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The Most Empowering Thing A Woman Can Do Is Listen To Her Own Body

May’s In Bloom is here.

This month, we’re looking at laziness and what we’ve made it mean.

Somewhere along the way, rest became something to justify. Slowing down became something to feel guilty for. And not constantly doing becam

If you’ve ever struggled to find In Bloom on the website, this is for you.

We’ve made it easier to navigate, explore past editions, and keep up with each month’s topic.

Whether you’re reading for the first time or revisiting

The idea of the “girlboss” used to be about pushing through everything.

Consistency meant showing up the same way every day, no matter how you felt. Slowing down felt like failure. Rest felt unproductive.

But more and more women are sta

This sounds simple, but it changes everything.

Most women have been taught to disconnect from their bodies. To push through, override, and keep going no matter what.

Learning to listen is where things start to shift. Your energy makes more sense. Y

There’s a difference between pushing through your body and actually working with it.

Most of us were taught to ignore signals like fatigue, mood shifts, or changes in focus and just keep going. But when you start paying attention instead, you

We’ve built a world that rewards one version of us
and quietly questions the rest.

Clarity. Energy. Consistency.
Held up as the standard.

But what if that standard was never neutral to begin with?

What if it only ever reflected one phase of

We’re not taught that intimacy can change.

That desire can feel different from one week to the next.
That the way you want to be touched, seen, or held can shift.

So when it does, it’s easy to think something’s wrong.

But your bo

There are so many moments where you look at your day and feel like you didn’t do enough.

You compare it to what you thought you should have done, or what everyone else seems to be doing, and suddenly it feels like you’ve fallen short.

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“The Most Empowering Thing A Woman Can Do Is Listen To Her Own Body”

— Ava Chessari