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The Business Of Womanhood: Managing The Remorse Of Putting Yourself On Sale
You must up your price and transform yourself from a cubic zirconia necklace anyone can purchase from Claire’s to a six-figure Bulgari necklace the average person cannot afford.
When it comes to the business of womanhood we must always give ourselves grace because we have come a long way. Who we were when we were young, naive, and desperate is not who we are now. All of those valuable lessons we learned along the way compound and result in us being more exclusive with our time, bodies, and love. That is because we have priced ourselves higher and deemed ourselves more worthy than what we received back then.
Emotionally managing the discrepancy between what you accepted back then and what you are willing to accept now is tough, because that remorse tells us that we could’ve priced ourselves high from the jump! We could’ve walked away, clapped back, or blocked their number from the beginning. Or simply demanded better treatment.
Again, compassion is necessary, because in those moments when we accepted crumbs we had no idea how valuable and precious we were. At the time we valued having bodies in the seats, or a damn man and a lot of friends, over ourselves. And that’s okay. Because just like we got exactly what we wanted back then we will receive what we want now…
