"I AM HUNGRY! I yearn for deep, authentic, honest communication. I long for a real sisterhood and I struggle with a sense of deep frustration over the ‘nice’ ‘good girl’ top dressing that many women seem to insist on putting on at least some of their interactions, is it for fear of not being liked or approved of? I want be in a sisterhood where we champion each others strengths and help each other to work positively and gently with our failings; I want a sisterhood that will enjoy lightly laughing with me when I get it wrong, and that really is laughing WITH ME AND NOT AGAINST ME. I want to be in a sisterhood that encourages and challenges me to be the best I can be; were we celebrate our successes and commiserate with one another when we fall short, but not place each other in a broth of victim hood. I want to be part of sisterhood where we can bring all of ourselves, our richness and our poverty, our depth and our shallows, our love and our lost-ness . . . our hearts and our heads, our grace and our grit, I am ready . . . will you join me" 

My story of Sisterhood | by an Anonymous TreeSister