I Chose to live away from Mainstream society. My life flows very well, away from all the bombardment of advertising and opinions of how we should live our lives. I want no place in this man made stream of manipulation, I like to choose how I spend my time and live my life. But sometimes curiosity gets the better of me. Especially now I am back In Ireland, I have picked up the odd paper and magazine, wondering what is being discussed, what way this world thinks.

One article in a magazine grabbed my attention, it was talking about how women deal with life when they are experiencing their moon cycle, or period as it was labelled in this magazine. This female writer began by saying how the beginning of her cycle feels like a nuclear bomb is going off inside of her. And from there it only got worst, as obviously women's periods are such a huge negative pain in the backside. Well as you can imagine, this total bullshit got me very upset. This is our bodies she is talking about, the fact that our bodies are able to create and hold life, grow life is being shamed in such a huge way.This is so derogative and so harmful, are we still at this stage, have we not got past this.

How much longer are girls and women going to continue to see their cycle as a curse. It is not a curse, it is a gift. Our bodies are giving us the opportunity to cleanse themselves, it is an opportunity every month to take time to sit with ourselves and release everything that has build up inside of us. Sweat Lodges were used by men in order to experience the same thing.When you ignore your body telling you to take that time, you experience pain, and as you continue to ignore and hold everything in that pain intensives. Please listen to your amazing body, it is trying to reach out to you, to teach you. Start to see it for what it really is, A blessing and let your life become transformed.

The following poem was inspired by my anger at the above and also about all the lies that we are being fed in order to dis empower us, yet it is our choice whether we give those lies, those words power. Remember we always have a choice.

This feeling of disgust I have
When I read your words,
Your totally ignorance,
of what you behold,
Is this really how far we have come
is this really the way
you wish to represent something so sacred
so that you will be seen to obey.

This wish to try to mold and bend others,
to your will,
how you always insist
in creeping in
with your ideas
on how this world should be run,
how all who exist here must
become undone.

But I won't stop to take a breath
I will keeping moving and find their root,
I will expose these lies
before they start to branch out and make shoots,
I know what I hold inside
inside the core of my being
where nothing can hide
where all is about freeing.

So come try to drown me,
with all your forceful ideas of what you think I need to know,
Don't hold back now,
because you won't knock me I will continue to grow,
I choose what words to listen to
I choose what I let in
Your manipulation may work on others
But I let it wash over me and spin,
into oblivion away from my web,
Your words don't hold any power
when I refuse to let them build thread.

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