The Instinctive Woman

When a woman moves from her instinctive self, she is compelling. Magnetic. Her humanity speaks in unspoken words.

Now and then, Art comes along that imitates life so deeply, so truthfully, that it leaves an imprint on your soul.

Did you see the recent movie 'Hamnet'? The story of William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, and their family. A story of love. Of loss. Of grief. Of reality.

Of a relationship.

Jessie Buckley portrayed a woman so instinctively in touch with her body, her heart. She was raw, real, alive. 

How she portrayed birthing was so primal. How she portrayed grief was so primal.

In a world where it is so important to look so 'put together,' it was refreshing to see the realness of love, of grief, of mothering, fathering, and a relationship portrayed in all its sheer joy and suffering in such a strikingly beautiful way.

All relationships are punctuated by sad moments and circumstances. Hamnet illustrates how grief can tear a couple apart and how each needs to find their own way back. One of the biggest disruptions is expecting another to grieve the way you do. It doesn't happen like that.

Many are so afraid of grief. Of feeling. 

This movie, to me, brings home the only thing that matters.

LOVE.

Not opinions. Not right or wrong. Not perfection. Not glitz or glamour. Not success. Not money.

LOVE.

We miss this. 

In all our striving to get our needs met. To strategise to make things happen, to orchestrate, manipulate things to how our mind wants things to turn out. The one thing that sustains our hearts, our souls, can be forgotten about. LOVE.

I'll admit I was speechless at the end. As if soaked in the humidity, the moist, rich wildness of the environment it was shot in; there was deep sobbing of a damn broken, perhaps of grief still held in. (At the Feet of Our Mothers, Love has No Boundaries) 

Love, loving, and being loved change you, make you who you are.

We are all born through WOMAN. 

And since it's International Women's Day, whether you are a man or a woman, acknowledge that special woman in your life, the mothers, grandmothers, aunties, friends, relatives. If they've passed, acknowledge at least in a quiet moment what they have meant to you. And if you can pick up the phone or meet up and honour a woman in your life today, speak from your heart. Drop anything that's been in the way, and say it. This moment will never return.

Wishing you love,

Here is Jane Fonda's beautiful and deserved description of Hamnet:- Facebook or Instagram 

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