5 Signs Your Feminine Essence is Seeking Healing

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In a world that deeply reveres the masculine aspects of life (outward, tangible, linear, objective), while diminishing the feminine aspects (feeling-based, subjective, intangible, intrinsic), it has become normalised to push down and devalue the feminine essence, both in subtle and overt ways.

And while this impacts all humans, it is my belief that for the sensitive, soulful woman with a feminine core, this devaluing of the feminine has a particularly deep impact on her energy, purpose and ability to feel fulfilled and supported in the world.

When I began focusing my work and writings on supporting sensitive, creative women to reclaim and honour their feminine soul, I realised how truly widespread this diminishment of our feminine energy really is.

Women from around the world began sharing with me the ways they had neglected, judged and diminished the significance of their feminine essence. They shared how they were grappling with work, environments and relationships that did not support or honour their femininity and heart.

I saw how so many women were finding it challenging to thrive amidst the environments they were living in (familial, societal, work, business), as they took on ill-fitting collective beliefs that were not in service to their feminine being.

I saw how this led to a constant undercurrent of feeling inherently ‘wrong’- as though they must fix and change themselves in order to succeed within their current paradigm.

I saw how the norm for so many of us is to align with the masculine-oriented energies of the world- living, working and relating from this space, and undermining the naturalness and tender power of the feminine nature.

I saw how when we are repeatedly taught to push down our feminine energies, we begin to develop an unconscious resistance towards accepting and allowing these energies to flow within our being, devaluing and hiding our feminine gifts and heart.

I saw how this conditioned response occurs as we watch the way masculinised attributes, performance and mindsets are so highly approved of in the world. In this, striving and performing become an unconscious mechanism to protect our feminine selves against the world, as we adapt and contort ourselves to succeed within a culture that has forgotten the true value of the feminine.

Yet in this, we neglect the feminine energies and desires that sit at the core of our being. When this happens, there is an abandoning of the soul, a diminishment of the natural self and a disconnection to the feminine heart of one’s deeper being.

If this sense of abandonment, diminishment and disconnection feels familiar, it’s so important to understand that this isn’t something that occurs because you are wrong, or need fixing. Instead, it is…

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