When Women Rise - Everyday practices to strengthen your mind, body, and soul Quotes

“Imagine all these women coming together in an unwavering spirit of compassion and strength. Envision challenging the cultural story we’re told about who women are supposed to be, and instead forging a path of radical authenticity, self-realization, and self-care.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise - Everyday practices to strengthen your mind, body, and soul

“When one heals, the cultural needle moves a little farther and eventually our collective consciousness changes for the better.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise - Everyday practices to strengthen your mind, body, and soul

“In Western society, women try to adapt, strengthen, and build resilience to cope, only to be pushed back into an inequitable cultural ecosystem that has us breathing fear. ... In truth, many women tell me they crave a wiser, more balanced way. Society’s win-at-all-cost culture of competition has hurt them dearly. Their stressed-out bodies are telling them no more, not one more day of this unsustainable pressure. They are no longer willing to be judged by the standards of healthism—which believes that those who work out regularly, stay slim, and eat right are more worthy—or to see it as the answer to the much bigger social and political problem of chronic stress.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise - Everyday practices to strengthen your mind, body, and soul

“Hands down the biggest barrier to starting a regular practice is our own resistance to coming face-to-face with our mind. We doubt ourselves, worry that we somehow can’t meditate, tell ourselves that we just don’t have the time. I can honestly say, as long as you’re breathing, you do have enough time, you can sit still, and meditation isn’t just for yogis.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise - Everyday practices to strengthen your mind, body, and soul