This is who I am—take me or leave me

Take time to listen to your dreams, to write them down. Take time to recognize that there are things going on within you that need to be felt, or said, or lived, or grieved. Pay attention to these things both in yourself and in the people in your life. Pay attention to the authentic self.

Now, about that word authentic. It is related to the word author—and you can think of it as being the author of your own self. When you’re living your own reality, you become the sovereign of your own life. You know who you are, you speak what you believe. There’s a natural pride that goes with that: This is who I am—take me or leave me.  – Marion Woodman, from The Power of the Feminine

More Marion Woodman on Beyond Meds:

• Dancing in the Flames. The entire film is now available for free online viewing

• the necessity of honoring ours and others rage

• We accept a cultural value that annihilates the Earth (making us all sick and in denial)

• Marion Woodman and the Conscious Feminine Project

• Ask, not why the addiction, but why the pain?