Welcome to at last she said it. Today is part two of meeting your feminist self where

we have even more amazing stories from women who called in to share their personal feminist awakenings.

Enjoy friends.

Okay, now let's shift gears a little on our messages and talk about messages that centered around women's roles or around the divine feminine. The first is an anonymous message.

Hi Susan and Cynthia. I feel like I might be a bit of an exception in terms of feminism, at least in the area where I grew up in the church.

I have never felt good about women's roles in the church.

It's always been upsetting, and I have felt uneasy about the

inequality that I saw and experienced growing up, especially when I was in

young women's and we would learn about the family proclamation and have activities about homemaking and being a good wife and mother.

And my whole life I have been focused more on personal growth and

taking care of my family right now my family that I grew up in rather than a future family. A few years ago I came out to myself as bisexual and that put a lot of things into place for me a lot of my life started making sense and

ultimately that broke my shelf with regards to the church. I have all the whole rest of my family are still part of the church and I respect that decision

it's just not a place for me anymore especially because of women's roles and how women are viewed in the church.

I love this message so much because I'm as I was listening I'm thinking we need to have

this anonymous person on our staff.

She's exactly, like she's talking exactly about what this whole project is about for us,

Susan, I feel like, like we're, we, you and I are completely uneasy about women's roles, so hopefully that is what we are promoting here on at last she said, you know, we're promoting personal growth because we can't change the system right

but I can change my engagement relying more on personal revelation less on rules for

you know from the organization so anyway that resonated with me I love that that

let's listen to summer hi Cynthia hi Susan this Summer. I think it was probably in my 30s that I started to see some

aspects of my church experience with new eyes. Today when I go to church on Sundays,

the patriarchal structure for me is glaring.

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