Ms. Sharmilee Kapur
29-Jan-2025
Understanding the pressing need and importance of Feminine Wellness
Shakespeare rightly said, “Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners." This ‘will of ours’ refers to a woman’s need and the will to prioritise self-help and feminine wellness. Feminine wellness, in the broader sense, would be wellness that is tailored to the needs and wants of women. It would encompass annual health check-ups, healing holidays, getaways with downtime, hurkle-durkling (a trip that focuses on wellness and rest), and daily social support groups.
Women, in every sense, are the ideal consumers or recipients of wellness! Here’s why…
1. Women tend to have healthier habits, and they ensure these habits are woven into the whole household!
2. Women have a natural affinity for wellness due to their biological experiences, emotional awareness, and nurturing instincts. Mental wellness, often overlooked the world over, is also something women seek and adopt readily as almost second nature.
3. Studies show that depression is about 50% more common among women than among men, and they thus need their wellness to be prioritised.
4. Most of the time, it is women who nurture and build social relationships; wellness-focused women will then seek out like-minded individuals and groups. It is these very connections that support the family over time.
5. We know that women spend more time on childcare and domestic chores and thus need to be well enough to be able to take care of the needs of others.
6. Women are also more prone to hormonal imbalances at various stages of their life, right from puberty and childbirth to menopause (reproductive, sexual, and mental health) and need wellness through their lives.
7. In a 2013 study of happiness and gender, women worldwide reported higher levels of life satisfaction than men but reported more daily stress (valid for countries where gender rights are not compromised). This bad stress, if left unchecked, can manifest into chronic inflammatory conditions and auto-immune disorders.
(Sharmilee Kapur)
The fact is that when the women in our lives consume wellness, this will percolate to everyone in their lives. Studies also show that men need women more than women need men, as women can find other women to confide in and lean on but men tend to become more lonely and anti-social without women in their lives!
Hence, feminine wellness is crucial to everyone, whether you are a woman or a man (who has women in his life). It would also be fair to say that feminine wellness is the beacon of hope for all of us and by ensuring the women in our lives receive the wellness they need and deserve, we enable ourselves to bask in their happiness and healing energy!
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