What is this, Woman?

A March Writing Prompt from The Get Well

Sit down somewhere quiet. Maybe with tea. Maybe with wine. Maybe with nothing but the sound of the house settling around you.

And ask yourself honestly:

What does it mean to be a woman?

Not the answer you were taught. Not the one that sounds good. The real one — the one that lives in your body, in your history, in the quiet moments when no one is watching and you are just you.

Write about the struggles that are uniquely ours. The ones we don't always name out loud — the exhaustion of being everything to everyone, the grief of dreams deferred, the particular weight of moving through a world that has never quite been built for us.

Write about the fears that came with the body we were born into. The ones nobody warned us about and everybody understands without saying. Write about what it feels like to take up space — or to shrink from it.

And then — write about the gifts. The ones forged in the fire of all of it. The intuition that borders on supernatural. The capacity to hold pain and joy in the same breath. The friendships that feel like coming home. The way we find each other.

Write about the joys that are ours alone — the ones only another woman will understand without explanation.

Write about what surprised you about being a woman. What broke you open. What you would never trade.

There is no wrong answer here. There is no polished version required. This is not for anyone else.

This is you, telling the truth about what this is.

What is this, woman?

Write it down. 🌿