For several thousand years, the patriarchy** has eroded, condemned, punished, controlled and shamed women (and men, too, but in a different way).

The result has been that we have become totally disconnected from our bodies, from the power and pleasure we hold, from the wisdom of our wombs, from our intuition and our magical soul gifts. We have ignored them, hidden them, buried them, because it became so unsafe to be a magical, powerful, wild woman.

(**By "patriarchy" I refer to the system of governance, I do not mean "men").