The Strength of Women

We women are more often than not our own toughest critics.  We believe the best and see the best in everyone around us, but it's hard to see the best in ourselves.  We see our cracks and lacks and waste a lot our lives hovering over a magnifying glass we place on ourselves, seeing only  the worst.  I am terribly guilty of this.  Thankfully I have a husband who tells me to cut it out and embrace what is good and strong about myself.  I'm not perfect, but I am a strong, gutsy woman and I am choosing to remind myself of it. 

I asked the beautiful women in my life if they'd share what strength as a woman looked like or meant to them personally.  These girls are the real deal.  Each one unique.  Each one beautiful and strong.  Aren't they just gorgeous?! 

Sarah Gordon

My strength as a woman is being a risk taker!  It's gotten me into some interesting pickles, but when you choose to live a life of 'no regrets' you take the 'interesting' with the good and make a whole lot of fabulous memories whilst your at it!

Carmen Helm

I think the most striking thing about a woman is her strength.. whether she knows it or not, every girl has a quiet strength that makes her beautiful to the core.  I find my greatest strength hidden in my fierce loyalty.  Those in my pride know they are safe, that I would kill for them and protect their hearts.  My faithfulness and devotion to those in my world is a quality I know is God-give, sinks deepest and shines brightest.

Milly Flack

My strength as a woman is that I'm loyal and adaptable.

Rebecca Stiner

A few years ago if you had asked me to describe my strengths as a woman,  I would have struggled with the question.  Today, I am confident in knowing that my strengths are not reflective of how I feel I am measuring up at the moment; for we all know the vice-grip of unrealistic expectations.  It is in those moments, when life is changing unexpectedly before me, when everything that is familiar is suddenly vanishing-- it is those moments where I muster up that strength that is deep inside-- the strength I wasn't sure I had-- to do the impossible.  It is then I find the courage to think the unthinkable and the ability to hold on tenaciously.  And it is in those moments I realize that what I thought was my weakness has become my strength, an anchor that secures me in the storms of life.  And after the storm has passed I become aware that, as C. JoyBell C. expresses so well, "The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes."