Read time: Under 2 minutes  Do you ever feel like you are holding back? You’re not living fully? Maybe you always bite your tongue and go with the flow, or maybe you push your true desires down because you’re worried what people would say. Maybe you’ve resigned to being the accommodating mother/wife/ employee or friend that you’ve always been while deep down knowing there’s so much more to you.

When did we stop giving ourselves permission to follow our heart? Was it when we “grew up” and got jobs, bought a house, had a family? Somewhere along the way we left ourselves behind. Ladies, we have been raised in an environment that praises good girls…girls that stay quiet, look pretty, use manners, accommodate others, serve others, become someone’s “better half”. But what happened to the rest of you? You know, the part that wants to resist the “good girl” mask a little. Embrace your edgy, your sensual, your powerful, your artistic, your emotional self. This is the full and complete you. Give yourself full permission to express your true emotions even anger and rage.  Every human, regardless of gender, has the right to experience ALL emotions. Rather than stuff down emotions we were told were “bad” or unlady like, I want you to feel them all. What emotions do you repress? What emotions to do deny yourself due to our societal conditioning? The next time you feel an “unlady-like emotion”, I want you to pause and tell yourself it’s okay to feel it. Why? Because suppressing strong emotions makes us sick!   How would you live each day if the old patriarchal conditioning wasn’t ingrained in your head? You know, where we were taught to smile all the time, hold in our anger, look pretty, keep our opinions to ourselves, speak only when spoken too, and always be polite….yeah all that craziness. While we are starting to shift this old paradigm, it takes each of us doing our part within ourselves. Allow each other the space to be wild! Encourage our children to be all of them, not just the pieces our culture accepts. Give yourself permission to let all of you out. As an act of self love, allow yourself to be all that you were born to be by stating out loud: I HEREBY GRANT MYSELF FULL PERMISSION TO LIVE AS FULLY AND HONESTLY AS MY HEART DESIRES. IT IS MY BIRTHRIGHT TO LIVE MY WILD, AUTHENTIC LIFE, REGARDLESS OF HOW IT MAY INCONVENIENCE PEOPLE IN MY SOCIAL CIRCLE. Embrace and Own.