Thoughts on Womanhood, From Debbie Rosas.

All my life I have seen women struggle to get out of the bodies they have been given. I have been the witness to intelligent and powerful women unconsciously giving away their bodies while diminishing their power to be accepted. The worst part of the whole thing is the ongoing energetic game played between openly expressing the feminine spirit and covering her up!

A most sacred and precious part of every woman is either on display or in hiding. It is no wonder if the women of today are confused. I believe that if we are to honor our sacred identities, then we must first and foremost discover that for our selves, our beauty, and our power. In doing so, what we have may be cultivated and shared with others in many healthy and healing ways.

When I was a girl, I never doubted my ability or for that matter, I never thought anyone had an edge or priority over me.  That veil was dissolved when everything inside me felt like it was pulling. I felt the clouds, the trees, and all the beauty of the earth, and then I felt like a dark screen on a television. I was sucked into my female body. I felt heavy. And I felt pain. Ugh! 

The sexual revolution of the mid 20th century, like any revolution, set free a part of women that needed to be set free.  Embracing what is natural; the passion, beauty, and power of the feminine spirit, was how we become whole to heal. There is no secret cream for walking with pride, beauty, and grace. There is, however, a way to get this and more. I call it, Awakening.

I had turned thirteen and I had started menstruating. I was no longer a girl who felt safe and free. I was a woman who felt vulnerable. The blood that came from my body left me feeling separate and alone. Human. I sat in my backyard looking up at a tree. The passion that had driven me to run and climb that tree was gone. I could feel doubt and fear in my body. 

It has taken me decades to understand that my purpose is speaking about the divinity of the feminine spirit. This brings me peace. It fills me with deep satisfaction knowing that my work is to be what I am, a woman, a magnificent creation filled with the love and light of the Cosmos. What a gift, to recognize my value and gifts within each thought and breath I take!

I suppose if I had lived in a community where girls were ceremoniously brought into womanhood, I may have felt excited, even more powerful than before. But I didn’t. My Midwestern, conservative environment left little room for that kind of celebration. Years passed and many opportunities were missed, before I would reclaim myself as a Whole Being.

My university, where I gain my higher education, is my body. I go there to learn. My degree is earned by being the best I can be with what I have been given as tools. The tools I have, I honor and respect. I regard them as glorious. I relate to each tool, to all parts of me as sacred and divine. Even my feet, which are my hands that touch the Earth, are sacred to all that I am.

I recognized the devastating effects of that experience and healed from the separation and abandonment from a part of myself that gave me such joy. When I welcomed both the masculine and the feminine energies into my Whole Being; the girl was there again. So too, a beauty and with it, a power I once had to run with the boys and one day, even with the men.

I am continually reminded through sensation, what a joy and a gift it is to be in the body of a woman. So for me, my purpose is telling you that you are beautiful and reminding you to feel the essence of who you really are. I am here to help you reclaim and recreate yourself in an image and in a form that allows you to feel and express the joy and beauty of being a woman.

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