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You know that woman who has a great career, has no cellulite, has two kids in two activities each, can make no-fat\/no-gluten\/no-calorie muffins that taste delicious, volunteers in her down time, has the perfect doting husband, has regular women\u2019s night outs, and is always smiling? \u00a0You know, Superwoman? \u00a0Well, guess what? She doesn\u2019t actually exist! \u00a0Everyone has their kryptonite, the woman that you think is Superwoman, is probably just better at hiding hers.<\/p>\n
You can do a lot as a woman. So much. But you just can\u2019t do everything. Now, don\u2019t get me wrong. Today, we are fortunate to exist in a time where we enjoy the fruits of the feminist movement\u2019s labor.\u00a0 Society has made huge strides in letting women have choices (regarding working, parenting, marrying, etc.). And because of the ability to make these choices, women have followed numerous different paths, paths that weren\u2019t available to our mothers and grandmothers.\u00a0 And sometimes, when you have all these choices available to you, you begin to feel that you\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0do everything because you have access to it all, when you didn\u2019t before.<\/p>\n Women of today who balance family, work, a social life, and their health \u2013 we often call them \u2018Superwomen\u201d. Originally women would embrace the term Superwoman, as it empowered us to reach for what had not previously been available to us.\u00a0 The term seemed to credit women with the ability to manage several tasks and responsibilities, and show that we can do more than smoothly run a home.\u00a0 It also recognized that although many of us chose to pursue different paths, we did not drop out of social obligations or neglect our families.<\/p>\n However, if you look closer, it becomes clear that being a Superwoman is about the expectation of doing two or more full time jobs well on our own, it has become about\u00a0excelling<\/strong>\u00a0at everything we do at work and at home,\u00a0not just managing\u00a0<\/strong>it.\u00a0 It seems it is more about pleasing others, rather than achieving goals to better ourselves.\u00a0 You really have to be\u00a0superhuman<\/strong>\u00a0to reach Superwoman status, and many of us are striving for this unrealistic goal that has a serious cost.\u00a0 In fact, for years Gloria Steinem has said that the myth of the Superwoman is an adversary of the women\u2019s movement that should be banished as it makes us try to reach an unattainable goal and leaves us feeling less empowered at the end of it.<\/p>\n Here is the thing,\u00a0we are not meant to be Superwomen!\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Think about it, if Superwomen, like superheroes, were so common, what would make them super? In fact, Superwomen are probably as likely to exist as superheroes. Unfortunately, we have found ourselves in a society that encourages women to try to reach this unattainable goal, and wear it like a badge of honor (or a cape). This doesn\u2019t help us as women, if anything, it perpetuates jealousy, guilt, depression, and conflict.<\/p>\n The way to remove this challenge is to be honest with yourself and with other women, to acknowledge that you are not perfect (by the way, just because you aren\u2019t a Superwoman, it doesn\u2019t mean that you aren\u2019t fabulous!) \u00a0So, instead of secretly envying or judging the woman that you think is Superwoman, why not give her a hug and say, \u201cHey, did you know my kryptonite is \u2026 What\u2019s yours?\u201d \u00a0To give you encouragement to start, I\u2019ll share a few of mine with you; I am horrible at keeping in touch with friends that I truly and dearly love, often my son\u2019s nails grow longer than mine, and I have colonies of dust bunnies living in my house. But I am still fabulous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know that woman who has a great career, has no cellulite, has two kids in two activities each, can make no-fat\/no-gluten\/no-calorie muffins that taste delicious, volunteers in her down time, has the perfect doting husband, has regular women\u2019s night outs, and is always smiling? You know, Superwoman? Well, guess what? She doesn\u2019t actually exist! Everyone has their kryptonite, the woman that you think is Superwoman, is probably just better at hiding hers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a60bea9a803bb817b230050\/1537295401059-GV8PCDV39FW6ESJT7GQ4\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kNvT88LknE-K9M4pGNO0Iqd7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1USOFn4xF8vTWDNAUBm5ducQhX-V3oVjSmr829Rco4W2Uo49ZdOtO_QXox0_W7i2zEA\/super-woman-1885016_1920.jpg?format=original\")
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