Michele Kambolis

“Hands down the biggest barrier to starting a regular practice is our own resistance to coming face-to-face with our mind. We doubt ourselves, worry that we somehow can’t meditate, tell ourselves that we just don’t have the time. I can honestly say, as long as you’re breathing, you do have enough time, you can sit still, and meditation isn’t just for yogis.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise - Everyday practices to strengthen your mind, body, and soul

“Women’s fatigue and stress go far beyond the need for better self-care, alone time, or support to get through the mounting daily tasks. Extra kale and yoga classes aren’t going to help women change the early conditioning that tells us how to fit into a society dominated by masculine values and ideals. And they certainly aren’t going to address the harder fact that women and girls in every country on our planet face discrimination, violence, financial and work inequity, and extraordinary challenges due to gender inequality. That’s why I say stress is a feminist issue.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise: Everyday Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Body, and Soul

“When an intention is rooted in clarity, and positive emotions like joy and enthusiasm, life can transform in miraculous ways.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise: Everyday Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Body, and Soul

“In Western society, women try to adapt, strengthen, and build resilience to cope, only to be pushed back into an inequitable cultural ecosystem that has us breathing fear. ... In truth, many women tell me they crave a wiser, more balanced way. Society’s win-at-all-cost culture of competition has hurt them dearly. Their stressed-out bodies are telling them no more, not one more day of this unsustainable pressure. They are no longer willing to be judged by the standards of healthism—which believes that those who work out regularly, stay slim, and eat right are more worthy—or to see it as the answer to the much bigger social and political problem of chronic stress.”
― Michele Kambolis, When Women Rise - Everyday practices to strengthen your mind, body, and soul