The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.
As children, a great number of us were taught by our parents, carers, extended family members, and teachers, that showing any form of emotional vulnerability was __ot OK._ We were conditioned to believe that in order to be acceptable as human beings, we had to be like the other children. We were taught to __uck it up,_ __top being cry babies,_ __et thicker skin,_ __top being so sensitive_ and go participate with the other kids, even if they overwhelmed us with their energy.
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As children, a great number of us were taught by our parents, carers, extended family members, and teachers, that showing any form of emotional vulnerability was __ot OK._ We were conditioned to believe that in order to be acceptable as human beings, we had to be like the other children. We were taught to __uck it up,_ __top being cry babies,_ __et thicker skin,_ __top being so sensitive_ and go participate with the other kids, even if they overwhelmed us with their energy.
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