Beloved Woman: Softness, Strength And Being Seen

A short spoken-word listening practice for softening self-judgement and accepting your body. This poem helps with body shame, comparison, being seen, and the old stories of being not enough or too much. It is a spoken poem, not a guided meditation: listen once through, or return to it when you need a reminder of your innate worthiness and support with self-love of your feminine body. The piece honours softness that hides real strength, bare-faced bravery, and trusting your body enough to release limiting stories. It names the razor memories that still cut, and offers older, juicier stories than modern conditioning. Written and spoken by Nathan Maingard as a devotion to his wife, and now shared more widely for all women, and the men who love them.

Transcript

Beloved woman, I love your softness, Hiding strengths and secrets I've never heard or seen in plastic smiles or fantasies imprinted by an insane society. An insane society that lied when it sold me airbrushed illusions of what a woman really is. Thank you, Beloved woman, For healing me by bravely smiling widely, Meeting days bare-faced free, Growing hair everywhere, And most of all trusting your gorgeous body enough to let limiting stories about her go. All of you is a wild miracle. I'll say it again, All of you is a wild miracle. And my heart aches when I see the ways you still cut yourself sometimes on broken stories, Those hidden razor memories that hide in shadowed textures of your history. Beloved woman, I am here to share new, Juicy stories, Which are older than modern inadequacies and wiser than plastic cities' ignorant advertising of not enough or too much. You, Beloved woman, Mother to life and creator of all, Are B-E-A-utiful. And I, Man, Seed planter and light shiner, I'm honored to see you, To witness you. Every gliding smoothness, Proud hair, Enticing curve and musky secret. I love all of you, Beloved woman.

Reviews

A beautiful, raw and insightful poem of love.
Loved it!
Thank you Nathan 😊 🙏