Celebrate-your-womanhood Therapy

Accept and experience the grace in growing older. Character and wisdom are beauty.

Respect your intuitive knowledge. It is emotional wisdom and razor-edged logic working together.

Experience the common humanity you share with men. Enjoy the differences and the similarities you each bring to relationships.

Experience your sisterhood with other women. You share journeys, hurts, yearnings, joys in ways deeper, more essential, than disagreements and competitiveness.

Rejoice in your abilities. When you do something well, it’s not “just like a man” or “pretty good, for a woman.” It’s womanly and it’s you.

There’s no need to wait for Prince Charming—or for anyone else who will take care of you and your life. You can make decisions, assume the initiative, shape your existence, take responsibility for yourself.

Refuse to be exploited, patronized, or treated as an inferior, an accessory, an ornament. Feel a solidarity with other women when they are. And do what you can to bring about change.

When you are demeaned, diminished, or dismissed, assert your dignity with conviction. You can do so without demeaning the other person.

Your ability to make connections, nurture relationships, value life is a gift. Apply it to your community; exercise it globally.

It’s fine to want to look attractive. But it feels best when you do what seems natural, not phony, and when you start, not from a position of self-hate and insecurity, but from one of selflove and acceptance.