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Top Three Wise Women

Our Matriarchs Deserve Our Attention

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For thousands of years now, humans have been laboring under patriarchy.

Elizabeth Warren just dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race, despite the fact that pundits believe and have written that she had the most comprehensive and detailed plan for the country. Women and men alike just don’t believe women have leadership skills.

And yet, we are the parents. And grandparents.

When one grows up in a patriarchy, our experiences and our lives are shaped WITHIN the framework of that.

If we experience that the patriarchy operates in this linear, cold, stoic, industrial, production/achievement informed pattern that is the construct of the world, then our brains must deal with that pattern.

Do we accept it as the reality — the truth — or do we question it? And what are the resources within us that give us permission to question it? Does the ability to question come in our blood and bones package at birth? Or does it get beat out of us?

Have you ever met a child that doesn’t ask why?

I had a coach ask me today what makes me feel passionate. And I recognized that I shy away from that which leads me too far into the land of emotion. It is risky and it is dangerous. That is what has been taught to women who live or must work primarily under a patriarchy. It is also taught to men.
['Susan Brearley']
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