Let’s talk
about hips...
By Nadirah R. Bray HHP
Photos by Carl F. Sermon Photography
Let’s talk about hips baby! Let’s talk about you and me, let’s
talk about hips!
Hips are not just for birthing babies, they are for birthing
ideas and businesses. Hips take up space if we allow them
to. Hips assist you in moving through life with femininity,
grace, and ease. Hips help you receive all the blessings life
has to give.
Do you find yourself shut off from your chin down? Are
you pushing through life with your mind, and forgetting
about taking your body with you? Have you decided not to
give birth anymore? Have you had a hysterectomy? Have
you disconnected from your sensuality or given up on your
sexuality? Have you had a difficult time in your business
or getting your business going? Do you feel you have
something to prove and in doing so you are not listening to
your intuition or taking the self-care breaks?
Women have different hormone levels and a different
physiology than men. It is my belief that we are not created
equal and instead are two parts of one whole - parts that
compliment, support, and sustain each other.
In a Huffpost article written by Emma Gray, “Women And
Work: Are Gen-Y Women Experiencing Millennial Burnout
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Syndrome?”, HuffPost Women spoke to Rachel Simmons,
author of “The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic
Girls with Courage and Confidence,” about the subject of
workplace stress and how young women deal with it. “Stress
is a big issue for girls and young women right now, in part
because of the increasing expectation that women be all
things to all people,” she said. “They’re expected to be really
smart and hardworking and also have a great body, a successful
partner relationship and be a great parent, sister or daughter.
The sum of those responsibilities is crushing.”
Unfortunately, women do little to mitigate office stress.
Forbes reported that women were far less likely than men
to take breaks during work hours, go out to lunch or go
take a walk, perhaps a symptom of Type-A personalities
and subsequent guilt about leaving their desks. (http://m.
huffpost.com/us/entry/1392741) I feel that this applies to
gen-x women as well as baby boomers.
I believe that this is a woman thing! I don’t know about
you, but there was a time in my life where I felt like I was
a failure in all of the roles listed above. This feeling of dis-
ease had created a life-threatening disease in my body. My
first thought was, “how do I get it out and how do I reclaim
my health and remain healthy?” How do we remove the dis
(degeneration) from ease?