Shannii Maree – Strong Without Realising
Life through the eyes of a woman who had no idea how strong she was becoming
Those who have known me a while know I reclaimed my name, Shantel, a few years back. Yet at retreat the ladies who I hadn’t met had trouble relating me with my name they told me. And I’ve noticed recently I’ve been Shannii again as much as Shantel. During my magical visit to Avebury we
If you haven’t seen – there has been a social experiment going around online asking if you would rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man, showing women saying they would feel safer with the bear than a man. There was a time where I would have chosen the bear too.
Creativity is a quality that we all have buried inside of us, one way or the other. It involves the invention of something new or the re-invention of something already existing to make it useful or interesting. Some people’s creative abilities are closer to the surface and one can easily see the manifestations of them.
This may be an Unpopular opinion but Femininity cannot be taught. At least not in the way I see most people thinking it can. It’s not wearing flowing dresses. It’s not wearing long flowy hair. It’s not wearing makeup. It’s not a certain way of speaking. It’s not a certain way of moving your body.
My husband told me that since I became a Glamma I have had a very short, sharp tongue when it comes to time wasting. And he made me realise he’s right. Yet when my granddaughter is in my vicinity I could ‘waste’ all the time in the world just watching her. And I think to
The place where things go wrong is when you assume the absolute of who a person is. It gives them no room to grow. It gives them no room to make mistakes. It gives them no room to make different choices to what you think they should. It stops you from being able to love
Women have always been the gatekeepers of humanity. If a man couldn’t provide and protect, he couldn’t reproduce. If a man was killed in a hunt other men took on the role as father and provider. Nowadays men are out here taking no responsibility for their own, let alone anybody else’s. And we, as women,
What do you want to achieve? In life? In business? In general? Before you actually set up, decide what you want to achieve with these things. Research shows that only 3% of people write down their goals, and on average these people earn 10 times those who don’t have goals. Plus research shows that people
Stay at home mum supported by partner/husband = ewww gross she must be so bored. Stay at home mum being a boss babe earning money – woooo baby celebrating you. What’s the difference? Why is one celebrated more than the other? Why such apparent despise for a woman who is supported in her journey by
Unexpected life changes. Anticipated transitions. Long, sleepless nights. What do these three things have in common? The ability to provoke one of the most haunting questions in the library of human introspectives: “What on earth am I going to do with the rest of my life?” While I can’t answer this question for anyone other
Shannii Maree - Strong Without Realising 