As girls we’re told what we should and shouldn’t be. Girls should act a certain way. Girls should look a certain way. Girls should speak up but not too loudly. And there’s a million other things the world says girls “should” be. The only one thing they should be is free.

Our children deserve more than silence. While we are busy in our homes ‘focusing on our family,’ the world they will walk into one day will surely be one that we never wanted for them.

I need to have it all figured out before I start anything. That’s a lie I’ve held onto for a very long time. This whole series is in defiance of that very lie. I don’t have to be perfect and neither do you. I don’t have this all figured out. We just need to be willing to take one step forward at a time and when we go backward be easy on ourselves.