I woke up, on a regular Friday morning, with a cheeky energy. The only time I remember feeling this kind of energy, was during a hypnotherapy session. The Voice that answered my therapist’s questions sounded very much like the voice that came out of me Friday morning.
I like that voice. It feels very much like me. Like the true essence of myself, maybe even an energy I had as a child, before all the societal and familial conditioning squashed it. It’s the voice I’m hoping to reclaim as I write here.
The word cheeky, is defined as, boldly rude, impudent, or disrespectful in usually a playful or appealing way. The good girl in me doesn’t want to be described in that manner and yet it felt so good to let that part of me out.
I feel like we need to work with that definition a little bit. Can you be playful and appealing while being rude, impudent and disrespectful? There’s a paradox here. Those things don’t seem to match up.
To be impudent is to disregard others with an arrogant, cocky, contemptuous attitude. I feel like this has the mark of the patriarchy all over it, you know that stay sweet admonition and expectation of ancient institutions that women have enmeshed in their DNA. Being described as cheeky was a way of keeping us oppressed.
Perhaps, like the word BITCH, we need to own the word CHEEKY and live in a space where we speak our minds, disregard the opinions of others and playfully show up in the world with an energy that is both bold and kind.
I want that and I want that for all of us.
Let’s be bold and kind. Let’s be cheeky!!
May it be so.
Stepping away from the pulpit now…..
Bold and kind! Yes!!
Probably "cheeky" comes from the grin one has when being such, but the image that comes to mind is turning around and showing someone my butt! Now, that's cheeky!
In order to be wisely cheeky, one needs to feel safe to say what they want. I think many of us cheeky ones alive now have too many "memories" (whether bodily memories or just imaginative, or perhaps past lives stuff) of being burned as witches. I know I do. Also, I want to tease, but not really hurt anyone's feelings or put anyone in too awkward of a position. But the ingrained fear is real, I think.