In our last episode, we talked about this overarching, deep, insatiable hunger for nurturance, guidance, and presence. So many of us desperately needed that growing up, but we lacked the mothering or community that was necessary for us to learn how to nurture ourselves. As women, we often struggle with the fundamental feeling that we are not good enough or we are not doing enough. We operate and behave from what we have learned from previous generations or society, and it puts us on a deeply ingrained autopilot of the things we believe that we should be doing.  With the influence of mothers on social media, we may find ourselves feeling the pressure to have children. When we are operating in a state of masculine energy, social media can put us in a state of competition. When we see other mothers having babies, we might feel like we should too. Instead, we should be reflecting inward and asking ourselves if we truly want to be a mother. Tune in to this episode to hear more about the needs we have for community, guidance, and nurturing and how we can find our way back to our feminine energy by focusing on being present and focusing on what truly matters.  In this episode: [00:35] We continue our investigation into the deep burnout we find ourselves in and what’s driving this intense need to stay in our masculine energy. [02:14] So many women have an insatiable hunger for nurturance, and we lack the patterns or behaviors that are necessary to nurture ourselves. [05:20] Women lack the community that we need for guidance and nurturance that then teach us how to nurture ourselves, and it is a huge gap in our society. [11:04] Generational ideas and beliefs warp our sense of reality and must be reprogrammed to what is true. [16:20] Our communities are shaped by the women that we are seeing on social media who are leading extremely shallow lives and do not deserve to influence our sense of reality. [20:52] The roles that our hormones play in our physiology when we are in an active state of masculine energy. [26:05] Living within the rhythms of your body allows you to feel fulfilled and in alignment. [27:16] We need to seriously ask ourselves if we want to be a mother or if we are choosing to have children because we feel that we are supposed to. [30:48] Stop glorifying shallow womanhood and stop allowing social media to shape your perception of yourself. [34:16] How do we come into our feminine energy? [38:00] Nurturing someone or something else can help bring you out of the hyper-focus on yourself. [40:13] Showing up present and focused on what matters can make a huge hormonal impact on our physiology. Links and Resources: Episode 5: Unleash the Rhythm: How to Respect and Optimize Your Unique Physiology Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel: https://amzn.to/3REryfY* Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton: https://amzn.to/45bpW0j* *Some of the links above are affiliate Have Sunday tea with me! Sign-up for my Sunday newsletter where I share what’s on my brain from the nutritional to spiritual: https://www.jessicaashwellness.com/email-subscribe. Ready to go deeper? Learn how to nourish yourself in a way that respects your unique female physiology in my signature Fully Nourished course: https://www.jessicaashwellness.com/fully-nourished Join the Fully Nourished community! Follow me @jessicaashwellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicaashwellness/