I see you.

 

Not how you look on the outside, with your smile and your makeup and your put together look.

But what you won’t – CANNOT – show the world and keep bottled up inside: your emotional pain.

 

Your emotional pain that manifests as physical pain.

Your emotional pain that manifests as relational pain.

Your emotional pain that manifests as struggles with food.

 

Your emotional pain that manifests in any one of thousands of different ways that your body uses so hard to try to get your attention…

 

To get your attention to face the emotional pain you feel you CANNOT.

 

The emotional pain that stems from a lifetime of needs that were not seen, were not heard, were not validated, were not met.

 

And so, you went silent.

 

You stopped expressing your needs.

You stopped asking for help.

You stopped recognizing that you even have needs.

 

And instead, you grew a thick layer of armor around your heart, around your essence, around your femininity.

 

An armor that protects you from ever being hurt by anyone ever again.

 

…and an armor that hurts you all day, every day, and prevents you from ever being cherished for who you truly are.

 

I see you.

 

And I want you to know that there is a way out of this pain.

 

A way to open your heart once again, to tap into your essence once again, to embody your femininity once again. (If even for the very first time ever.)

 

A way that requires bravery to face the pain of peeling away the armor.

 

That requires vulnerability to feel the pain of needs unmet.

 

That requires safety to explore the pain somatically.

 

You who knows this way is not a magical pill or a perfectly linear 5 step plan.

 

You who knows this way is an unraveling, a spiral, a process (even as you admit how you despise that word!).

 

And so, you take the plunge into the deep end, trusting you will be held by the bravery, vulnerability, and safety of the other participants in this sisterhood, ready-as-you’ll-ever-be.