When women don’t speak, we suffer. Research shows that 80% of women are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases when we suppress our rage and silence ourselves. In this episode, Adeline and Linda reflect on the stories they’ve inherited about womanhood, and how often they are unlearning and (learning) what women endure. Being a woman is complicated, beautiful, filled with pain, joy, community, longing, and so much trauma. May this life and this reflection offer them the capacity and community to sit in the middle, next to other women, and on the shoulders of all the women that came before them. Sharing our lived experience with one another is what makes healing possible. They walked away from the conversation with one ask for their listeners: read the stories of other women. Archive your own. We go through so much that sometimes it feels like being a woman is terrible. We are women who have survived insurmountable trauma, but in silence we suffer more. Not sharing our experience makes someone’s hell feel new, but we know it’s not. Sharing our troubles with women makes that trouble not trouble anymore. We have the difficult experience of living on this earth longer, and we live longer because we talk to each other. The most beautiful part of womanhood is our ability to build expansive communities, with range and a deep well of knowledge. To be a woman is to be held by other women. So, archive the hard days, archive the easy days. Mantra: Sisterhood is medicine. For Your Consideration: In what ways has guarding yourself protected you and when has it hurt you? Does it still protect you?

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