Metaphysical Worthiness
“How can we enjoy ourselves if we don’t think we deserves to enjoy ourselves? How happy can we be if we feel as if we have to apologize for the fact that we’re even here? Because of our conditioning, our experience of discrimination and abuse, and the particular way in which products are marketed to us, women often have an even harder time when it comes to remembering our intrinsic worth. Our inner nurturers might be beautifully developed, but that development doesn’t always include the sense that we, too, deserve to be taken care of—that we have a right and a responsibility to take care of ourselves. ‘I think we are intrinsically maternal beings… I think we like caring for and being cared for. Happiness comes when we are balanced in both roles.’ We can only find that balance when we feel equally worthy of each.”
