Exploring the association between Beauty and Women
As women, it is really important for us to contemplate and know intimately the meaning and experience of Beauty. I can hear many of you screaming “That’s ridiculous! What about my mind, my intellect, my emotions! I don’t have time for this! I don’t want to be just another pretty face!” Hold those thoughts 
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I would go so far as to say that one of the top things we can do to empower ourselves, as women, is to school ourselves in the art of Beauty and get to work creating it!
(Which, I might add, is very different than trying day in and day out to achieve an impossible ideal of Beauty.)
There are three main reasons that I make this claim:
- Collectively, as women, we are held to one standard: Beauty. In the dictionary the second definition of Beauty is: A beautiful woman. We are unified under the Beauty umbrella, right or wrong, for better or worse, beauty is the expectation upon us.
- There is so much dis-empowerment happening for women around personal image and beauty, with a switch of perspective, it stands to reason that there is huge potential for regaining that lost power. Follow me?
- If we are actually able to embody Real Beauty consistently, we have achieved something magnificent, because we have actually achieved the underlying qualities and characteristics that manifest as Beauty.
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stephanie*
dear and beautiful shannon (yes!)
funnily enough, you posted this blog on my birthday-i just stumbled upon it now…
just today, i realized (and wow) how much i tend to hide my self (and beauty), how much i still make myself little (i am quite tall in fact), as if i were afraid, that when i am in my full beauty and let it radiate (make up and clothing is just a part of it, you know it ;o) )-it would be *too much*, that there would be a lot of shining out of me…and then, what would i do? as to this allowing, there comes an opening up and extension of my self and there for a lot of vulnerability…
do you know that? thank you for sharing your wisdom, stephanie.
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Apr 9th, 2010
shannon
Hi Stephanie,
I am thrilled to have posted something of value to you on your birthday. Beauty is a fierce and powerful thing. I hear it all over your post. As women the paradox is crazy, we are expected to be beautiful and yet it gets us in trouble so we hide it. Yours (beauty) is very evident from your thumbnail.
Beauty takes courage indeed.
xo
shannon
Apr 11th, 2010