Oana 

Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Uncut The Feminine podcast. I’m Oana, and as usual, I’ll be your guest for the next 30 minutes. Ioana, my colleague, is here with me. And in today’s episode, we plan to give you a personal insight into the feminine. So stay tuned for all of you listening. For the first time, let me introduce myself. I’m the founder of Th Feminine.com, an online platform dedicated to women all over the world. Our mission statement revolves around a totally new and fresh paradigm of self-care, well-being, and being feminine at The Feminine. We believe that once acknowledged and included in our daily life, feminine energy and its values can totally transform the way you live, the way you love, and the way you work. For the past 14 years, I’ve been a transformational coach, and I’ve dedicated the last seven years of my life to empowering women, to trust their voices, follow their hearts, and embrace their womanhood completely. The Feminine is the embodiment of my work, and its main focus and intention are to support women in acknowledging their true power, connecting with their authenticity, and giving a full expression of their gifts to the world.

 

Oana

Each and every Tuesday, we knock at the door of your personal inbox with stories, tips, and tricks, and also powerful practices meant to help you better understand who you are as a woman and also empower your feminine way of being and how you can offer that to the world. Since the first episode, we’ve been passing through some of the most meaningful Chambers of an inner universe of a woman. And today we want to shift from theory to practice, and we want to explore and discover what it looks like to be and live the feminine way. And we have a beautiful question from Charlotte, and Ioana is going to join in on the conversation. And Charlotte asked us some meaningful questions about how to anchor the feminine way of being and living. Ioana?

 

Ioana 

Hello, Oana. I was laughing because I always have problems with this. Hello. Our team always makes fun of the way I say hello because it sounds strange. Yes, I’m going to read Charlotte’s question. Charlotte is a very Darling friend of ours coming from Australia, and she’s always challenging us with very relevant questions. And this time she asks, you are giving all the time these marvelous tools throughout your workshops and in the weekly content, too, but no real timing or instruction around when to put them into practice. This is fine, because obviously a lot of tools are to be used intuitively or when particular situations arise. But I’d really love to hear from Yana. What does she do on a regular basis to keep her sensuality evoked? For example, do you set aside a certain amount of time each day for practice? What do you do when you wake up or when you go to bed? These are her questions but answer in the flow.

 

Oana 

Because the flow is being feminine, and it actually shifts from doing a specific set of practices in a rigid way and trying to tick all the boxes so that you can achieve being feminine, to letting go of the rigid way of structuring and just being the flow. That’s why you said that when we were talking about Charlotte’s question before the podcast, we were actually brainstorming on the difference between being feminine and what to do to be feminine. And it’s a very important, subtle angle to look at. And our work is about being feminine. And I’m going to specifically answer Charlotte’s questions, but I wanted to create a bigger frame or a context in which those questions should be answered. Because of the feminine. We are very interested in shifting the way we perceive life, not just what we do to empower the feminine. And it’s very much about the difference between masculine and feminine at the beginning, as a way to compare them and as a way to bring forth the feminine. Because our Western society is so embedded in the masculine perception and in the masculine way of achieving things, that makes it very hard for us to imagine the feminine.

 

Oana 

And the feminine is about flow. So what I do in a day is relevant and not so relevant because what’s important during a day for me is to allow space for my feminine or my sensuality or whatever type of feminine energy I want to cultivate. So first and foremost where do my awareness and attention go during the day? And it goes into a balance between being feminine and being masculine because I’m not going to throw away my masculinity. I’m not going to throw away the structure or the steps that I need to take to perform or achieve something. I need the logic, I need the brains, I need the structure. But I also need what’s unstructured and what we perceive as the family, which is emotions that usually don’t have a structure or are not so easy to be controlled, which is our humanity in general. So first and foremost, it’s a balance for me that I want to experience every day. And unless I do that, I don’t feel complete at the end of the day. So I’m making sure I’m taking time to be structured, but also fluid. And fluid means giving myself permission to be in my emotions with no absolute objective in mind.

 

Oana 

And that also is everywhere in my life. Like, I take the time with my team in my office to make sure I bond on a human level. And I don’t do that as a way to manipulate my employees or as a way to be a better boss. No, I actually do it because I need that. I need to feel human while I perform. It’s an inner need. So I’m taking the time to give that part of the interaction attention as well with my lover or as well with myself. So I pay attention to my emotional flow, and I take care of my emotional flow during the day. How do I do that? It’s through the practices we’ve been talking about in our podcasts or webinars or workshops, through the breath, through working with my body, like really tuning in or tuning in into the moment, into the energy of the situation, rather than trying to push something just because I have an intention. And for me, I think stepping into the feminine work was a life-changing saving solution. Because I am very structured and I am very masculine and I have a very fiery personality and I need things to get done.

 

Oana 

I love to perform. I am a high achiever, and I get stressed if I don’t perform. But it doesn’t function for me to just perform. I need the other stuff, too. And the other stuff is the feminine values, like inclusiveness, humanity, compassion, and understanding of what’s really going on inside. So that’s one thing is looking at the way of being while you’re mapping a feminine lifestyle and then setting a specific time during the day to attend to that. Because if you don’t put it in your calendar, it will never happen.

 

Ioana 

Okay. This makes sense. And to narrow it a bit even more down, I will come forward with an example of when I’m very tired during a campaign or when we have something really important going on. And I’m telling you, I know I have to do them to finish this by tomorrow, but I’m extremely tired. And I would like to offer an example. What do you tell me in this situation and what’s your feedback? These kinds of situations are relevant for everybody because everybody has a job where we have to perform and we get tired all the time. Okay. I consider myself lucky because I’m working with you, who can not only coach me, but you have a very consistent perspective on the feminine way of coming up with an answer or with a resolution to a problem. But let’s reproduce that.

 

Oana 

Okay. So you’re tired because I’m very tired. By the way.

 

Ioana 

Let’s imagine now it’s for the first time. I’m telling you that I have a deadline tomorrow and I’m really, really tired. And what did you tell me to do, knowing I have to finish the work for tomorrow?

 

Oana 

Not having time for it, because that’s having the time.

 

Ioana 

But I really have to gather my strength in the meantime.

 

Oana 

I don’t say back down on your objective. I never say that. Then you know me.

 

Ioana 

Yes, I know.

 

Oana

I never give you an excuse to not perform.

 

Ioana 

Exactly. And that’s why I come up with this example because generally, I know how my friends react the first time when I tell them how we do because they have this impression, like doing things in a feminine way means leaving the work undone or not finishing the deadline. Exactly. It’s nothing emotional. It’s just doing things in a different way. That’s why I came forward with this example.

 

Oana 

Yeah, it’s a good example. It’s right. Well, I tell you to stop, first of all, and look at the source of your tiredness, because not all the time tiredness comes from physical activity. It can be emotional resistance. It can be a block in creativity. It can be a fear of success or failure. It can even be a shifting vibration in your energy, or it can be a lack of alignment between your physical body, physicality, your mental body, and your emotional body. So it’s just to stop and reflect on what’s really going on. And tuning in, as I was saying earlier. So I ask you to tune in and take your time to acknowledge your present current situation, still keeping the intention, but giving space for whatever is happening at the moment, because, at the moment, you’ll be connected to your rhythm, to your flow, and to the actual process of creation you are undergoing. Yeah. We think of achieving a deadline as a set of activities we do, but all the time if we’re feminine, we’re giving birth. It’s not just what we do on a superficial level, what people see us do. We’re giving birth because the feminine is all about birth.

 

Oana 

So whenever you have a deadline, you’re like carrying a baby in the midst of labor, and you’re going through the motions of the labor. And sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s tiring, sometimes it’s emotional, sometimes it’s anxiety. It’s everything. And actually being feminine means allowing the whole spectrum of emotions and sensations to flow through you. And whenever we hit that tiredness, we hit a rigid, tense part of ourselves, whether it’s our body, our emotional component, or our spiritual component. So it just stops and reflects and then addresses it. Because overriding it. Yes. You may think that if you override it and you put yourself in adrenaline mode it will get you there. Sometimes it does, and sometimes you need to do it. But most of the time we do it because we don’t know any other way of doing, of creating, of manifesting. And by slowing down and tuning in, something opens up. And what opens up is a more profound, more in-depth, more grounded way of looking at the whole situation and coping with your vital energy. It’s like you’re resetting your computer and you’re starting fresh, and then you have a different quality of energy to perform until your deadline.

 

Oana 

So this is something I do also. I’m giving you that, but it’s an inner practice that I work with because I’m also a freak deadliner kind of a woman.

 

Ioana

We know that. But the best part of this is I know at the beginning, from very personal experience, I know it can sound abstract. I mean, what does he say? But simply taking three minutes and breathing. And I’m very skeptical and very resistant, but really worse, even if you are not present in what I’m really doing right now. You don’t know when you are doing it for the first time. It feels like you don’t understand, but you don’t have to understand. And I can come up with a very personal sharing example that really works. Just taking three minutes and breathing and looking at the emotion of the deadline. Just a shifting perspective. It’s really changing everything. And I think we can extend the example not only by looking at the workflow or the professional life. Another example of how the feminine tunes you in with your body and can change everything in your life also comes from a personal question. When you met me, when we met, I was doing a lot of sports, running and going to the gym, the classical stuff. But after two years of working together and doing half of the practices, you’re teaching because I never do them full-on.

 

Ioana 

I noticed I don’t enjoy doing the same thing anymore because I feel like instead of feeling refreshed after running 7 km, I feel more tired and I’m not happy with that. And at the beginning, I didn’t understand what was going on because I was not out of shape. It’s like something changed. I think we can include this shift in the conversation because it’s very hands-on and probably many women don’t go to the gym and feel guilty about not having fun.

 

Oana 

Yeah, because tuning into the feminine energy requires a slower connection with your body. And when you operate on cardio or hard work, you operate eventually on adrenaline. And that’s a very masculine way of being and feeling your body. Because it’s all about high intensity, but with no ground. And the grounding part is very important, especially for us women. I think it’s important for all people, including men. But for us women, it is essential. So we get more out of grounding ourselves in the Earth, slowing down, tuning in, and becoming like a pillar of power rather than being in motion. Because the feminine principle is receiving it, not actionable. The masculine is actionable. The masculine is in motion, in action, focusing on a result, and achieving that result. That’s the way of being masculine. The feminine is tuning in, harboring an intention, loving and nurturing it, giving it birth through the slow connection and the tuning in. It’s a different pattern. And the feminine will always be connected to the process moment by moment. Her access to achieving the result versus the masculine just goes for the result no matter what. And I think this is a very subtle but important difference.

 

Oana 

And why you should do that because you should embrace or include feminine in your life is because you get burned out by just being masculine. And it’s a fact. Maybe you’re at the beginning stage of performing in your life or in a specific set of projects, but if you’re a long runner and you’re doing it for many years and you’re a high achiever, and you want to stay on top. You know, fatigue and, you know, burnout. They’re part of the game. They’re part of the game anyway because that’s our culture. But how do we cope with it? And we cope with it without fear, beyond fear, tuning into what we also need. That is not about performing.

 

Ioana 

It was my next question. How do we get over feeling guilty? Because in the beginning, the first feeling is like you’re feeling guilty because you’re not pushing enough. You’re just slowing down and even taking a step back. How can we overcome the fear of slowing down?

 

Oana 

I don’t think you can. I think you just have to risk it. I don’t think it comes naturally, and I don’t think any mental inspirational code will help you with that. I think you just have to trust that you’re setting up an intention for yourself to perform and changing the definition of performance by achieving the result and feeling grounded and wealthy. In a way, yes, healthy at the end of the day, because if you’re born out, you’re not going to have any joy out of it. You can’t, you don’t have the energy for it, even for joy. You have to have energy. At the end of the objective, you’re running out of energy. You’re done, and you do not have the inspiration to move forward. And that’s the whole process of burnout, depression, and then anxiety, and it keeps you in a role. So we have to change. I think it’s time for us to change and admit that this very driven, adrenaline fatigue kind of movement and definition of performance is running out of its success and that we also want to feel happy, balanced, and at peace, while we’re having success. And I think we can have both of them, but we can’t have both of them unless we acknowledge both of them as relevant.

 

Oana 

It has to come through a shift in awareness and a shift in values.

 

Ioana 

I think it will be helpful if we bring into the conversation some of the values of the feminine because you always say that the feminine creates the feminine and embracing the feminine is compassionate. How can bringing more awareness to these values in our life can actually change the dynamics we have with ourselves and with the people around us? Yeah.

 

Oana 

I’m going to move from a mental answer to a very specific sharing of how I anchored or grounded myself in the feminine values because I think this question is very important for women, because women will be the advocates of the feminine values and how we perceive society. The feminine values are still very abstract, and it’s still very not grounded. And women will be the catalyst, the facilitators, and the pillars of bridging, from abstract to real life. For me at the beginning, in accessing the feminine energy and the feminine universe and its paradigm, it had to do with Charlotte asking so much about the practice because I couldn’t trust the feminine. I didn’t trust being soft. I didn’t know if being soft will get me at the end of the day to the results I wanted. And I really feared if I let go of the controlled masculine, very high achieving, fierce fire, that I would lose the results and I would not become even feminine. So I’ll fail in everything. So I had to take the time during the day when I started it, I was really insane. I was doing it for 4 hours or really relaxing, like understanding the concept of being relaxed, but not on a physical level.

 

Oana

I go to our massage, but really feeling every time there is tension in my body or anxiety or anger, I would just slow down, breathe, and take the time to really integrate and look at the source of that emotion or sensation. And in the feminine practices, we do a lot of bodywork, like tuning into our body, waking up in the morning, and caressing our body from head to toe because our body needs caress. It doesn’t need a sexual encounter. It needs a nurturing encounter. And you’re the first and foremost important person to give that to your body every day. It needs during a week, two, three moments, whether in the morning or lunch or evening, where you just let go of everything and quiet your mind and really tune in in your emotional body, whether it’s through candles and bathtubs and soft music, or whether it’s just playing in nature and going in nature, or whether it’s creativity, whatever, painting, dancing, just letting go of thinking and trying to manage everything or just sitting in darkness, it’s very feminine. And when you really feel you want to take a break or a day off, you do it, which is insane in our culture, but it really works because it will give you a different rhythm of looking at it.

 

Oana 

And one of the things that I’ve learned through the practice, I wasn’t aware of it on a mental level. I learned it through practice the moment I slow down, take the break, and take a day off, although it’s insane, and I really stay with the fatigue where the slowing down, that energy passes off. And when it passes off, I feel spring in my body. And the immediate moment is to create something. I don’t have to push myself into creation. It happens automatically. And that’s one of the things that women will understand once they do the practice. They will feel that in their body, and then they will trust that the feminine can empower their performance. You move, you are an inner being that’s alive. You will go through faces of creation, and one of the faces is slowing down and tuning in, but it’s just the face. You won’t end up there. And it’s different from being lazy. It’s very different from being lazy. Or sick, because you’re doing that with awareness. You’re doing that including nurturing the body, your emotions, and your soft side. And when that gets loved, then it will empower the strong side to kick in.

 

Ioana 

So when you say just stay in darkness, do you really mean staying in darkness? Yeah.

 

Oana

One of the practices I was doing because I was having so many workshops with hundreds of women, and it was a lot of energy, and we would bring up a lot of energy because when women meet together, it’s like a nuclear bomb in the house. And we were in the sacred space of it. And I was so high, but high, not from adrenaline, high from energy. And it was so hard for me to just decouple myself from that energy. And I would come home and just lay on the floor in the center of my living room in complete darkness and allow my body to fully melt into the floor until I was deleting. It was like the deletion of all emotions, all sensations, all energy. And then I would just clear my body out of the adrenaline and really tune into what I needed, how I felt about the event, what really triggered me, and what did I create on a very deep level? What do I need to say to myself to be complete so I can end this cycle of creation and move to sleep and then come back the next day with a different awareness?

 

Oana 

And it was really helpful.

 

Ioana 

I think this is a question. In fact, can this be an answer to Charlotte’s question, what do you do before bed? Because it sounds relevant. We all have emotional baggage after a day at work or a day with our friend, even if our friends can put us in a lot of luggage, emotional baggage. And just before going to bed, staying lying in darkness, aware of what you’re doing for half an hour or whatever, even ten minutes maybe, can actually help you sleep better and rest better during the night.

 

Oana 

Totally. And it will also align your inner universe’s inner process with whatever’s going on outside. And you may be aware that you have an inner process, or you may not be, especially if you are a mental person who has lived all her life in a very mentally controlled environment. But we all have an inner process and an inner universe, especially as women. And that inner universe is governed by our unconscious, by our emotions, by our subtle energies. And when you bring rest and attention and sit with that part of yourself before you go to bed, you transition into the realm of the unconscious. And that transition is allowing you to become fluent. And it’s also bridging that two days and night because they’re all governing energies day and night. The night is as important. We work a lot in our sleep, whether we are aware of it or not. And the moment we bridge that with awareness, through a simple practice of just tuning in with your day and your emotions and what you want to say to yourself. And I would also end by acknowledging that I just lived through another day. Gratitude is extremely important and loving yourself and embracing yourself, no one else will do it.

 

Oana 

And if you really do it, that’s one of the things that the surprises of the feminine for me are I really felt for at the beginning of my practice, and it was quite a long time. I really felt the need to be free and not in a stable relationship. So I was dating, but I wasn’t committing to anything. And when I started the practices, I was doing it like a single woman. And I really was thinking, oh, my God, like meeting a man for real and committing to that whole thing and what my lifestyle will look like because I kind of integrated the feminine practices and haven’t met the feminine real, grounded men. I have met emotional men who think they’re feminine but are not really somebody who understands the feminine. And I was like, okay, so how would that look in a couple? I was shocked, and it wasn’t me. It was the energy. I was cultivating it in the first table relationship I was surrendering to, forced, of course, by the universe beyond my mind. One night, my partner said, I think you need time with yourself, and I’ll prepare a bath for you.

 

Oana

I was in shock. I really didn’t know how to react to that. It’s like I feel like you need to be with yourself. So I’m going to go prepare a bath, and I’ll leave you to your own energy, and you let me know if you need me anymore. And I was like, oh, my God. And he was so in tune with me and really wanted to be with me. It was my committed partnership that he was following the subtle energy of my body, and he was tuning into that and respecting that. And I ended up in a bath with fruits and champagne and candles and soft music. And he said, okay, your best. And now I am prepared. I’ll leave you to yourself. And he walked away, and I was like, oh, my God. And, oh, my God, I wanted that. But I was too afraid to say it because I was afraid to give myself permission to say, hey, in this relationship, I want time for myself. And it’s not that I don’t like you or I don’t love you. It’s just I want to be with myself. And second of all, the way he put himself in service and really tapped into that emotional need and physical need of my body, and it was like, oh, my God, this is actually working.

 

Ioana 

The dynamic change.

 

Oana 

The dynamics change. Yeah.

 

Ioana

I remember now that you came up with the example of the bus stop, a Darling friend of ours who attends your workshop shared one evening that her husband was on a business trip or something, and she knew he was coming back home in the evening, and she wanted to really surprise him with a very romantic set up dinner, bathtub, roses, the whole feminine Shabbat. And of course, he came and he was extremely tired and he wasn’t at all in the mood for doing her game. And she confessed, which she was so offended by because she said at the beginning I was so mad because I put so much effort into surprising him. But then I remembered what you always tell us, and I said, but why do I have to wait for him? Just do her stuff. And I just went and sat alone and enjoyed the bus. And it was even better. But she was so authentic and she was like she had a great AHA, it looks like this.

 

Oana 

It does because men don’t necessarily connect this way with themselves or with the relationship or with the woman. That’s our need for connection. And if we can actually understand that difference, then we can give it to ourselves whenever we feel the need, and then he can offer it from time to time as a way of respecting and feeling and tuning in, which is even much more acknowledging.

 

Ioana 

Yeah. Because there’s a distinction she made, she personally made. I realized that it was me. It was my need. It wasn’t my need to bond with him. It was the need to bond with myself. But that’s how I was used to doing things. But another question. Speaking about this, I’m sure that a lot of women who are listening to us are doing things for themselves. They take time to get a massage. They take care of themselves. What do we have to add? What’s the add-on of the feminine that we can insert in what we are already doing to take care of ourselves, to just move to the next level of self-care in the feminine way?

 

Oana 

Understands that we’re more than a body and that our body is energy and we need to tune in with the energy of our body and honor the process and the rhythm of the body because sometimes the body is tired and we disregard that. Sometimes the body is hot, fiery, and full of passion, and we disregard that. Sometimes the body just wants to breathe. It wants nature, and we disregard that. And we associate most of the time this need with a man in our life who needs to give this that or with the fact that we can’t just go on a brain because we’re too tired or we have a deadline. So we always find an excuse. But the excuse comes because we’re not in tune with the energy of our body and we don’t see it as a feminine practice that is about taking care of ourselves. It’s about self-care. So if we disconnect whatever we have or don’t have in our life. And we disconnect the pressure of achieving something, and we just really tune into the energy of our body, then we will tap into what I call the inner rhythm. And Mother Nature is a very good teacher of the inner rhythm through her seasons and her day and night cycles and everything.

 

Oana

Like if you’re just going nature, but tune in with the energy of Mother Nature, you will see there’s a lot of rhythms, there’s a lot of vibing, there’s a lot of movement. And it’s always in the cycle. It’s always in a spiral. And our body works the same way because it is made of the energy of the Earth. So when we tap into our inner rhythm through Mother Nature or just tune in, we are allowing ourselves to surrender to our feminine energy. And then the feminine energy becomes a guide. It literally becomes a guide. It talks to you through your intuition, through your emotions, through your sensations. And if you tune in to them and listen to them and acknowledge them and do something about it, then that’s just taking care of yourself on all levels, spiritual, energetic, emotional, and physical. And it will refresh your imagination. It will give you inspiration, and it will give you vital energy that will make you perform sometimes triple than you’ve done so far.

 

Ioana 

You know when I realized that feminine energy is real talk when I was having a conversation with my acupuncture therapist, and I don’t remember exactly the context of the conversation, but he came up with this sentence. I understood after 30 years of practice that if women were to be for only one day in the body of a man to realize the level of blockage we have between our brain and our womb, they could not do it over, they would die. I mean, I realized by talking with so many women over my 30 years of practice that the connection is so strong between the body and the mind that you cannot treat one without looking at the other, which is not that strong. The connection is not that strong in man or is different. It’s no connection, but it’s a totally different connection. So Madison starts to acknowledge the feminine energy. So it’s real talk. It’s not just a lifestyle. It’s more than lifestyle. So do you think you have some more precise answers to a lot of questions? Because I think because she’s very Darling to us, let’s give her some specific practices she can start with until she integrates more the feminine energy.

 

Oana 

Yes. A very specific practice would be just to take five to ten minutes every morning or during the day, especially in the evening, to just tune in to your body and ask your body, how do you feel? Or how do I feel and listen? And nothing may come at the beginning, but then your intuition will sharpen just for this practice, and you will understand and whatever the body says, correct it, touch it. Touch it with gentleness and hug yourself. Like literally hug yourself every day and use your senses throughout the day. Small things, like really drinking a coffee and deeply enjoying it. Or touching different textures. A tree, a bench, something silky and really connected to the perception of that touch or smell or taste of something. But take the time to be aware of it, like a celebration of that sense. It’s a very small thing, but in time it can become a very deep practice. That’s one thing. So take your time. Keep a Journal of your emotions. And when you feel like crying, cry and give yourself permission to laugh. If you will tune into your emotions during the day as a natural way of living life, you will cry and laugh more, which is very healthy.

 

Oana 

And I totally recommend it.

 

Ioana 

Also, enjoy crying. Yes.

 

Oana 

Even if you’re completely sad and totally disappointed, just go in there and be fully disappointed. Like, live with the totality of all that life brings to you and start enjoying and appreciating life. You know, we try to collapse things. Oh, I can’t be happy unless I have that. No, you can be happy and you will have what you will have. And tomorrow it will be better. Like, uncollapse your emotional way of living life to what you have. That’s one thing. Do a feminine practice, where here we have a lot of free content. Whatever triggers your inspiration, you start doing it. Go barefooted in nature, hug a tree, and breathe with your warmth. Just totally put your hands on the belly and breathe. Breathe for five minutes every day with your warmth. Something will shift eventually. That’s a very junior stepping into the feminine lifestyle. A more advanced way of living feminine is acknowledging the values and the principles. So allow in your relationships in your lifetime and attention and respect for humanity, for your emotional side, for taking care of yourself and taking care of others on an emotional, spiritual level. Also, includes paradoxes like understanding that life is bigger and the feminine also brings darkness as a value.

 

Oana 

It doesn’t look only at the pink, fluffy side. It wants the dark, the blood, the pain. She’s not afraid of the pain. She would capitalize. So being a true, powerful, grounded woman, that requires you to step into the pain. That’s a very advanced practice because it can stretch in many areas, on many levels of your spiritual journey. And bringing compassion requires you to hug yourself inside the pain. But having that fierceness of holding the truth, speaking the truth, bending your life to the truth. That’s really advanced family practice.

 

Ioana 

It’s advanced. And it doesn’t come easy when you do it for the first time. But if you keep on doing it over and over again, it becomes a habit and it changes everything. The relationship you have with yourself and with the people around you. It’s like turning 100 radical. Yes.

 

Oana 

And one of the things I want to tell all women in the world is you’re not alone. We’re here. The sacred circle is now activated and it has been for a while you don’t have to step into that alone and you don’t have to feel alone and you don’t deserve to be alone. And whether people in your life are there for you or not, you have your sisters. So give yourself and grant yourself the permission to step into the circle at whatever level that works for you so that you can receive, not just give and balance that receiving and giving because that’s also part of the feminine.

 

Ioana 

Thank you. I think we can wrap this up because some very strong subjects are popping up, but I think this can make other episodes for the feminine podcast.

 

Oana 

Totally. I hope I answered Charlotte’s question. Thank you. And tuning into our podcast, please give us questions and challenging stories of your amazing journey as a woman throughout life. We’re really wanting to voice women’s power into the world and we can be an Avenue for that. So join us on our next episode.