reclaim our power. Only then can we become 
a force for liberation.