12/15/2025
Do Women Owe Themselves an Apology?
This episode begins with a long-overdue win: the FDA’s decision to remove the “black box” warning from women’s hormone replacement therapy. It’s a moment worth celebrating—and the perfect entry point into a much bigger conversation about women’s health, stress, and survival.
But before asking how society failed women, I found myself asking something else: Do we owe ourselves an apology?
As a Gen Xer raised by Civil Rights Era Boomers and the Jim Crow Silent Generation, I inherited a legacy of strength, silence, and endurance. We were taught to be exceptional, grateful, unproblematic, and unbreakable. The superwoman script came with a cost—unchecked stress, emotional suppression, and health consequences that many women are only now beginning to understand.
In this episode, I share my own journey through what I call The Great Unlearning—a midlife reckoning shaped by depression, motherhood, journaling, forgiveness, and learning how to speak to myself with grace instead of criticism.
This is an honest, reflective, kitchen-table conversation about:
• Generational expectations placed on women
• Stress, identity, and midlife transitions
• Self-forgiveness and emotional healing
• Learning to choose joy, peace, and softness
This episode also sets the stage for an upcoming kitchen table conversation with an incredible perimenopause and menopause doctor, Dr. LaKeischa on her virtual tour, We Owe Women an Apology, on Dec. 18 @ 7 pm live, here on my page.
If this conversation resonates, I invite you to like, subscribe, and share—and join me as we create space for honesty, healing, and becoming who we are now.
💬 What’s one thing you owe yourself an apology for?
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