That’s what I always wondered about.

In fact that’s where I felt most of my difficulties in life came from.

Growing up?

I didn't have girlfriends.
Or sisters.
Or aunties.

I didn't have a circle
of female role models
around me to learn from.

Now systems in need
are remarkably clever.

Particularly when it comes to
what they need the most.

Most assume we become seekers
of the very thing that's missing.

But the truth of it is:

We more often become
crafters of the stories
that speak to being
better off without.

Maybe this is you too.
You wonder what
a sisterhood is even like.

Where are these resourceful women?
And how would they even
begin to support one another?

But maybe…

That feels more like a fairytale
than the story you tell about
being good enough on your own.

Want to know what changed it all?

I was on a bus ride alone one day.
My phone rang.

"Is this Michelle Baty?"

I was dead silent.

"My name is Hattie Boydle
and I'm calling from
the Sports Model Project."

I didn't know Hattie Boydle.
And I definitely didn't know
anything about the
Sports Models Project.

I thought
I should definitely hang up.

But she seemed kinda nice.
Like the REAL kind of nice.

And suddenly,
I felt some kind of lonely
I hadn't noticed before.

And I just kept
talking...

Now I'm not sure what I'd be writing.
Or to whom I'd be speaking
on this day.

If I'd held to the stories
I'd always told,
and I stayed safe
in the life I'd always lived…

I might still be asking
myself the questions
that were always meant
to be held by a sisterhood .

On this day,
EVERY day,
I celebrate a world
of resourceful women
powerfully supporting
one another.

My sisters have taught me
that protections are far less about
what's happened than they are
about what's missing.

And that it was never really
a question of celebration.

But simply,
That I should never
have held it alone.

To you my fellow sister:

There is a space for
that lonely place
within you.

Would you come fly with me
at SMP?

Click the link and book a call with our team.

It will change your life.

Love,
@michelle_baty_
SMP Neuro-Psych