Episode 179: Solo Episode! The Power of Community, Grit, and Grace
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today, I have a solo episode for you! I am talking about community, specifically why it is important for women to be in a community with one another. My Facebook group has grown to over 10,000 members and on any given day you can see the magic that happens when women support one another. When you are surrounded by other women in similar situations it opens up space to share our experiences, struggles and wins. Ultimately, when women join together in a community we begin to own our collective power.
In this episode I talk about:
- The impact women in community have on men
- The work of victims is to get to a place of feeling strong enough and empowered enough to be able to walk away
- Our true power lies in our connection to other women
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:48.7 | Hey, everyone. It's a solo episode. It's been a while since I've done one. So I want to talk to you guys a little |
| 0:58.1 | bit today about community and why it is so incredibly important for women to be in community |
| 1:07.6 | with one another. |
| 1:18.3 | There is a great article that was written many, many years ago called Why Women Need a Tribe. |
| 1:19.2 | Now, this was written before it was recognized that the use of such a word was problematic. |
| 1:27.1 | However, the... I've sort of lived by this quote. |
| 1:31.3 | I use it a lot in some of my, I don't know, it's been in all of my programs, I think, this article. |
| 1:39.3 | But anyway, the quote is, in ancient times, women shared a lot more than they do today. They shared care of their babies, gathered food, and cooked together. The women and the children shared their lives intimately and were a source of strength and comfort to each other on a daily basis. Traditions like the Red Tent, where women came together during menstruation, often with synchronized cycles, |
| 2:02.2 | were a beautiful time for nurturing, sharing women's business, and keeping each other resilient and |
| 2:07.0 | happy. Today, women are a lot more isolated in their own homes and lives and more separate from |
| 2:13.2 | each other. The opportunities for coming together are much more limited and the time spent together |
| 2:19.1 | in this way greatly reduced. Because of this, women miss the beautiful healing and nourishment |
| 2:25.6 | that comes from being with others. How amazing is that? |
| 2:44.4 | You know, I think about this all the time when I look at how you guys who are, those that are in my Facebook group, interact with one another. |
| 2:55.5 | I think the power of my Facebook group and any Facebook group where there is really loving, nurturing support for women in particular. |
| 3:00.3 | It is, it's like there's a, there's a Facebook group in my, for moms in my neighborhood. |
| 3:11.8 | And it's run by my dear friend Leonora Pitts. |
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