I love how effervescent you are. I read your words and they just soar from the page. Is it your birthday this week?? I agree entirely about losing the male gaze, oh it’s soooo refreshing and free’ing right?! Xx
More importantly we become visible to ourselves ….. our body ensures we become connected to it again in such a profound way. The hormones that have attached us to the needs of others,(oxytocin primarily) drastically reduces, and we find ourselves liberated . Thus we start to question in a way that perhaps we have not before… the reduction of testosterone and thus reduction in libido means we no longer feel the need to squeeze our bodies into ‘sexy clothes’ and our waistbands can also become more flexible and unrestrained! Bliss!!!
Annette! I had goosebumps reading this beautiful post to celebrate your 50th birthday. Not because I was imagining that cold Irish Sea in which you immerse yourself, but because of your dreamy writing that brings me right into those choppy, pink waters with you. I loved reading about the ways you marked your birthday these past six years in the sea. It is so moving that you make that pleasure a priority for yourself, and so inspiring. And that writing retreat... wow!!! Sounds absolutely lush and I just know you are going to have a magical experience. I have never been on one so you will have to let me know how it goes. Very much looking forward to joining you for the Selkie Circle...what a fire-fuelled wonderful era of expansion you are moving into! I am here for it sister x
Happy 50th -- wonderful writing x
Thank you so much Jan ☺️
I love how effervescent you are. I read your words and they just soar from the page. Is it your birthday this week?? I agree entirely about losing the male gaze, oh it’s soooo refreshing and free’ing right?! Xx
Thank you so much, Helen 🫧 My birthday was 2 weeks ago 😉
Gah, I missed it. Would you mind sending me a DM with your address??
More importantly we become visible to ourselves ….. our body ensures we become connected to it again in such a profound way. The hormones that have attached us to the needs of others,(oxytocin primarily) drastically reduces, and we find ourselves liberated . Thus we start to question in a way that perhaps we have not before… the reduction of testosterone and thus reduction in libido means we no longer feel the need to squeeze our bodies into ‘sexy clothes’ and our waistbands can also become more flexible and unrestrained! Bliss!!!
I never thought of the hormonal upheaval of menopause as a detachment from the needs of others. Thanks for that, Katrice.
Annette! I had goosebumps reading this beautiful post to celebrate your 50th birthday. Not because I was imagining that cold Irish Sea in which you immerse yourself, but because of your dreamy writing that brings me right into those choppy, pink waters with you. I loved reading about the ways you marked your birthday these past six years in the sea. It is so moving that you make that pleasure a priority for yourself, and so inspiring. And that writing retreat... wow!!! Sounds absolutely lush and I just know you are going to have a magical experience. I have never been on one so you will have to let me know how it goes. Very much looking forward to joining you for the Selkie Circle...what a fire-fuelled wonderful era of expansion you are moving into! I am here for it sister x
Kelly, I had goosebumps reading this amazing comment! Thank you so, so much, my friend 💙 and see you Thursday in the Selkie Circle 🦭✨🪷