03/06/2026
Iโve been paying close attention to women lately.
I sit with women every week. Women navigating heartbreak, illness, divorce, financial pressure, grief, motherhood, ageing parents, career changes, study, business, and the courage it takes to begin again.
What strikes me most is how many speak as though they are somehow falling short.
Yet when I look around, I donโt see women who are behind.
I see women carrying loads that would once have belonged to an entire village.
Many are working, parenting, caring for loved ones, managing households, maintaining relationships, staying financially afloat, looking after their health, trying to stay fit, youthful, attractive, emotionally available, and somehow keeping up with the endless messages about who they should be.
At the same time, they are moving through the great initiations of the female body itself. Menstruation. Fertility. Pregnancy. Birth. Motherhood. Perimenopause. Menopause. The many seasons of becoming a woman.
What astonishes me is how much has changed in such a short time.
Within a single generation, women stepped into universities, professions, leadership, business ownership, financial independence, and public life in ways many of our grandmothers never had the opportunity to.
The opportunities expanded, but much of the responsibility remained.
And still, so many women wonder if they are enough.
From where Iโm sitting, women are doing something quite extraordinary.
I think we just donโt stop often enough to see it.
