Don't Worry,
Things Fall Out Of Women
All The Time

   

by Becky Sobol 

I consider myself a pretty enlightened woman. I am a registered nurse. I used to coordinate clinical trials. I ran studies on everything from arthritis to premature ejaculation. Still, nothing prepared me for that moment in the shower. One minute you are intact, the next you are greeting an unfamiliar intruder... or should I say escapee. Gravity, trauma and poor connective tissue conspired against me. My self-image would take a hit. Closer inspection and vain efforts to stuff the offending tissue back into position, quickly turned to panic. My heart beat wildly! My eyes darted! Quick! Water off! I frantically searched for a towel... eck...clean enough! Doors shut! Grab phone! What is that number 447- 54.... oooo! That’s it! Sweet Jesus, please let the doctor have an opening. Ahhhh!!! They got me in right away.

I was worried that I wouldn’t be taken seriously. Worse, I was already mourning the impending loss of my uterus. I was suddenly sentimental over that well used organ that I have been at odds with since puberty. Would I still be a woman without my uterus? Would they laugh and write “hypochondriac” in my chart?... [Read More]

 

 

  
 

Moving Toward
the Promised Land

 

by Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D

 

In the last month we began to talk about freedom. Personal freedom is essential for one to feel comfortable as an Enchanted Self - someone able to access positive states of meaning again and again, while living a life of meaning and purpose. Last time, I used the Exodus from Egypt as a metaphorical example of some of the struggles that we all face in obtaining personal freedom. Today, let's look at the notion that the Hebrews kept their own language. We could expand that to mean that they expressed themselves in words that had essence to them, that fit their world view. We know that words have subtle meanings attached to them. Every time we speak in a different language, we slightly change the world view of what we are saying and what it means. An easy example is the word 'snow.' Eskimos have 40 ways to talk about snow. We, as far as I know, have only one way. An Eskimo can actually see subtleties in the white expanse that would completely pass me – and most of us – by. Thus, we each carry our world view, composed of the unique memories, feelings and impressions we have collected through our lives... [Read More]