Is it Romantic for a Woman to be Blind?

It seems like in every book I read and film I watch lately all revelations of a woman's true value are happening through supporting characters. Her brilliance is revealed to her by the ones looking AT her rather than an acknowlegement and exprience of her own enoughness.

Women in this culture are trained to believe we have to see our beauty through the eyes of others. A generation of heroines destined to live in grateful reciprocity but also complete denial of their own magnificence and the affect they have on others, because they've never actually experienced it except through the lens of someone else.

I am a woman who knows exactly how wonderful, powerful and beautiful I truly am. I live my days in service to the unique creative life force I am. I cherish it, tend to it, give it and call it back as needed. I guide and direct it to create things that mean something to me, that I love. I'm learning to wield it well.

I receive the gift of myself.

I gaze at my reflection, I smile and love myself - not because I'm dreaming of all the validation I can win from others when I trade in my looks and how I act for other people's approval, but because I truly SEE and feel my own inherent worth and I actually know how valuable I am.

I accept of all aspects of myself - even the ones I haven't accepted yet.

I love how I am able to rise after a fall. I love how I am able to be myself, even when it's challenging.

That's why it's easier now to care less about being misunderstood by other people. I know they haven't seen the whole story.

I have been with myself from the beginning. Every single day of my life. Through everything I have ever been through, I have watched myself. I have been there with and for myself through it all.

Despite all the illusions of shame, criticism, self-doubt and other people's projections that clouded my mirror with grime and dust and everything in the culture that tried to seal my eyes shut and keep me looking everywhere but within, I was able to feel my own value and see who I really am.

This is my hope and prayer for every single woman.

Know YourSelf.