<article class="sections" id="sections"><section class="page-section content-collection full-bleed-section collection-type-blog-basic-grid background-width--full-bleed section-height--medium content-width--wide horizontal-alignment--center vertical-alignment--middle light"><div class="content-wrapper"><div class="content"><div class="blog-item-wrapper blog-basic-grid-item-wrapper"><article class="h-entry entry hentry post-type-" id="article-"><div class="blog-item-inner-wrapper"><div class="blog-item-content-wrapper"><div class="blog-item-content e-content"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" id="item-677d85500afe844456622856"><div class="row sqs-row"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12"><div class="sqs-block website-component-block sqs-block-website-component sqs-block-html html-block" id="block-6c7de30bfec6e85a7372"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-text-block-container"><div class="sqs-html-content"><p class="preFade fadeIn">“There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she discards her old ways like tossed shoes in the garbage</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she shreds her list of “should” and obligations</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And when impossible expectations are burned in an incinerator</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When the approval of others once jewels now turn to pennies in her sock</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When the hunt for another is now replaced by a hunt for herself</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And when parental tentacles of tradition no longer define her truth</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When her desire to fit in with the crowd dissolves</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When her manic compulsion to be perfect vaporizes</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And when her obsession to be voted popular eviscerates</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she simply says “no more”</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When façade, artifice, and guile leave her nauseated</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And when righteousness, dogma and superiority repulse her</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she no longer fears conflict but faces it boldly like a lioness</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she guards her authenticity as fearlessly as she guards her babies</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And when she drops the role of savior knowing she can only save herself</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she no longer cowers in the shadows of her unworthiness</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she no longer plays small so others can feel big</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And when she swaps the role of victim for the role of co-creator</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she unabashedly and boldly occupies her ultimate sovereignty</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she feels finally ready to claim her space in the world</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And when she redefines compassion as unequivocal self-love</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">There comes a time in the life of a woman</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she finally releases her child-like dependencies on others</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">When she dares to rewrite a new mandate of living for herself</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">One that says:</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I release unworthiness and fear</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I divorce civility and passivity</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I divest inauthenticity and enmeshment</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I end the pretense of being someone I am not a</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And from now on I declare…</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I will ascend into my highest power</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I will embrace my greatest autonomy</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I will celebrate my deepest worth</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I will embody my fiercest courage</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">And manifest the most authentic me</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">&nbsp;</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">The time is now</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">I am ready</p><p class="preFade fadeIn">To awaken into my renaissance.”</p><p class="preFade fadeIn"></p><article class="sections" id="sections"><section class="page-section content-collection full-bleed-section collection-type-blog-basic-grid background-width--full-bleed section-height--medium 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