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•wild woman within the mother •
 journey of the kind girl finding her voice again🤍
for the woman who got lost somewhere along the way
🌱mom to three

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Time before menstruation , the premenstruation, is our wild woman energy time,

it feels like the body needs rest and comfort, loneliness and silence

But our innermost self comes to life with earth-shaking power, with fury, ready to question, to step forward, to hold on to its rights

It brings to the surface everything that you have been avoiding in yourself

It’s called the pms/pmdd time, even we women are afraid of our own destructive power and society is afraid of our ”madness”

But it brings to the surface everything you’ve been avoiding in yourself, all those times when you wanted to say ”no” but instead said ”yes”

The times you were tired but you did it anyway

And it’s not just our own, but the collective suffering, belittling, silence of centuries ago and the repressed suffering, silence when you feel like screaming

It’s a tight corset that wants to suffocate us, but kills us silently

Although in reality it is a huge force that must be harnessed, Not tamed

Paintings and pictures (if you run to an artist not mentioned please send me the credit)

2: Mór Than : Woman With Silk Corset
3: Anja Matko : The Invisible Force
6: Charles Louis Müller : Charlotte Corday in Prison
11: Stephanie Kenyaa Mzee (COMPLY)
12: Ania Tomicka : Phoenix

#pmdd #pms #menstruation #motherhood #womenhood by @she.findsherself

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I feel like so much power is contained when women come together, but we are conditioned to compare our outer characteristics such as beauty, our body shape, and only focus on that so that we didn’t see the power that we hold inside. Because can you imagine how much empowerment would it hold if we were coming together not as threat to each other, but sisters that are walking the same road? Can you imagine how would the world look like if we could hear our inner world the way we see out outer world?

Yes, beauty can be important as long as it is something that matters to you. But if we are only focusing on how we look on each other’s eyes, we will quickly lose the meaning of what we came here to do -and that is exactly how the patriarchy keeps thriving. by @she.findsherself

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If a mother comes to you asking for help, I wish you could see how much it takes from her to do that. 🤍 by @she.findsherself

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she is still inside
the little girl
who learned to carry
the world on her shoulders

and who only had just one wish
that finally one day
she could be the one who’s carried

she is still holding on
to the ones that she had to take care of
before herself

the world may have made her
visibly strong
yet she is still waiting for the day
she could put away
the heavy armour

11/10/26 🤍 I hope that on this girl’s day (and every single day) every girl could feel as if they are carried, held and loved.

#tyttöjenpäivä #internationalgirlsday

@elsalinneaphotography by @she.findsherself

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5 days ago

Today morning I asked myself

When was the last time I felt ”rejuvenated”.

Not depleted, not empty, not overriden.
And what is it to make me feel that way, because some days I do feel that, and every woman deserves to feel that. The things that bring me that feeling are simple.

Like rest.
Deep interrupted sleep.
Movement.
Nature.
Warm hugs.
Connection.
Inspiration.
Beauty around me.
Pleasure.
Nourishing, grounding foods.
Safeness.
Silence.
Books.
Love.

..and to think none of this costs a thing. All of this I am surrounded by most of the time (except sleep haha). So how can I fill my cup even more knowing that it’s most of the times available?

To feel rejuvenated is to also feel connected to the woman in me.

And you should feel your woman in you, too.

When was the last time you experienced it? 🤍

//these pictures are captured by the most amazing @elsalinneaphotography 🤍🫶🏼 by @she.findsherself

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7 days ago

What if you just submerged in the forest, and let it carry away your worries 🌲

#foresting #forest #nature #mothership #womanoftheforest by @she.findsherself

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10 days ago

When do we wake up to see the beauty, to appreciate the beauty of what only a woman’s body can create?

When do we stop treating it as a cheap object thay can be used, recycled and tossed away?

When do we realize that without women there would be no life on this planet?

When do you realize that the very thing you are doing to any woman you are doing to your mother, your sister and your daughter?

Just..when?

#womenhood #janedoe #womanity #creation #sexualassaultawareness by @she.findsherself

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11 days ago

I saw a dream last night, having a few older men coming to me while I was sitting on a mall. I had a skirt on and they would come and touch my legs. I started screaming and shouting in the middle of the mall, making sure everyone could hear and see what was happening.

That’s usually not how it goes. Us women go through shame, we wan’t no one seeing what is happening to us, we stay silent when we are meant to scream. I felt so powerful in that dream having it all coming out.

But how different would the world look like if the men around us were keeping us safe? When we would feel as wherever we go, we are protected, because for every man willing to do harm there would be a man standing up for us, making sure we go unharmed?

So that us women can focus on loving the world whole. by @she.findsherself

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I know it’s painful. And I’m right there with you. 🤍

But can you see how much of beauty it is to have the consciousness of it? That something in you becomes so painful for yourself or the people around you that the only option is change. How much of courage and love does that take from you, to be willing to be better for the ones you love?

That is everything. 🤍 by @she.findsherself

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15 days ago

We often want to feel prepared for becoming a mother, but something a woman cannot prepare for is the depthness of where motherhood will take her.

Becoming a mother is a journey within as a woman. A lot of unbecoming of what you thought you were. It will show you your most authentic self, in a way that will be impossible to unsee. There is so much fear yet also beauty in seeing all that you are - you have the perfect mirror to look into, in all your flaws yet also all your love.

It makes you face your shadows, show you the parts of you that you yet don’t love about yourself. Parts of you didn’t know existed - or wasn’t conscious of before.

It will force you to meet your boundaries, show you in which moments you repeadetly abandon yourself. Motherhood will let you know if you don’t show up for yourself any longer, it will make you scream for it if you don’t listen.

It will also show you the depth of unconditional love. When you think you not being perfect makes you unlovable yet your children keep showing you that it couldn’t be further from the truth. They keep shining their light to your darkest corners. The kind of love that you didn’t know can exist yet it does now. In both ways. 🤍 by @she.findsherself

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17 days ago

As if everything we dive into should be ready just now. As if we weren’t puzzle pieces finding their places. As if feeling, seeing , beginning the path wasn’t worthy, only the finish line. The perfectionist here trying to take her spot again. But this time I won’t let her 💫🦋 by @she.findsherself

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As long as she’ll have her dreams, she will find a way back to herself. As long as she’ll have her visions, she’ll be nourished. Never let anything take that away from you. 🤍💫🪽

#daydreaming #dreams #visions #womanity #forwomen by @she.findsherself

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