A note from Alicia: Last week I received the nudge to write this – for myself, and for every woman. This is my love letter to the feminine body. I feel we need more of these! Many more! Wouldn’t it be amazing to see a stack of love letters to the feminine body from women everywhere? What a different reflection we can give to ourselves, to our bodies, to all of the ill will and conditional love we’ve been taught to give to ourselves! Join me, and write your own love letter to your body, or a love letter to the feminine body. Share it with me if you feel called. ❤

 

Rising into the beauty of what is

Have you ever taken the time

The earnest and deeply loving time

To thank your body for everything

It does for you?

 

To love on your body

The vehicle within which

You reside

The place that you feel

And sense and experience

The world around you

 

A breathing, living miracle

That is a beautiful

And unique reflection of

Who you are

 

If you were to take a

Moment and listen to

The way you speak to yourself

About yourself

Your body in particular

 

Would you hear kindness

And words of adoration

And love?

Or would it be a very different

Inner dialogue, one

That you would never

Speak to a friend or lover

 

Words you would never want

Someone else to speak to you

 

The feminine body has been

Trapped and buried in shame

For centuries

Told its only purpose is for

Entertainment

Its only value in its beauty

And fertility and ability

To captivate and entice

Reproduce and nurture

 

Oh how myopic and cruel

Those small measurements

Of worthiness are

How utterly inaccurate

And hateful those standards

Have been

 

The truth is that the

Feminine body is a vortex

Of power, creativity and
Divine mystery, strength

Perseverance, sensuality

And love

 

This amazing, powerful body

Is so much more than what

It’s been told it should

And can and ever could be

 

Consider the journey you

Have traveled in your

Precious body

The blood, sweat

Pleasure, resilience

Emotional connectivity

Strength

And sensual deliberation

 

Be in awe of what it has lived

Through, all that it has

Done to hold you

Every single day it has

Diligently and without question

Persevering under incredible

Stress and pressure to constantly

Perform at an impossible level

 

Can you be in celebration of this

Sacred temple within which you reside?

 

Perhaps if you’d been born into

A world that didn’t hold such steady

Disdain coupled with fascination

And a desire to control

You would know better,

Deep in your bones

That you are a masterpiece of

The highest order

 

Not made from a man as one

Book would say

Always set as inferior

Perpetually compared

To its masculine counterpart

Made to be the lesser

The anomaly

The enigmatic problem

Always needing to be fixed

 

But made from stardust and

Brilliance

Made to swoon in delight

And be revered for its

Majesty no matter its

Shape or age

Fertility or ability

 

As you speak to your body

All this history

All this misogyny

All these erroneous

Reflections of mediocrity

Must be removed from your

Vocabulary and from the very

Eyes you see yourself with

 

What could be possible if you

No longer accepted the

Shroud of shame that

Has been placed over her

As normal, necessary

And just the way it is

 

Who says your body is less

And why would you continue

To believe those words to be true?

 

With fresh eyes that have been

Freed from the strangle hold

Of patriarchy

I invite you to see the perfection

Of your body

And revel in the joy and freedom

That is yours when you offer

Yourself praise

Instead of waiting for someone

Else to give it to you

 

I invite you to love your body

For all it does every single day

For the life it allows you to live

For the pleasure in it

That is there for you

To discover and revel in daily

 

Why not write a love letter

To your immaculate body

The one that holds every

Memory, that is a living

Breathing bank of experience

The one that houses every scar

Every mark this life has

Left on you

 

Why not whisper poetry

And offer it flowers

Dress it in ways that help

It feel cherished and adored

Give it the sensual

Epiphanies it craves and let

It know it is the most important

Desirable, magnificent

Creature alive

 

Beyond the conditioning

Greater than the fear of inadequacy

Above the din of lies you’ve been fed

Rising into the beauty of what is

 

You are a masterpiece

A work of living art

Deeply connected to the moon

And the tides

Always changing

Becoming more of what you

Are meant to be

 

You are meant to be loved

Showered with adoration

Honored and held safe

Seen and celebrated as

The blessing you are

 

Can you let go of the myth

Of perfection that has wrapped

Itself around your neck

Transcend the expectations

That have bound your hands

Refuse to play this twisted game

That has you turn on yourself

And hate what you see

In the mirror

 

And instead live this precious life

As the gift you are

 

Can you conjure the courage

And gather your will

Marry it with your desire

To be free of these chains that

Have held you captive

And instead choose to

Live this precious life

As you are

In all your glory

And power and truth

 

Can you let yourself be

Hungry and full of lust

Ready to savor the adventures

That come into your life

Never allowing shame

To dim your light or

Feel you have to cover up

And hide

 

This is a big ask

It may be THE ask of your

Life, of every woman’s life

Oh, but to be free

And fully present to

Your body and to love

It not because it looks

Or performs or seduces

In any certain way

 

But because it is your home

And you care for and love

Your home

Oh, to finally love yourself

Without condition

Life will thankfully

Never be the same

 

Have you ever written a love

Letter to your feminine body

The place where you live

The sacred shape you are

The blessed temple that is you?

 

It’s time

It’s needed

It is long overdue

It is one small way forgiveness

And fortification can begin

 

Loving the skin you’re in

A love letter to your feminine body

From you