Our experience in our body has been immersed in shame.

"In Christianity God came in a male body. Within the history and traditions of patriarchy, women’s bodies did not belong to themselves but to their husbands. We learned to hate our bodies if they didn’t conform to an ideal, to despise the cycles of menstruation—“the curse,” it was called. Our experience in our body has been immersed in shame.” ~Sue Monk Kidd

Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes