Excerpt from the book: Misogyny in Healthcare Settings

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I’m feeling the feminine nurturing energy of this land as I complete what is hopefully the final round of edits on the book manuscript.

Here’s an excerpt:
Misogyny in Healthcare Settings

A pretty strong case can be made that the medical system is structured specifically to disconnect women from their internal guidance and even to convince them they are “crazy.”

Whether it’s with medication that numbs women’s body sensations and drowns out their intuition or with therapeutic approaches that perpetuate the following ideas:

• Women’s bodies and minds can’t be trusted.
• Medical practitioners know best when it comes to making decisions about women’s mental and emotional health.
• Women should adjust themselves to accommodate mistreatment.

The idea that women’s bodies and emotions are inherently problematic and need to be fixed is prevalent in all facets of healthcare.

My definition of misogyny is holding the belief that women exist only to serve and nurture others, as opposed to being whole people with their own thoughts, beliefs, dreams, and goals.

When misogynistic energy and attitudes are present, women are assigned a function to perform, a service to provide, or a role to play, and when they are unwilling or unable to do so, they’re either punished or discarded.

There are consequences for stepping outside the box, and there is often no grace available for failing to live up to the role they’ve been cast in or the image that others created.

In the medical system, the message still seems to be that women and their bodies are to be seen and not heard. It’s as if the system is saying, “If you cause too much trouble, you’re out of here.”

If we truly want to heal what ails us as individuals and as a society, women’s health is a good place to start.

By giving women’s bodies and minds such a narrow permission field, we’ve stifled our own life force.

To wage war on a woman’s body is to be at odds with life itself, and when we do this individually or collectively, we will suffer.