I’m done hiding.
This a transcript of a speech I gave a few years ago. You can watch it here.
I do not need to refer to myself as a goddess in order to connect to my feminine.
I do not need to call my avatar lioness in order to feel powerful.
I do not need to change my name to Light Sage Puffin in order to connect to my spirit.
I am Betsy Fucking Chasse
These are the words I awoke to one morning and rang through my being as I prepared to put my feet on my floor and live another day in hiding.
What keeps up from hiding?
What keeps us from claiming our birthright?
What holds us back from stepping into our most truest and highest selves?
What has made us hide out light, our strength, our wisdom, our innate abilities to create, and instead play by a set of rules that confines us to our bodies?
Eons of believing we should have shame around our power.
That we must always be the “Good” girl, the “Right” girl, that we must blend in to survive.
For centuries women have been beaten and killed in an attempt to silence our spirit.
And it’s time to let go of the rules we’ve been playing by.
It’s time to break free and finally claim YOU!
I am ready to claim me? Will you claim you?
How?
I am Betsy Fucking Chasse and I am FREE!
I do not need to refer to myself as a goddess in order connect to my feminine.
What does that mean “Connect to my Feminine?”
Does that mean I have to wear flowy skirts and big earrings?
Because that’s just not my “look”.
Is there an app for this “connecting to my feminine” Thing?
Is. My feminine in my breasts or my vagina?
Where is this feminine in my body and how do I connect to it?
I would drive myself mad in search of it.
We all carry feminine disempowerment from ancestral dna and shame.
We’ve lived long enough in this patriarchal paradigm and while I am extremely grateful for the feminist movement. It’s time for that battle to be over.
It’s time for us to bring back the masculine AND the Feminine, by each of us embodying both.By uniting the two and honoring their equal importance.
In case you were wondering the feminine means to attract opportunities to be open to possibilities, to find solutions, to be intuitive, to create, to dream…
To be masculine means to be direct, linear, forceful, single minded and a doer.
I am a mother of two, an award winning filmmaker, an author, and a damn good driver btw…
I am a dreamer and a doer.
And if that’s not connecting to my masculine and feline then seriously, tattoo a sword a=on my back and bedazzle my vajayjay, if that’s what it means to embody the feminine.
I can be feminine and still be me.
The feminine has been co-opted into a story about physical beauty, and women have become afraid to claim our true beauty, our true essence, the feminine… and to be Feminine means to unify.
I am Betsy Fucking Chasse and I embody my feminine.
I do not need to call myself lioness in order to feel powerful.
Powerful is often attributed to the masculine.
But that doesn’t mean that women don’t embody power.
Women can be both masculine and feminine, just as men embody both a well and it’s time we were taught to do just that.
I am powerful and I am finally ok with that.
I am no longer going to hide from it, or temper it so as not to frighten or offend anyone.
When I truly claim my power, I no longer need to exclaim it! I am learning to wield it instead of it wielding me. Turn up the volume or turn it down. That is my masculine listening to my feminine.
When I claim my power I can be empathetic and compassionate authentically.
Why?
Because when I truly claim my power I am no longer afraid of you claiming yours. In fact, it inspires me. That is my masculine and my feminine working together.
I have been called; Bossy, Controlling, Overly Self Confident, Pushy, Arrogant… I can go on and on here…
And “too Masculine”
And for most of my life I hated myself for being this way and in hating myself, I never embraced who I truly was.
And when we don’t embrace our true selves, our beautiful gifts and traits, we can’t wield them in the world, they wield us…they run the show.
And then we react, and we hurt ourselves and we hurt others.
I am Betsy Fucking Chasse and I am powerful and I embody y masculine.
I do not need to change my name to Light Sage Puffin to feel more connected to my spirit.
I am spirit embodied in human form.
There is nothing else. There is no separation between what is spiritual and what isn’t.
Even as there isn’t any separation between the masculine and the feminine within you.
It’s just that we often forget to embody both.
We create boxes for our lives to fit into. A work box, a home box, a relationship box, a spiritual box, a friends box, a masculine box, a feminine box…
And then we go through our day moving through our boxes and then we go to bed because we’re exhausted from moving though all those boxes, because that’s a lot of boxes! Who wouldn’t be exhausted!
When I remove all the walls from my boxes and allow everything to flow together, day by day, minute by minute, moment by moment, my life flows.
My eyes are wide open and there are no more blind corners. And there is no more feeling disconnected from any part of me.
When I can see that life, and everything in in this reality is spiritual I feel more connected to it. I feel more alive.
My life begins to have meaning, even in the mundane,. Why?
Because when I see my entire existence as a gift, a reflection of spirit, then I am more aware of what Ido here.
I am more present to life. And what thoughts I grab onto and the ones I let fade away… I become ore aware of the self, and the ego and who gets to rule the day.
When I see everything as spiritual, then I see all of me as spiritual. My powerful confident parts, my nurturing creative parts, and I see others a spiritual being living all of them as well.
I am Betsy Fucking Chasse and I am Spiritual
We have spent too long separating ourselves from our “selves”. We have lived too long feeling disjointed and unfulfilled. We have spent too long at war with each other. Men and women, men and men, women and women. the masculine and the feminine.
It’s no longer working that the masculine and the feminine being at odds. It’s time to bring everything together, and the other way to do that is to start with yourself.
Are you ready to claim all of you?
How will you fall in love with every aspect of your beautiful self and share it with the world?
We need everyone, conscious and aware of your power, connected to your heart, and present to your spirit.
I am ready.