Episode 40: Women's Liberation
Piano music - "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain," Traditional
Arranged & performed by Jessica Roemischer
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Arranged & performed by Jessica Roemischer
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My grandmother, Mme. Berthe, c.1930
When I posted my podcast about leaving a traumatic marriage, I didn't anticipate the response I'd get. I didn't anticipate hearing from so many women who had the same experience as I. Those responses inspired deep self-reflection. Having come from a line of highly-gifted women, like my grandmother, who became famous for her theatrical costumes, why was I living an un-liberated life? Why hadn't I realized it? And, why are so many women in this world living in fear? Here I share my thoughts on that question--the roots of my own insecurities, despite the gifts I have, and how that led to years of entrapment--and how, finally, after nearly six decades, I'm stepping out.
The world NEEDS the gifts of women. And for that to happen, women HAVE to become free.
A reflection on this podcast by a dear friend:
"You traverse back and forth so seamlessly from the deepest personal revelation to providing immensely insightful and empowering insights on how we internalize coping strategies from early experience that drive us for a lifetime. I have never heard or read anyone explore this most important of subjects with so much candor and insight. Sometimes you speak paragraphs that are breathtaking in their movement:
'Lone polar bear white against white standing on an ice-flow not knowing how to get to the next one...because the ice is breaking up...So when I was young, six, my world broke up...existentially, emotionally, psychologically, cellularly I was standing on shaky ground because my dad left.
The artistry, insight, and caring you bring to them is extraordinary.
You are creating a different kind of liberation, new paths to empowerment and even a kind of transfigured liberation theology.
You give language and clarity to places in the heart that usually have no words and
I can't really think of a greater gift."
The world NEEDS the gifts of women. And for that to happen, women HAVE to become free.
A reflection on this podcast by a dear friend:
"You traverse back and forth so seamlessly from the deepest personal revelation to providing immensely insightful and empowering insights on how we internalize coping strategies from early experience that drive us for a lifetime. I have never heard or read anyone explore this most important of subjects with so much candor and insight. Sometimes you speak paragraphs that are breathtaking in their movement:
'Lone polar bear white against white standing on an ice-flow not knowing how to get to the next one...because the ice is breaking up...So when I was young, six, my world broke up...existentially, emotionally, psychologically, cellularly I was standing on shaky ground because my dad left.
The artistry, insight, and caring you bring to them is extraordinary.
You are creating a different kind of liberation, new paths to empowerment and even a kind of transfigured liberation theology.
You give language and clarity to places in the heart that usually have no words and
I can't really think of a greater gift."
