Hey, welcome the show. I am Dr. Josh Axe, and I'm back with another episode. And I got so much

feedback on a recent episode I did on masculinity that I wanted to do an episode as well on

femininity, which we had some requests for. So today I'm really going to walk through,

you know, what makes a woman a woman, how to embrace femininity and all of the incredible

and positive aspects of femininity and what culture is doing today to destroy the masculine

and the feminine rather than celebrating, embracing so you can become your best self. And I think

that's one of the ideas to start here is to say this.

There is such beauty and strength and uniqueness in being a woman or in being a man.

And if you, a lot of this is tied into identity. If you don't embrace who you were created to be,

you're not going to be happy. And you won't become your greatest self. I want to give you example of this to start. I had the opportunity to work with some Olympic swimmers in the past like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lockton, some amazing swimmers. And when I look at their body types, they were built to be swimmers. I mean, you look at them and I think if they would have tried to be NBA basketball players, they might have have failed. They probably couldn't have thrived in that. Or if you had a man that was seven foot tall

and you tried to make him a ballerina, he's probably going to have a really hard time. And

he's not made to do that. There are studies and some evidence in psychology that show when

somebody is good at something, they're happier doing

it. You tend to love something that you are good at or something you were uniquely designed and

created for. And so I think that's one of the ideas we want to embrace here. If you were created to be

an empathetic and compassionate person, okay? And you have a heart for people.

Yet society says, no, you're to be hard and resilient and don't be in touch with your feelings.

It's going to lead you to not feeling like yourself. It's going to lead you to being confused

about your identity and who you even are. And so that's a big basis for what we're going to talk about

today is, is that if you're not embracing your unique virtues you're good at and your unique

gifts and skills and who you were created to be, you're going to be unhappy. And here's the other

thing, you're going to likely make other people unhappy and you're not going to contribute to living out the greatest purpose

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