Where Does Real Confidence Come From?

I know nothing about football. I don’t even really like it but I found myself tuning into the final of the Women’s Euros thoroughly engrossed.

Not by the game itself, but by the sheer power and beauty of the twenty-two women on the pitch, and their managers.
All of them in their element. Unapologetically themselves.

No makeup.
No fancy hairstyles.
No smiling if they didn’t feel like it.

Their strong female traits shining through like compassion as they naturally checked in with each other after a tackle, and responsibility as they owned their mistakes if one was made.

I realised we don’t often witness women on the screen in this way.

We live in a society so quick to make women question the way they look, act, and feel. Why else is the majority of plastic surgery and beauty advertising aimed at us?

So to sit on the sofa, side by side with my eleven-year-old daughter, watching so many women kick ass, fully present in their bodies, owning their power was unbelievably refreshing and thrilling.

I won’t go so far as to say I’m now a football fan.
But I am definitely a fan of the Lionesses.

They’re showing a whole generation of women that a strong body, a steady mind, and self belief can take us anywhere.

What could you do this week to embrace your inner Lioness? What truly lights you up and helps you step into you? The real, raw, unapologetic you?!

Enjoy!

Thank you for being here. Sending love and kindness,

Laura x