Recognising and honouring the changes that occur across pre-menarche and young adulthood for and in our daughters can be a hard place to hold alone.
We must create a place of sacredness that provides the many faces of ‘woman’ if we want to support the transition of whole, healthy and empowered women.
Painful observations we often hear from Mothers are:
“I don’t know how to connect with her anymore”
It’s true — pre-adolescence & adolescence can be a tumultuous time for our beautiful girls, and our relationship with them can stall or suddenly feel awkward or complicated.
As parents, it can feel lonely as we try to navigate this moment of change, challenge and development with our daughters.
“The Push-Pull with your girl is real, & why we need the tribe to bring all our girls home to their true essence for the next part of their journey”
It can be tricky to equip them with the skills and capacities they need to be healthy, connected and well human beings, when we have not yet set new frameworks that support the transition into young adulthood.
Rites of Passage help to make sense of this moment of change.
Marking the moment of childhood ending and young adulthood beginning with gravitas & celebration signals a moment of initiation into the new.
Helping her to identify who she wants to become as a woman, whilst sitting in the space of many women’s stories, allows the tension to release as she explores identity, responsibility, stereotypes, ambition and more in the safety of women who hold, love, accept and honour the becoming that is the future woman.
This is a big moment which requires us to step away from daily life to presently, consciously enliven and deepen our daughters’ connection with themselves and their bodies, to mark the ending of an era- childhood and light the wondrous pathway ahead of healthy, young adulthood.
She can feel the pull…a yearning but will self-initiate using the stereotypes and belief systems she has been fed of what a woman is, unless we provide a moment where she can explore, excavate and solidify her sense of self and her place in the world through an experience that will live on in her forever.
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