08/03/2026
Today I celebrate women. But not in the comfortable way social media usually does.
I work with women every day. I sit across from them in therapy rooms, in boardrooms, in supervision meetings. I hear the stories people don’t post online. The pressure. The expectations. The exhaustion of trying to be everything at once.
And something has become very clear to me.
Many women are not tired because they are weak.
They are tired because the world quietly expects them to carry more than anyone admits.
I was raised by a mother who loved fiercely and gave endlessly. The kind of love that holds families together without asking for applause. Only when you grow up do you realise how much emotional work that actually takes.
Today I am in a relationship with a woman who leads. A woman with vision, intelligence, and strength. The kind of woman people admire in public. But what people rarely see is the constant balancing act behind that strength. Leadership, expectations, responsibility, relationships. The invisible weight of it all.
Working with women professionally has shown me something else too. Many of them are praised for being strong.
But strength often means they had to carry pain quietly.
Hold families together.
Absorb other people’s emotions.
Be resilient when nobody asked how they were actually doing.
And the strange thing is this.
The same society that celebrates strong women is often uncomfortable when women stop being accommodating. When they set boundaries. When they speak directly. When they refuse to shrink.
So today I don’t just celebrate women.
I also ask a question that might make some people uncomfortable.
Why do we admire women’s strength so much… yet still build a world that constantly tests it?
If you were raised by a strong woman, love a strong woman, work with strong women, or are one yourself, you probably know exactly what I mean.
