What Lena Dunham taught me as a Wild Woman

I'm listening to Lena Dunhams latest memoir, Famesick

She talks about sleeping with with men she did not want to sleep with. How she would give her time and attention to everyone who asked something of her. How she was so eager to people please that she put her own needs last and everyone else, even strangers on the street, she put first, in a bid to be liked.

How many of us can relate to this people pleasing behaviour? As a society, women are praised for giving, helping, being of assistance. It's in our nature to want to help others. We are groomed to be "good little girls", and polite to a fault even when the person in front of us is very wrong.

I remember walking my new puppy Ylandah when I was 16 down my street. This man said what a cute dog and squatted down to pat her. We were talking and as we did his erect member poked out of his shorts. I had never seen one before and was deeply shocked, but for some reason, I decided to be polite and excuse myself to keep on walking. I did not tell anyone about this until years later. I felt shame around it. And what a benign story that is compared to the crap my friends have been confronted with over the years.

What I mean to say is that the way we are tamed as young girls, becomes a disservice to us as we grow and are faced with life's sharper edges.

I want us to take back our power. To conserve our precious energy instead of giving it away freely to strangers. To nurture and care for ourselves so deeply that we would not stand for others taking advantage of us.

I want us to embody this so fully that we can teach OUR daughters to navigate tricky situations with this sense of empowerment. With this sense of ownership of their divine worth.

This is what Return of the Wild Woman is about.

She embodies the Wild Woman she dreams she can be. She visualises it so that she can step into it. She creates rituals to keep her energy elevated into the Wild Woman archetype. She nurtures herself deeply. She holds her energetic boundaries firm so that she is not drained and devotes her energy only to her value system.

This Thursday, join us live for a Return of the Wild Woman Masterclass. It's free. The topic will be ENERGY ~ the holy grail for women. How to lower expectations on others and ourselves to preserve our energy for what truly matter to us most.

Saying no. The power of the pause. Letting go of things that don't matter. Saying YES to ourselves.

Wild Woman, I can't wait to gather on Thursday.

Sacha Marie xxx