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I used to think Liberation was tied to somehow escaping the limitations of my body.
In service to our modern day ideals of busy-ness, individualism, and productivity, I drove myself to self-destruction and exhaustion, ignoring my body's needs as I chased a career, thinking that was the path to fulfillment.
Eventually, I collapsed in grief, heartbroken at facing
the truth that the illusion I had put so much time and energy into chasing wasn't making me feel any better.
The patriarchal pillars that held up my psyche began to crumble, and I slowly returned to my body. At a time when it seemed completely illogical and incomprehensible to my rational mind, I surrendered to the deep yearning and ache my body held to enter Motherhood.
Along this path, while deepening my study of meditation, I learned that my conditioned understanding of Liberation had been wrong all along.
I learned that Liberation wasn't about escaping the body, but fully embracing it.
Instead of being at odds with the so-called "inconveniences" of my female physiology, I started listening to and honoring the quiet needs that my body whispered to me.
I rested more, I ate more, I let myself be held more.
When I leaned into lovingly tending what I had first thought were limitations, I discovered an unlimited well of bliss and fulfillment rising from within me.
From that point on, I've come to believe that Women's Natural and Undisturbed Physiology, when well-tended to, is intelligently and divinely designed to be an easeful, blissful, and joyful experience.
It wasn't the functions of my body that inherently caused suffering, but the ill-fitting structure of our surrounding society that made it hard to tend to myself properly.
Our world has unfortunately experienced millennia of erasure of our foremothers' wisdom on how to tend to ourselves as Women: both our souls and our bodies.
I believe that our path to healing and remembering begins in circle: sitting with other women, sharing our
stories, holding and witnessing one another—each of us a valuable piece of the Arc on the Great Circle of Womanity.
These are my offerings to that circle, my little contribution of what I've learned from nearly a decade of mothering 3 children as a single mother in my twenties, while watering my soul and nourishing my body with what would seem like very little resources, and learning how to do it all in ease, bliss, and joy.
May all women come home to the comfort of a well-tended body that can embrace the living world in all its fullness.
With Love,
DeeDee
Creator of "Arc of Womanhood"
arcofwomanhood@gmail.com