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Tip #2: Notice What Turns You On
Notice What Turns You On
Tip #2 of 8 Tips for Building an Innovative Business and Life
Reading the book, “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” written by the Boston Women’s Health Collective, was the first time I can remember hearing the voices of women talking about their bodies. One evening, I sat in a woman’s circle where every woman was handed a plastic speculum, a mirror, a flashlight and lubrication. We were taught how to do a self-exam of our breasts and our genitals. All of the women took off their pants and underwear, lay down on blankets and pillows and prepared to follow the step-by-step instructions to touch and examine our own bodies. I remember the exclamations of awe and joy and tears when a woman saw her cervix, in a hand-held mirror, for the first time. Women empowering women in a circle gathering. That was 1978 and I was 22 years old.
Looking back at this 40 years later, I can see that that moment of women’s empowerment ignited something in me. I saw a new possibility for women to own their power and pick up a “baton” of leadership in their lives. Empowering each other with dominion over our bodies. This was an early experience in my young adult life that “turned me on.” It lit me up from the inside out and showed me my passion and purpose in this lifetime. This has been a recurring theme woven into every fiber of my life: embodied…
