# @adrimoench on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-01-29T11:52:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Trauma Informed Coach / Expanded States (@adrimoench) — https://gondola.cc/adrimoench

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1.29.25

Lunar New Year • Year of The Snake 🐍

When we shed what no longer serves us, we often take a deep look at the friction in our lives that play out in power dynamics between oppression, submission and internalization of our role in that system - in order to free ourselves from it. 

I recently started reading the book “We are not born Submissive” by Manon Garcia …

“La Boétie, in Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, is the first to wonder what makes the masses decide to obey a tyrant who dominates them when this tyrant only has power because the masses submit
to him. 

…Since the silencing of women is identified as one of the mechanisms of male domination, one of the elements of the feminist and marginalized struggle against patriarchal oppression is ensuring that women’s & marginalized voices are being heard and recognized as important, in opposition to the patriarchal system in which white men speak in place of women and marginalized peoples. In this respect, studying women’s submission is a feminist enterprise as it consists in listening to women’s experiences and taking them seriously, and in not deciding in advance that they are victims, guilty, passive, or perverse.

 …To respond to the question “What is a woman?” therefore implies shedding light on this intuitive passage, from “woman” to “alterity,” to “inferiority,” to “submission.” The
issue of woman’s submission is thus the central question of the book. It takes the form of a paradox: How is it possible to explain that women, who are human beings just as men are and hence should be able to make themselves subjects just as men do, are not free and are subjugated to men?”

~ Manon Garcia 

Snake shadow work I’ve been contemplating:
In what ways are we conditioned to subconsciously submit to others?
In what ways have I felt shame for standing up for yourself?
How have the systems around me upheld oppression and power dynamics?
What was I taught about submission that no longer rings true?

#labor #submissives #mentalhealth #patriarchy #dv #abuse #traumarecovery #consciousness #traumahealing #dharma #compassion #astrology #yearofthesnake #alchemy #women #newmoon #chatgpt #chatgptprompts #ai #women

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ai, chatgpt, yearofthesnake, chatgptprompts, alchemy, dv, newmoon, traumahealing, submissives, mentalhealth, labor, compassion, traumarecovery, abuse, astrology, dharma, women, consciousness, patriarchy

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