We’ve Come A Long Way Baby!
Yesterday’s posting, “The Good Wife Guide” has been creating quite a stir among women. It reminded me how many boomer belles were handed their blueprints for life and the roles they were supposed to fulfill.
A few months back, I interviewed a number of southern boomer belles and asked the following questions:
How would you define a southern woman and do you consider yourself one?
Did the “southern belle” label keep you small and if so how?
Has the “southern belle” label expanded your power and if so how?
What guidance would you share with young southern women of today?
Here are a few of the answers to the question, how would you define a southern woman?
She is prissy, graceful, charming and always has to have it together.
She thinks she has a standard to live up to.
She has a powerful soul screaming to get out.
She has inner core strength beyond belief.
She is more global than her roots.
She is an outspoken woman who will speak her mind in a NY minute.
She never understood the rules.
She is well mannered, warm and has skeletons in the closet.
She can smile to your face and cut you behind your back.
She has an innate desire to nourish and care for others.
She is strong, has character and wants to make a difference.
She creates and supports her sisterhood.
She is the queen of rebel belles.
She can stand on her own two feet and take care of herself.
She can step into any role, walk into any situation and adapt.
She is playful and likes to have fun.
Is this defining southern woman or could these be descriptions of all women? I’d love your thoughts!
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September 21st, 2006 at 5:50 am
Now, now Tuck, my belle friend. I would have to say that us Yankee girls can also relate to what you’re talking about! I believe it’s a universal challenge to have your blueprints handed down to you by others.
The great thing is that now there are ways to energetically alter that blueprint forever so that you’re not stuck with the old patterns and ways of the past. I have personally found that subconscious reprogramming techniques are the way to go with changing your tune. Believe it, my Belle friend, and best of all, it can be done in minutes flat!
As a Weight Loss Coach for women, I’m all in favor of gals taking their little ditty tune and turning it into a big brass band with trombones and horns aplenty. Who the hell says that we can’t toot our own horns! Yes we can! Expression is so good for the soul!
If you’re looking for a way to rewrite your history, sing your song or alter those blueprints, you must run don’t walk to this free site at http://www.emofree.com EFT is based on the 500 year old Science of Acupuncture and it works like magic. On this site you can download a free 79 page manual, learn more about the process and see how others apply it to working with their clients and in their personal lives.
This is hands down my favorite method for getting down to business and digging up the music in my client’s souls. Every person has a song to sing. This simple process helps to connect you with a deeper part of your spirit. By offering you a tool that literally puts the control back in your hands, you have a powerful means to connect with that rebel belle deep down inside.
EFT gives you emotional freedom on any, and I repeat any issue in your life that causes you pain, suffering, fear or anxiety. It’s transformed my life and has done for me what 18 years of therapy failed to do. It neutralized my feelings about several traumatic events from my past.
Speaking as a woman who suffered abuse throughout my childhood, many people did things to me to try to silence me and quiet my song. I’ll admit the fears around that kept me silent for a long time. I mean I was feeling sorry for myself for over 35 years, couldn’t move in life, was afraid of everyone and everything, paralyzed by my fears and paranoias. I thought my only answer was to stifle the screams I felt by stuffing food down my throat.
Then some angel came into my life about 4 years ago and showed me how to use this process and it’s altered the course of my life. You’ve got to try it. It’ll rock your world! You’ll absolutely flip when you see what it does to zap food cravings in minutes! Don’t believe me. As my Nana used to say, “The proof is in the pudding.” Have a taste and let me know how you like it.
Much love from one Rebel gal to another,
Andrea