Women Are Crazy

By Emily Bishop
Jan 18, 2018
3 min read

Women are crazy, emotional, irrational, unstable thinkers, and can very easily be persuaded. Right? Well, at least that is what society has, at one time or another, shown others to believe. You know, I will say there is a very interesting trend happening all around us right now, that especially my ladies, if you open your eyes to it, you will immediately notice it. The trend of self-empowerment. I would say it is on it's ultimate high now more so after the first of the year. It has been very steadily climbing, even before Oprah's speech, but the lid has been blown all the way off after all of that. Women, reaching out to each other to praise and "you got this girl" on their Instagram posts. At what point does this start the decline? At what point will this "trend" fade? I don't think it will at all in fact, and I'll tell you why.

EMPOWER

verb (used with object)

1.

to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or officialmeans:

2.

to enable or permit:

Wealth empowered him to live a comfortable life.

You're telling me that the steady increase in our awareness of ourselves, the striving of trying to reach our most comfortable, best self that we can, plus the fact that we are literally allowing each other that 'power or authority' when we encourage one another, is going to just fade into the background? Not at all. This life now produces women who are looked up to more and more, yet a lot of us are still over worked, over committed, highly exhausted people. We are moms and friends, wives and girlfriends, daughters and employees, employers and ....I mean this list could go on and on. And therein lies my point, we are made up of many parts, all moving at once, holding on to a center, and in order to nurture and care for that center we must dig roots down deep into something, that is the empowerment and encouragement with the self-empowerment movement.

How do we then dig those roots deep down? Well, there is no right or wrong answer here. Each woman is unique and can easily find what works for her. What, then, if you don't know where to start? First thing, if you're reading this, I'd say you're on the right track in finding a community of women who will have your back no matter what. I would suggest an evaluation of the relationships directly based around you. Toxic relationships must go! Yes, we've been reading that splattered all over our Seventeen and Elle magazines since we were 12 ladies, and it still stands true to this day! You start to realize that at the end of the day, all the hard work and insanely busy schedules, packed with so many emotions as we are out there in the world, oils down to having a few close people in your life that can literally make all the difference.

I would also highly suggest time. Time set aside in order that you are able to refuel yourself. Be it prayer, meditation, a hike; whatever that looks like for you, take it, try and set that time for you to be able to close out everything else to get back to what you need.

What would make this different from any other self help article, or even the kind of thing that a woman might read and think, "right, easier said than done." That may even be you as you read this even now. To you, or anyone for that matter, you have to start somewhere. Now, take that a step further and get honest with your 'WHY'. Why don't you follow through on things? Why are you so passionate about another thing? Why, why, why? Whatever that answer may be, I hope that you find that your why is not your neighbors or your best friends, it is unique to you and that is so beautiful.

I love my crazy women in my life. I love finding out their why and hopefully helping them along their path as they do for me. I feel empowered most when I am helping others, that is my why. I am also learning to love my body more as a 33 year old woman, and that if I don't concentrate on my family more, time slips away way too fast. All of this to say, the rise of self-empowerment will alway keep climbing. Because a woman in awareness will never never fade away.