The Introduction

I AM WOMAN

As a woman, we have countless roles: mother, wife, friend, sister, daughter, employee, boss, and innumerable other positions. If I told you that it was easy, I would be lying. It is a lot of work and many hats to fulfill. We must push through insurmountable things to keep up with the roles that we play. There are times that you may need to cry, scream, or just have that one moment of silence. There are times when you may need to take a moment and fall apart, but you feel that you cannot, that you are not allowed, that you must keep pushing, and that you must keep moving on.

Maybe it is because you cannot let your children see you unsteady. Maybe it is because you cannot let your husband, boyfriend, or even boss see that he has “won” at that moment. But each time, the one thing that you are forced to remember is: that you are a WOMAN.

It is hard, very hard. But we are taught that we do not get to take a day off. We do not get to lie down and take a moment to feel, a moment to sulk. When we do, things around us seem to fall apart: the household, the office… So, we just keep moving through this thing called life and not taking OUR MOMENT! It is hard, very hard. But it makes us who we are.

A lot of us have been programmed to think that way, and that is ok. It is true that we do not get to take a day off: but that does not mean that we do not get to take time for ourselves. I wish I would have learned this concept early on. That is the one part that had been left out for me. Because we feel the obligation to be a nurturer, does not mean that we cannot love ourselves and tend to ourselves in the exact same manner that we do our husbands, children, careers, parents, and so forth.

You can be what a WOMAN is supposed to be while taking care of yourself too. I learned this lesson through a lot of hard times, you do not have to. Make time for yourself and your dreams. Make time for YOU.

I AM WOMAN