I hear you…I’ve been there. I used to work hard in a high-performance corporate role here in Australia. Through my sheer will and determination, I succeeded in many areas professionally. But I realized that trying to fit myself into a corporate fast-paced world eventually led to losing myself in the process.
The constant pressure, focus, and grit required to keep up in a corporate world, which for me entailed an environment crafted predominantly by men for men, meant that the one area that constantly let me down was my female body and health.
I wanted to serve to my fullest potential and make this world a better place. But instead, I spent years suffering, dimming my light, contorting to fit myself into an image of 'success'. This led me down the path of believing my female form was a major disadvantage that needed to be overcome or compensated for if I was to continue to perform at a high level in a male-orientated corporate world.
I felt I needed to constantly push, wrangle and control my body and mind to work at a consistently high level of performance that matched the mold of what ‘high performance’ and ‘success’ looked like based on my social and cultural conditioning, rather than honoring and trusting my body’s unique natural rhythms to find my flow-state.
