I AM Enough & I've Got The T-Shirt To Prove It!!

We women are convinced we are never enough. I sometimes wonder if we even perpetuate it ourselves by accepting the outdated patriarchal status quo drummed into us from our informative early years.

Mar 05, 2025

Some words from me for International Womens Day 2025.

A version of this was first published on my old blog at the beginning of 2023. It’s probably always going to be relevant, unfortunately.

The ‘AM’ in I Am Enough should be emphasised.

Why?

Because I really AM enough. And you reading this? YOU are enough.

As is every woman who declares it of themselves even without wearing the t-shirt.

When I designed the t-shirts you can see the women in the photos wearing, I made the AM in upper case, capital letters. To really emphasise it.

Trying saying it to yourself … I AM Enough.

We’re surrounded every day by the never ending message that as women we are convinced we are never enough. I sometimes feel that we probably perpetuate it ourselves by dutifully accepting the patriarchal status quo.

While we may accept less than previous generations of women I think we still have such a long way to go.

Heaven forbid if we went around mantra-ing to ourselves ‘we are enough’ … then we’d be deemed as too big for our boots, too strong, too loud, too much.

We really can’t win.

What’s wrong with a woman who believes in herself ?

I feel grateful that I’ve spent the last 39 years with a man that loves the ‘too much’ woman he lives with.

He calls me his quirky bird but that’s a different story ⤵

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But even he’s had to back me many times for being described as ‘too much’ because other men and sometimes women have called me out for speaking my mind. People who’ve gone all out to minimise me and stop me from feeling that I am enough. Trying to make me feel small.

Have you ever been made to feel ‘too much’ or ‘too small’?

I used to think not being enough meant I wasn’t a high achiever or hadn’t done everything I wanted to in my career. Even that I am not the body size I’d like to be. That it might make me feel enough and a better person if I was slimmer. Was I a good enough mum? Wow! What a lot of pressure we put on ourselves.

If I’m like this I know many, many women will be thinking along the same lines. It’s no wonder we don’t ever fully feel enough if we can’t even start from a position of self love and self worth.

Imposter Syndrome always springs to mind, doesn’t it? Yes, that old chestnut. The layer upon layer of shit we pile on ourselves so that we never give ourselves the opportunity to even feel enough.

Everything begins and ends in our mind.

Our mind is the strongest force we ever have to challenge.

There are better people than me that can write for longer and deeper about self empowerment but I can definitely fly the flag and wave the I AM Enough banner.

It should and could be a mantra;

I AM Enough.

I’m sure men must suffer from the same insecurities. Although when I asked Mr B once if he felt ‘enough’ he just looked at me quizzically as if it was laughable even for me to have asked him that question. He went on to say that he’d never thought at all about whether he was enough and wouldn’t be something he’d even entertain thinking.

Hmmm ….maybe we need to take a leaf out of Mr B’s book and not overthink it?

It’s too late. We’ve been conditioned for centuries.

Women have been conditioned by society to always feel they are less.

I talked about this in my Tedx Talk ⤵️

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I love to wear slogan t-shirts and so a couple of years ago I thought this was the perfect opportunity to actually wear the ‘I AM Enough’ mantra myself. Wearing it almost makes me feel it more.

I designed the t-shirts you can see these amazing women wearing in the photos originally for International Women’s Day 2022.

I donated some of the early profits to a couple of different women’s charities. Then I set up my own not for for profit social enterprise in September 2022. I had a small launch event on World Menopause Day 2022 and then everything came to a halt with my brother’s death.

I’ve found it hard to get back into many things while I’ve been on the grief rollercoaster but my light started to come back slowly last year in 2024. I’ve achieved so much since then. I’m allowed to say I’m proud of myself.

I have a dream where I’m part of a massive crowd of women all wearing the tshirts and each declaring from the tops of their voices