Feminine and masculine archetypes are a part of every human, and only relate to gender insofar as how we base social expectations on sex assigned at birth. In an archetypal sense, any gender can have a more dominant feminine or masculine, but when the two aren't in moderate balance, suffering may occur. 

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We can see this at systemic and societal levels in Western cultures, where masculine qualities such as acquisition, authority, competition, aggression, structure, consumption, material, and action are rewarded, and feminine qualities such as empathy, imagination, community, creativity, nature, intuition, vulnerability, and stillness are dismissed as weak or a waste of time. This collective rejection unconsciously reinforces individual rejection of our most intimate feminine qualities as assimilating to a masculine-dominated culture becomes necessary for survival.

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The feminine supports the parts of ourselves that tend to our emotional, relational, and spiritual wellbeing, historically overlooked components of our health.

 

The Hungry Feminine seeks to revive those qualities and repair what's been damaged in its long-standing repression, not to the extermination of the masculine but in collaboration with it, so that we may become whole again.

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My therapy practice is implicitly grounded in the feminine, integrating masculine tools when useful. This may look like a compassionate space for you to come as you are, express your emotions, explore how they live in your body, invite in unconscious material, apply curiosity to dreams, myth, and art, and utilize grounding techniques or thought-modification tools to make safe the exploration of the unknown.

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Learn more about feminine and masculine.