Strong Women between Violence and Discrimination ebook

As the saying goes: Express yourself and you'll feel better! I would rather say: Tell your own story, write about your-self and get to know yourself! In a woman's journey towards herself, I don't so much see the path to happiness, but rather the steep path to self-knowledge and self-awareness that makes her under-stand that her whole experience – including trauma, violence and discrimination – is and remains "part of me, because it shapes me and constitutes me as a person and as a woman." I don't need prolonged therapy to erase or transfigure my experiences, because I boldly embrace my experience and turn the shattered mirror into a colourful mosaic – a mosaic of opposites, polyphony, cacophony, and dialectics within myself. This path is broad, extensive, and full of prospects. It's not as steep as it might seem at first, because I don't see my-self as a victim. And I'm not a victim. However, despite all experience I made, my life remains a shattered mirror as long as I continue to look at this shattered mirror, leaving it lying on the ground in front of me, without taking action, and instead surrendering to passivity. The magical turning point is very simple: I don't meditate in front of the shattered mirror, but I gather all the fragments of the mirror, take a clay tablet and press all the fragments of the mirror onto this clay tablet before it hardens. The final result of my self-therapy is the recognition that these shattered fragments of the mirror are part of my experience, my life, myself and my primordial feminine strength. It was these fragments that made me strong. They're colourful because I painted them like the tiles of a mosaic. I no longer reflect myself in them. They are no longer my 'you', but my 'I'. They are no longer my enemies, but my experience, which is part of my spiritual life and has become integrated into my being. Its edges no longer cut the skin of my tender hands because my fragments are embedded in the hardened clay.