Disconnection and polarization are not our natural way and are not what any human truly wants. We would not have survived without an underlying drive towards connection and collaboration. We yearn for it. It is our inherent nature. We have been trained not to notice the abundance of shining examples all around and within but they are there.

Have you noticed it - the steady stream of apologies that flow from the mouths of Women and Girls? If it hasn’t yet caught your attention, stop and listen, for a day, an hour, a few moments and it will. These apologies may appear to flow with ease, but I assure you that is not the case. It took generations and generations of painful conditioning to install this pattern of internalized self-deprecation and self-erasure into the bodies and psyches of our sisters, mothers and daughters.

We so often want to turn away from what scares us. That’s so understandable! We've been barraged with messages our whole lives telling us to stay “safe,” be “normal” and “rational”, and so against our natural inclination, we learn to suppress our deepest, truest ideas, yearnings and knowings. Often without even noticing we are doing so.

You don’t have to settle for heeding these notions that limit you and our world. You just don’t! These messages are loud and convincing, but they become so much less so when we tune into and listen to ourselves and each other.