Show Notes
Female cruelty often works insidiously enough to make the person on the receiving end of it gaslight the hell out of themselves.
The punishment that’s served up tends to arrive socially or emotionally, often in somewhat polite ways, which is part of what makes it so hard to call out without sounding rude, crazy, or dramatic.
This episode takes a hard look at female shadow as something deeply shaped by girlhood, motherhood, power, fear, beauty, belonging, and the training many women receive in twisting themselves up into pretzels to be more “acceptable.”
Listening requires you to ask what happens when women start telling the truth about the ways we protect, punish, need, compete, perform, and survive. Because a lot of what we collectively call “femininity” is terror management.
Reflections for MOODS or your journal:
What parts of my personality were built around maintaining belonging rather than expressing truth? Where does my care for others become self-erasure, and what am I afraid would happen if I stopped? Show me the feminine aspects of myself that I perform socially versus the ones that feel genuinely alive.
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