Empowered Women Empower Women

For a long time, I worked very hard at trying to please the girls around me. In order to gain their friendship, their approval, their love. Instead, I spent a lot of my formative years in a culture that was seemingly safe, but surrounded by resistance. I was pushed down, trampled on and dragged through the mud by those same girls I tried to love. For a long time (with the exception of a couple constants in my life.) I was under the impression that female friendships were fake or fleeting.

It was only after I removed myself from the constant cycle of criticism and condemnation that I realized EMPOWERED WOMEN EMPOWER WOMEN.

Thankfully, though I may have come out a bit battered and bruised emotionally; I have ventured into a reality full of bright and beautiful women. Women ready and willing to freely give me the friendships and love I craved for so long. The types of friendships I stopped believing could exist. My tribe is beautiful, strong, courageous, hilarious and so diverse. And they make those tough younger years all worth it.

To the wonderful women in my life-- my mother, my family, my friends:

You are wisdom. You are strength. You are joy. You are the arms that lift this world up. You are amazing women.

Happy International Women's Day to my heroes!