Owning Your Inherent Worthiness BY CHRISTY WHITMAN

** This article first appeared in the August / September 2013 issue of Aspire Magazine.

From the time we were old enough to watch our first fairy tale, we as females have been inundated with ideas about what makes us truly worthy – of love, of the metaphoric white castle, and of having all our happilyever-after dreams come true.

Even if the message is hidden between the lines, we get it loud and clear: the girl who wins the kingdom is dutiful, self-sacrificing, and almost always surrounded by people( including herself) who don’ t recognize or appreciate her worth.

Thanks to the good fortune of being kissed by a handsome prince or having a foot dainty enough to slide into a tiny slipper, her destiny