I definitely can relate to all of this. I think in myself love/ womanhood journey I decided that I was never going to sacrifice my girlhood for my womanhood. That I was always going to keep & live in the best parts of my girlhood … the curiosity, the creativity, the joy… to fuel my womanhood. It took the pressure off for me. As always thanks for sharing Dom, beautiful post- 💖
I’m with you on life moving way too fast. It’s starting to feel like a cycle of being burnt out. I loved this newsletter episode and the talk about womanhood.
Even people who feel like they have it together don’t. We all tryna figure this shit out one day at a time. It doesn’t matter how much we have it together.
If I take the time to really think about it, I think I started feeling like a woman the day I swapped out my Barbies for my first laptop. This also aligns with when my body started developing and I started to get noticed by boys, sometime in middle school. Then around the time I moved states and started high school, I was really into the "rushing to grow up and get out of the house phase" because of my relationship with my mother. All of the stereotypes surrounding first born Hispanic women is true - I was always under scrutiny, the expectations to my career were set in place, and I was expected to parent my younger sibling, who had much more freedom with his childhood. So I feel like I didn't get to experience girlhood that much, while also not understanding womanhood until probably college, even while I was in it.
I believe now I'm at a point where I'm so far into my womanhood that I couldn't go back to girlhood if I wanted to. Married, mortgage, dog mom, unemployed entrepreneur, and not much of a social circle which is a direct opposite of my girlhood. Now my journey is fueled by my desire to live a free and fun-filled womanhood because of the lack of girlhood I had.
I definitely can relate to all of this. I think in myself love/ womanhood journey I decided that I was never going to sacrifice my girlhood for my womanhood. That I was always going to keep & live in the best parts of my girlhood … the curiosity, the creativity, the joy… to fuel my womanhood. It took the pressure off for me. As always thanks for sharing Dom, beautiful post- 💖
"The best parts of my girlhood fueled my womanhood" is a beautiful reflection. Thank you so much for reading love.
I’m with you on life moving way too fast. It’s starting to feel like a cycle of being burnt out. I loved this newsletter episode and the talk about womanhood.
Even people who feel like they have it together don’t. We all tryna figure this shit out one day at a time. It doesn’t matter how much we have it together.
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Thank you so much for reading, my love! And yeah, I've been in perpetual burn out for the past three years or so. One day at a time sis!
Another gem Dom, no surprise here.
If I take the time to really think about it, I think I started feeling like a woman the day I swapped out my Barbies for my first laptop. This also aligns with when my body started developing and I started to get noticed by boys, sometime in middle school. Then around the time I moved states and started high school, I was really into the "rushing to grow up and get out of the house phase" because of my relationship with my mother. All of the stereotypes surrounding first born Hispanic women is true - I was always under scrutiny, the expectations to my career were set in place, and I was expected to parent my younger sibling, who had much more freedom with his childhood. So I feel like I didn't get to experience girlhood that much, while also not understanding womanhood until probably college, even while I was in it.
I believe now I'm at a point where I'm so far into my womanhood that I couldn't go back to girlhood if I wanted to. Married, mortgage, dog mom, unemployed entrepreneur, and not much of a social circle which is a direct opposite of my girlhood. Now my journey is fueled by my desire to live a free and fun-filled womanhood because of the lack of girlhood I had.