A Gift of Gratitude, from Debbie Rosas.
Everything I needed to know in life about being a woman, I learned from my body and my mother. The wisdom and gifts associated with being a woman and living in a woman’s body has taught me to embrace life as a sensory, always changing, sensuous creature. I began with the sense of sight, watching the woman in my life that gave me life, my mother.
A robust Botticelli woman; my mother exuded and still did so at eighty two, the essence of what it meant to be a feminine woman, a lover, mother, and a friend. To this day I reflect on the awe of her feminine grace and beauty. It was a timeless gift of being a woman that she taught me to honor and respect, which I have done throughout my life.
She also taught me that to be in a woman’s body meant taking on the responsibility of creating beauty in my life with others and in the world around me. Everything she did left behind its mark of beauty and consequently left me and those in her presence, breathless. “Creation is a feminine power of women and it is one of our greatest strengths,” she said.
My mother taught me to love, honor, and adorn the sacred vessel of my body visually by dressing it for fun, joy, and pleasure for myself and others. Always, and most importantly for my own satisfaction, as it is I who looks into a mirror and is touched by what I see. If I love what I see, I will reflect this joy inward to my spirit and outward for others to see and sense.
I learned to not only dress myself, but to also dress a table with anticipation that those who would dine with me would be transported into a most magical moment simply by way of what they saw on the table. I also learned to step into the natural world to pause and take the time to look at the praying mantis on a leaf or to listen to a crow calling for my attention.
I learned the benefits of the spiritual pleasure associated with fully giving my body, mind, emotions, and spirit to family, friends, community, and most of all, my partner. I learned to listen to a voice inside me, which was the same voice inside my mother that was her guide. The sacred feminine that holds space for tears, laughter, compassion, sorrow, trust and fear.
I learned to respect, value, and communicate intimately with my feminine intuition and to include this wisdom in my life as a way for living in a body as a woman. As it was another era; I learned to sit on a couch and cross my legs, which I internalized as important to quietly nurturing and silently celebrating what I would eventually share sexually with a partner.
Sitting quietly and knowing deep inside how special the physical and emotional love of the sacred feminine was to me, I learned that to give life goes beyond birthing children. That giving life meant tenderly holding my partner and holding space for them when they were either fearful or remorseful for any one of life’s most unexpected and unforgiving circumstances.
I learned that my true strength is the ability to embrace what is, with the spirit of sacred feminine softness and the tenderness for knowledge, wisdom, and compassion that are folded over decades into the wrinkles of every woman. I learned that what is important to my body and my life is being in every moment, connected, and available in my own time and space.
Most of all, being a woman has taught me to say, “Goodbye” and “Hello.” That every day I live in this body, it is actively both dying and rebirthing. No matter what I experience, whether birth, life, or death, it is all a part of the daily life of embodying a sacred feminine spirit in my body and life. I remember and celebrate this gift from my mother every day with mindfulness.
This Mothers’ Day and every day, I feel my experience and express my truth with myself and with others about the sadness of the parts of myself cyclically dying together with the happiness of the parts of myself renewably living. And, I remember to see and express the beauty and love within, the woman-ness that is mine to have, hold and share every day.
Keeping Our Mother’s Stories Alive,
by Debbie Rosas, is Available to Order!
When Debbie Rosas read her mother Jeanne’s memoir, she connected deeply with her mother’s love story of a new bride leaving London after WWII. Debbie sat, read, felt and imagined her mother as a young woman at the age of 20. The more she read, the more she understood that the greatest lesson which her mother had taught her is that we all have “The ability to love all things and all people.” Something that has been a lifelong guide.
Keeping Our Mothers’ Stories Alive shares Jeanne’s story as a tool to explore and capture Your Mother’s Story. Each chapter engages the reader with questions and tips to document their mother’s life. This book is not only for women, but for all those who played the role of mother in all our lives: men, friends, step, grand and/or foster parents. This book invites the reader to look beyond their own lives, honor the life of another and capture their mother’s love, hope and dreams, to influence future generations to grow into their greatness.
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