Are you a girl's girl?: Women supporting women is a choice
buzzz worthy. . . It's International Women's Day I am thinking about sisterhood. I hosted my first women's summit 10 years ago. The topic I addressed was the "Spiritual Doula--Expanding the Circle of Sisterhood." I found it amusing that God would call me to this particular task because I clicked superbly with men--in fact, more so than with women. Oftentimes, women who did not already know me made assumptions about me and treated me like an outcast. I was friendly to anyone I'd meet naturally, yet I hesitated to expand my sisterhood circle. For me, the rejection I'd felt became the reason I obeyed the tug in my spirit and created an event that would address the void in communal interaction among women I perceived. My heart towards the necessity of having relationships with women changed after I gave birth. I had a doula for the birth of my first born and it was a wonderful experience. My doula only attended to my specific needs rather th...