Title: What Being Feminine Really Means | Cynthia Occelli
Headings: What Being Feminine Really Means
What Being Feminine Really Means
What is femininity, feminine energy, feminine power, and feminine essence (collectively “the feminine”)?
How is feminine energy different from masculine energy and is one better than the other?
What do I mean when I say the feminist movement went awry?
What are the consequences of repressing femininity?
So what does it mean to be feminine?
~ Cynthia

Content: We gained in rights and opportunities and abandoned femininity. In my view, any feminist movement must celebrate and include the feminine. What are the consequences of repressing femininity? Our feminine essence does not cease to exist when repressed. On the contrary, it becomes part of our shadow selves festering and feeding on its own distress. At some point, it becomes too powerful to contain and invariably wreaks havoc on women’s lives. Its manifestations are many, depression, over-spending, increased alcohol and drug use, obesity, and a litany of other symptoms. The greatest breakthrough usually occurs when a woman realizes that the feminist nirvana she was taught to want isn’t what she thought it would be. She’s over-worked, over-scheduled and all things to all people, except herself. Her needs for creativity, nature, a nurturing sisterhood, beauty, un-productivity, spiritual connection, and unconditional love have gone unmet for decades and she’s suffered deeply.