In a rare moment of vulnerability she of the lost wisdom, buried for years in the detritus of ambition and distraction, confronted me with my own inner fragmentation. She demanded to know why it was necessary to surrender parts of myself in order to be successful. This is the story of a journey of awakening. Simply by listening to my inner soundings, and to the many inspiring women whom I have met over the past few years, I have learned what it means to genuinely honor the Self. Today I live a life not as the culture would have me live it, but as I understand its under-lying purposes from within.
Success is a manifold and changing thing.
When women embrace their own ways of seeing and attempting to influence the realities around them, their norms of what is sacred, and their seasons, they create lives that are varied, abundant, fruitful, and, at day's end, rich in wisdom and peace. In honoring what makes us women, we transform the world around us. Whether absorbed in a career as I have been, or at home with children, or attempting some more individual balance between achievement, relationship, and service, every woman has the deep reserves within her to create such a life. To begin, she needs only to listen.