Clearly, we cannot take our daughters into a space where we have never been. We cannot provide healing for them in areas in which we’re still deeply wounded ourselves. If we still carry generations of shame about the processes of our female bodies, we cannot hope to pass on to our daughters a sense of love for their own bodies. We need new ways of thinking about this whole area. Each of us must create new ceremonies and new rites of passage for our own daughters. But before we can hope to do this effectively, we must own our own experiences, however unsupportive and painful, and work through them.
- Christiane Northrup, MD Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom