Own Your Roar

The Naked Muse
Sep 4, 2018 · 2 min read

Kristen Cashore, author of Jane Unlimited and the Graceling Realms Trilogy, wrote the most beautiful blog post about where the inspiration for her stories — stories filled with corrupt leaders and powerful girls who grow up to “kill them dead” — comes from — she grew up in the Catholic Church.

(Kristen’s blog post can be found here: http://kristincashore.blogspot.com/…/bhttp://kristincashore.blogspot.com/2018/08/brother-cansrel-father-leck.html)

I didn’t. But I grew up, like so many girls do, with no place to celebrate my knowing, my intuition, my voice, my body, my desire.

The time for reckoning has come. There is no more fog. There are no more lies. We do not need your permission to believe ourselves — or each other — anymore.

The little girls you kept telling stories to are all grown up. You told us we were imagining things. You told us we could not trust our own experience of the world.

You told us instead to trust you who ignored us; to trust the people who hurt us.

You chose to silence our voices and our bodies; to distrust our experiences.

You chose to believe textbooks written by men over our own bodies.

There is no more silencing of what we know to be true. We know what we need; what our children need; what our descendants need.

And so we found and continue to find each other, to band together through shared atrocities, shared abuse, shared healing, shared hope.

We are no longer listening to your lies about “how things work”, “the status quo”, or “who has power”.

We have power.

I have power.

My power exists in believing my own body over your textbooks.

My power is in believing my own worth over your constant criticism and questions.

My power is in giving myself permission to love myself, my body, my choices, my lessons, no matter what you think of them.

My power exists in knowing that my life on earth is about only one thing.

There is nothing that matters beyond truth. My empowerment exists in my ability to unapologetically ask for what I need.

I am here temporarily. You cannot take anything away from ME.

We have nothing left to lose and so so much to gain.

Coming soon:

Owning Your Roar

A 6 month women’s circle. Speak your truth. Be seen. Inspire and be inspired by courageously vulnerable visionaries creating a new life for our selves and our descendents on earth.

It’s time for a new paradigm.

The Naked Muse

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I am a mirror for everything I see, that's why I’m so full of it, full of shit and beauty. https://www.pinterest.ca/thenakedmuse/

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