Love, love, love this! This is a beautiful example of what I have longed to hear and advocate for, for many years.
As a counselling psychologist it can be so difficult to see people struggling to find their identity and to keep up with all the new ways terms used for people trying to explain their gender identity. It actually seemed more like trying to fit into a box with a label. I asked and wondered “what if those born with ovaries for to define what being a woman/being female meant to them” and those without got to define what being male meant for them”?!?! So a woman is a woman whether there is nail polish and high heels in place or if she takes apart engines or explores hidden places. Chatty or quiet. Whoever and whatever you were created for. And the same for men—-athletic, academic, adventurous, nurturing, artistic, cries easily or never in public. Wearing jeans and jerseys or pastel coloured button ip shirts….
Love, love, love that you figured out what being a woman means for you Rachel. So much freedom in defining that for yourself! So beautiful to hear your read it - to hear it with your voice. So courageous!💕
Rachel thank you for sharing a part of yourself again! Your poem is well written and thought out. Everyone is unique and precious in God's eyes. You are a woman and I'm so glad you know who you are and to whom you belong. Too many people just try to fit in a box and you are breaking free of those confines. You are beautiful and perfect just the way you are! I am proud of you!!!
Psalm 139
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well
Love you just the way you are Rachel, and I'm glad you're confident in who God made you ❤️
Love, love, love this! This is a beautiful example of what I have longed to hear and advocate for, for many years.
As a counselling psychologist it can be so difficult to see people struggling to find their identity and to keep up with all the new ways terms used for people trying to explain their gender identity. It actually seemed more like trying to fit into a box with a label. I asked and wondered “what if those born with ovaries for to define what being a woman/being female meant to them” and those without got to define what being male meant for them”?!?! So a woman is a woman whether there is nail polish and high heels in place or if she takes apart engines or explores hidden places. Chatty or quiet. Whoever and whatever you were created for. And the same for men—-athletic, academic, adventurous, nurturing, artistic, cries easily or never in public. Wearing jeans and jerseys or pastel coloured button ip shirts….
Love, love, love that you figured out what being a woman means for you Rachel. So much freedom in defining that for yourself! So beautiful to hear your read it - to hear it with your voice. So courageous!💕
Thank you! ❤️
Well said. I too would have been horrified by a mandatory spa day at a summer camp!
Beautiful.
Well written.
Keep going.
Rachel thank you for sharing a part of yourself again! Your poem is well written and thought out. Everyone is unique and precious in God's eyes. You are a woman and I'm so glad you know who you are and to whom you belong. Too many people just try to fit in a box and you are breaking free of those confines. You are beautiful and perfect just the way you are! I am proud of you!!!
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