For me it started with the classic children's biography series. Harriet Tubman and Amelia Earhart sitting side by side on a shelf. I was a little farm girl in the Midwest and something in those pages quietly told me that women could do extraordinary things and still be fully, messily human while doing them.
Amelia Earhart did something to me as a child that I still carry. It was not the records or the mystery. It was her power to do what others doubted in a time when that doubt was everywhere. I remember feeling…before the world starts to try to talk us out of it …that I could do that too. That innate knowing that lives in girls before anyone dims it. I went on to get my pilot's license at 16.
And even now, after nearly 20 years in conventional medicine that expanded into functional and holistic women's health… I trace some of that courage back to a little girl on a farm reading about a woman who flew anyway. As a mom I share this with my children often. To show them what a woman who remembers her power can do. The ripples continue.
We do it scared. We do it anyway.
You are doing something important here. The algorithm wants the ten-second version. You are insisting on the whole woman. That is the work that actually changes things.✨
I love this so much! And I absolutely resonate. I had that same feeling as a girl but the world stripped me of it and now midlife is a fight to get it back. Thank you for your kind words ❤️
Thank you for this, Kerry! It's true that celebrating individuals for one element of their lives or accomplishments de-humanizes them and makes them seem more like figures from a story book than the real, messy people like us. And they are most valuable as inspirations so that we real, messy people can make decisions that might one day be celebrated when the going gets tough and the choices might be life and death. Thank you for all that you do to help keep all of history alive and to inspire us.
There are so many unknown hidden women's stories that you could write this into infinity and not tell them all. Thanks you for opening so many eyes to the truth, Kerry!
Thank you for this. Really.
For me it started with the classic children's biography series. Harriet Tubman and Amelia Earhart sitting side by side on a shelf. I was a little farm girl in the Midwest and something in those pages quietly told me that women could do extraordinary things and still be fully, messily human while doing them.
Amelia Earhart did something to me as a child that I still carry. It was not the records or the mystery. It was her power to do what others doubted in a time when that doubt was everywhere. I remember feeling…before the world starts to try to talk us out of it …that I could do that too. That innate knowing that lives in girls before anyone dims it. I went on to get my pilot's license at 16.
And even now, after nearly 20 years in conventional medicine that expanded into functional and holistic women's health… I trace some of that courage back to a little girl on a farm reading about a woman who flew anyway. As a mom I share this with my children often. To show them what a woman who remembers her power can do. The ripples continue.
We do it scared. We do it anyway.
You are doing something important here. The algorithm wants the ten-second version. You are insisting on the whole woman. That is the work that actually changes things.✨
I love this so much! And I absolutely resonate. I had that same feeling as a girl but the world stripped me of it and now midlife is a fight to get it back. Thank you for your kind words ❤️
You’re remembering and guiding other women to remember too. You honor them.🫶🏼
Thank you for this, Kerry! It's true that celebrating individuals for one element of their lives or accomplishments de-humanizes them and makes them seem more like figures from a story book than the real, messy people like us. And they are most valuable as inspirations so that we real, messy people can make decisions that might one day be celebrated when the going gets tough and the choices might be life and death. Thank you for all that you do to help keep all of history alive and to inspire us.
Thank you, Kady. I hope women’s history becomes more about of our lives and discussions.
You're helping make that more true every day.
There are so many unknown hidden women's stories that you could write this into infinity and not tell them all. Thanks you for opening so many eyes to the truth, Kerry!