Strong Women Need Each Other

There was a time in my life when being called strong was a compliment, but once I had no choice but to "be strong" or give up I began to hate when someone called me strong.  I thought to myself, I DO NOT WANT TO BE STRONG! I want to collapse, I am so tired. The kind of tired that is in your soul. Knowing if I wasn't "strong"  my daughter and I couldn't survive. So I became numb. Not strong, just numb. I put myself on the back burner and just did what I needed to do. I put everyone's needs above my own.  

Recently, as I have been creating this Equine Assisted Learning Barn with no sponsors, no real help, no grants and basically on a prayer, I realized that there are other women like me! Women who do not have a real outlet, do not practice self care, do not even have a social outlet other than kid's activities and maybe church.  My greatest escape has come from a 90 minute nail appointment with another "strong" woman.  Creating meaningful friendship and finding someone who just got it blew my mind.  That's where the idea for this group came from, a friend and I saying we deserve what we give others!! So this will be my tribe, the women who need a space to decompress free of judgement and shame!  What does this group look like? I think it will be a developing story but having "therapy" once a week with like-minded women has to be positive.  Why is it that if we tell our partners, kids, friends..whoever, that we are going to hang out with friends we get (or at least feel) judged and selfish? So we will be a "support group" "therapy" "padded room" however you choose to label it so you can claim 1-2 hrs a week to recharge your soul! We will be all those things, we will be much more. Maybe painting, maybe wine, maybe crying and definitely horses to help recharge our souls! 

Come be part of my own therapy and self preservation!  

No kids, no men, no exceptions.