Inspired by the upcoming book by the author Opal Lawrence; The Awakening of The tigress

A Strong, Independent

Woman Manifesto

 

 

A strong, independent woman is not born from comfort or often wealth. She is shaped by moments, experiences, often  not applauded, or understand, by choices no one saw, by nights where she held herself together with only duck tape, prayer and faith, when everything else feels like it’s falling apart. When she and her children stomaches cried out in protested hunger.

 

Let’s get some things clear, strength is not hardness. Independence is not isolation. And power does not mean the absence of vulnerability.

A strong woman feels deeply. And have to straighten her spine, when she feels like lying down. But she refuses to drown in her feelings at times.

 

 it’s not because she wants to be strong all the time, but she has no other choice but to be, for others are depending on her to pull it together.

 

She has learned the art of standing alone without becoming lonely. She knows how to build her own table, when she was not allowed or able to access basic resources; and still leaves space for others and treats them with respect, honesty, and emotional maturity.

 

She does not beg for love, attention, or validation, nor permission. Not because she doesn’t desire connection, but because she has been rejected, abondaned  let down, too many times to count but she knows her worth.

 

Her independence was never about rejecting partnership, but learning how to be self reliant, having her own, so another person could never tells her “get out of my house’

 

It was about refusing to abandon herself.

She learned early that survival required clarity. That waiting to be chosen is a dangerous place to be. As well as asking for permission of how to live your own life.

 

 She learned that depending on approval can starve the very soul. So she chose differently. She chose self-trust. She chose growth, education, over comfort. She chose truth—even when it cost her people, relationships, and familiar versions of herself, loneliness.

 

A strong, independent woman has been misunderstood more times than she can count. Labeled intimidating when she was simply confident. Cold when she was just discerning. Too much when others were doing too little. Too strong and independent, but if she wasn’t then how will she and her children live?

 

She doesn’t argue with those criticism anymore.

She outgrew the need to constantly explain herself.

Her strength allows her to strive when she felt like giving up.

Her independence allowed her  to have freedom, peace and choices.

 

Her power lives in her ability to walk away without hatred and stay without losing herself.

She knows when to fight—and when to let go.

And yes, she gets tired. She doubts herself sometimes. She wishes she could rest her head without carrying the weight of being “the strong one.” She rises again—wiser, softer in the right places, fiercer  from lessons learned.

 

A strong, independent woman does not require  anyone to  rescued her,  she knows that there is no prince charming.

She wants to be respected. She is not chasing. She is planning, and attaining her goals.

 

The truth is, once a woman remembers who she is, there is no going back, she simply stops crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t step over a mini puddle for her.

 

She attached her crown and step with confidence into her destiny, because she had learned that leaders simply don’t  quit.