Self Trust

For those of us conditioned as women, one of the trickiest things to learn in adulthood is how to trust ourselves, to listen to our own still, small voice in the midst of the patriarchal cacophony we’re living in and working so hard to disrupt. The challenge isn’t that we don’t have an inner voice, but that we have to defy our gendered conditioning to find it.

Photo of Dara Laine Murray by Emily Wilkerson at Harvest Retreats

Since infancy, many of us assigned female at birth are conditioned to smile on…