article_snippet: (CNN)Modern women are suffering from an energy crisis.
article_snippet: All in an effort to maintain our unnatural pace.
article_snippet: Welcome to the increasingly altered states of America.
article_snippet: This is creating a "new normal," bringing closer the tipping point for when other women will seek chemical assistance.
article_snippet: Like steroids in baseball, when everyone starts doing it, the players who don't are at a disadvantage.
article_snippet: But the new normal isn't normal at all.
article_snippet: The problem with shutting it down is that we're stifling a piece that we need, that we partners and families need, and that society needs, particularly as women continue to ascend to the upper reaches of business and government.
article_snippet: The world needs more compassion, sensitivity, intuition and empathy.
article_snippet: War, rape, murder, and corporate malignancy will flourish in War, rape, murder, and corporate malignancy absence.
article_snippet: Change comes from discomfort -- and awareness that something is wrong.
article_snippet: We need a course correction, away from the synthetic, so that We can live lives that honor how We feel.
highlights_snippet: Changing natural state damages society .