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Today’s blog post is on What is a Strong Woman? The Profile of Female Strength. We know a lot of strong women in our lives but what separates them from your average woman?
Are they disciplined? Strong willed? Outspoken? If we had to create a profile of them, how would it turn out?
The problem is that society romanticizes strength but also misunderstands it.
Strength has been confused with hardness, burnout, or loudness. True strength is quiet, regulated, feminine, and self-possessed.
This blog post will argue for a version of strength that isn’t a smaller man or a woman with male characteristics.
Let us find the nuances of feminine strength also based on how these women balance out their feminine and masculine energies.
The Evolution of Female Strength
Historically, women’s strength was survival-based, invisible, or punished. It evolved into what it is today but that is not without any trials or tribulations.
Today’s strength is chosen, intentional, and self-defined. It is based on choosing a certain discipline and fervently choosing to self actualize in that domain.
It is about breaking glass ceilings, making large amounts of money and being our own providers.
In this blog post, I introduce the idea of “self-built women”: those who lift, train, heal, and rise.
What is the Core Identity of a Strong Woman?
In this section, let us have a deep exploration of traits grounded in psychology and lived experience. These traits are possessed about strong women, the ones we know, seek to emulate and wish to deepen our understanding of.
These women are:
- Self-possessed: she knows who she is and what she allows. This is kind of like having boundaries but it mainly goes to show how in control she is over her own narrative and doesn’t let people define her in any way.
- Emotional discipline: she regulates her emotions rather than reacts.
- Self-trust: she keeps the promises that she’s made to herself. She is not mistrustful over her inner resources nor her abilities.
- Boundaries: she is loving but does not possess porous boundaries. There is a way you can love this woman and the terms are not overly strict, you just can’t walk all over her.
- Intentional living: she thinks long-term and invests in herself. She invests in her health, her personal development and her wealth.
The Physiology of Strength
Resilience is one of the top determinants of success. How does training builds psychological resilience? Training helps us adapt to adversity by increasing our pain tolerance and threshold.
The more that we can sustain with weights, endurance or any other type of physical skill, the better we are at handling circumstances that we could face of similar proportions.
Let us go over the neuroscience of discipline: it starts with dopamine, habit loops and then identity shifts.
Let us discuss hormonal balance, longevity, and vitality which is how strong bodies age slower. Click here for access to the full article!
Through strength training, we basically reduce the level of inflammation our body has which protects our already existing collagen. We also create Myokines which keep us young at a cellular level.
Lifting weights also makes us as women feel safer in own bodies. We start to trust our strength and physiological makeup much more.
A 15-week strength-training study by Tucker & Mortell (1993) indicates that women who lift weights develop significantly better body image and emotional trust in their physical abilities compared to non-lifters.
Softness as Feminine Strength
What is strength when it comes to using our feminine power? First, what is femininity? It is an energy, an essence, a way of being that is not necessarily based on physiology nor body structure.
Femininity isn’t dresses, high heels or makeup. It’s an energy of rest, surrender, light but also dark, sensitivity and empathy.
It is concerned with coexistence, giving birth, creation but also destruction. Feminine energy describes being rather than doing.
While the man does, the woman receives. This is the ultimate polarity that men and women thrive and benefit from.
What is soft power? It is about calm, grace, emotional intelligence and composure. It also existed within a feminine framework.
Strong women are gentle because they’re regulated instead of reactive. Being gentle is a strength that softness and feminine energy gives light to.
Softness can therefore be seen as a luxury earned through inner stability.
Instead of harshness powder or force, feminine energy teaches us that empathy and being soft, we can truly become masters of our own destinies
The Cultural Power of Strong Women
Strong women shift social dynamics around them. They do so because they are polarizing. You either are inspired by them or they trigger you in some way.
In a Middle Eastern context, women reclaim their physical and emotional autonomy through strength training.
Strength then acts as a rebellion without chaos. And the strongest women are mostly born from chaos and toxic circumstances.
The Weight Room
Gyms are places where women learn agency, boundaries, and self-respect. Training alone builds the highest form of self-trust.
Furthermore, lifting helps women process emotions, anxiety, and past manipulation. I remember truly recovering from some pretty bad PTSD and just transmuting all that pain into training for a killer physique.
Training therefore also acts as a ritual rather than a task.
The Emotional Composition of a Strong Woman
A strong woman handles pain, heartbreak, and uncertainty in a unique way. She doesn’t self destruct as a result of it, instead, she transmutes it to become her highest and best self.
Breaking down is what the majority of women would do in the face of adversity or conflict, strong women, on the other hand reinvent themselves.
They invest their resources into personal development and improving their situations. Their hardship becomes a chance for a new beginning. Pain is equal to fuel and they become energized.
Strength also becomes emotional sobriety where there is no drama, no chaos and no self-abandonment.
Strong women don’t need validation, they create it internally. They don’t seek applause, praise or status, they simply are and the result of that is the reality which they live.
The Strong Woman vs. the Performed Strong Woman
What version of strength do we know? Do we know strength as a performance or true raw strength?
The real strong woman is quiet with her confidence and temperament speaking for itself. She is self-focused and disciplined as well. She’s not keeping up with the joneses, instead, she is assured in who she is as a woman.
The other woman is a social media stereotype. She is the loud, attention-focused, aesthetic-only woman.
She is primarily focused on attention and likes via the modality of loudness equals strength, aggression equals character. None of which is true.
You can identify the difference through discernment, which one through their actions is strong and which one through the persona?
How to Become a Strong Woman
Here are five actionable streps towards being a strong woman:
- Build a consistent training routine.
- Strengthen emotional boundaries.
- Practice self-trust through micro-habits.
- Protect your nervous system.
- Make long-term decisions from your highest self.
Conclusion
A strong woman is one who is soft, grounded, disciplined, respected, and deeply aligned.
Strength is not a personality nor is it a flex, it is a life practice. It neither erases nor removes a woman from her essence, it simply protects it from harm.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this blog post on What is a Strong Woman? The Profile of Female Strength, please let me know what you thought about it in the comments section below!
Comments (3)
I love this breakdown. Always considered myself a strong woman but now I feel like a strong woman and it is, in part, up to knowing what I can handle and the confidence I possess as I walk through life.
Thank you! God bless you, may you keep getting stronger and leaning more into that self assurance and confidence.
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