Women’s day celebrates and honours the empowerment, creativity, and innovation of women all around the day. When women freely channel their feminine energy, it can enhance their intuition, creativity, and emotional strength, making them empowered. Getting in touch with your feminine side is the key to getting strong and confident and manifesting a healthy relationship with yourself and others.
If you feel like you’re losing your femininity and feeling passive in life, this women’s day special blog is perfect for you. Ladies, dive in to explore what is feminine energy, its types, and how to heal your wounded femininity to embody the energy like a goddess.
What is Feminine Energy?
Feminine energy is all about possessing and showcasing qualities and traits linked with femininity. It might be to your surprise that getting in femininity is not about wearing “girly clothes” or “liking pink”. Also, anyone can embody femininity regardless of their gender.
The key features of femininity are intuition, empathy, ability to express emotions, creativity, and being nurturing. In today’s competitive world these feminine traits are looked down upon as weak and passive. But in truth, there’s no need to shy away from embodying these qualities, rather, you need to balance these with action-oriented and goal-driven masculine traits. So, you can be soft spoken yet assertive, empathetic yet logical, and so on.
The feminine traits come from the 7 feminine archetypes that can guide your personal growth. Check them out in the next section to explore feminine energy examples.
Types of Feminine Energy
The combined spirit of femininity takes into account a total of 7 divine feminine archetypes, each having their own qualities and challenges. Take a look at the dark and light feminine energy for each archetype:
1.The Maiden Archetyps
She is innocent and playful, possessing curiosity and growth. She might struggle with too much naivety and passivity.
2.The Mother Archetype
Loving, warm, and supporting, her challenges could be co-dependency and lack of boundaries when she’s too deep into the mothering energy.
3. The Queen Archetype
She is confident and can be a great leader, however she can also be controlling and jealous if her dark feminine energy takes over.
4. The Huntress Archetype
Her qualities are freedom, strength, and courage. Too much of this energy can make you feel detached and fear vulnerability.
5. The Mystic Archetype
She embodies intuition, calmness, and deep spiritual insight. Too much mystic energy can make you lose reality and become isolated.
6. The Sage Archetype
The sage masters clarity and rationality of emotions but may struggle with understanding her own emotions when she values logic way too much over emotion.
7. The Lover Archetype
She’s all about magnetism, sensuality, and passion but too much of this energy can make you crave too much validation, attention, and need for commitment.
So, each feminine archetype has its gifts and limitations and that’s when being too much feminine can stunt your emotional, inter-relational, and professional growth. If you feel like you resonate with any of the feminine energies or limitations, you could be embodying (or overembodying) those types of feminine energy.
How it Affects Your Health?
As per an NCBI study, all men have some feminine aspect and women have masculine aspects. Balancing them in a healthy ratio, as per the roles you play, the job you have to do is important.
As more and more women are taking up masculine roles in male-dominated world, they are bound to embrace masculinity. However, too much of that can isolate you from your feminine side and cause emotional and physical health issues.
Even science has proven that women who wield more power or exhibited dominant, aggressive behaviour (masculine traits), had more testosterone in their body. Too much testosterone can lower estrogen levels in women, and low estrogen levels can reduce women’s reproductive health, ability to regulate mood, and worsen the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
These findings suggest that when women are tapped into their healthy feminine energy, it can help regulate and restore their physical and emotional health. Moreover, having a wounded femimine energy can lead to adverse health effects. Check the next section to explore the signs of wounded feminine energy.
Signs of Wounded Feminine Energy
Your feminine side can get wounded through trauma, abuse, unhealthy relationship dynamics, lack of self-care, or through societal and cultural conditioning. The following signs are the indications that you can use as a feminine energy test:
- Feeling numb and difficulty identifying and expressing emotions.
- Having low self-esteem and being critical.
- Lack of boundaries and too many people-pleasing.
- Attracting unhealthy relationships that drain you.
- Suppressing or losing your freedom, curiosity, and imagination.
- Tying to control every outcome and seeking perfectionism.
Healing Your Feminine Energy
If you want a fulfilling life and have healthy relationships with yourself and others, tapping into your feminine side is the key. It can be a long process that requires deep work, but the results are worth it. Here’s how you can do it:
- Become Self Aware: Journal your thoughts and reflect on your feelings about the feminine traits. Notice how you feel about them to find out which areas you need to work on.
- Proudly Embracing Femininity: Engage in the activities and hobbies that connect you to your feminine side, like sketching, painting, volunteering for care jobs.
- Practice Self-Compassion and Self-Care: The best way to nurture others is through filling your own cup first. Start to care about your emotional needs, appearance, and physical health.
- Do Emotional Healing: You can heal your wounded feminine side by expressing your blocked emotion without judgement. Create a safe space to let out your emotions and past trauma.
- Focus on Inner Work and Personal Growth: Listen to podcasts that focus on women empowerment and personal growth. Do things that contribute to your personal growth. You can travel or read good literature on women’s empowerment.
- Seek Support: Finally, seek support from a therapist that can take a guided approach with you and help you heal your femininity and become bold and confident, while still being in touch with your receptive, feminine side.
Summing Up
Feminine energy is not just about being soft, loving, and caring. A truly feminine woman knows how to stand up for herself, assert healthy boundaries, express her emotions without shame, and help others do the same. Reconnect with your feminine side by making efforts and enjoying hobbies that spark creativity, joy, and propel you towards finding your happiness. Try these and discover the fearless goddess in you!
