the love of a good woman...

I am always up for celebrating women—encouraging them, lifting them up, honoring their contributions.

But this year I nearly lost my drive for it due to the headlines featuring female-enablers of nefarious human injustices—pure midwifery to grievous abuses of power.

There. My secret is out: I’m a poor audience for performative virtue and celebrity worship.

I’m more enamored by the deeper truth that there’s much to celebrate about women who have dared the arduous ascent to their own becoming.

Throughout history our record is astonishing. Women have shaped literature, poetry, science, civic life, technology, architecture, politics, and the arts. The list of innovators, thinkers, builders, and visionaries is dizzying. They are true Titanesses, all of them.

So how do we begin the celebration? Let’s skip the applause and begin with the climb. Not the performative one, the ancient destination of trials that persist for each of us on our ascent to becoming.

The Greek allegory of Psyche and Aphrodite comes to mind—the story about a woman’s journey toward autonomy and individuation. It’s a journey every heroine we admire has taken.

In the myth, Psyche is given a series of impossible tasks by Aphrodite. They’re not punishments so much as initiations—tests that forge the soul. The first task is sorting seeds, a lesson in discernment: the ability to bring order to life’s overwhelming possibilities.

Next comes gathering the golden fleece, which requires courage and strategy—learning to assert oneself without losing one’s essential nature.

Then filling the crystal flask, which asks Psyche to approach powerful waters with care. It’s a test of emotional intelligence: how to engage the flow of life without being consumed by it.

Finally comes retrieving the casket from Hades—the descent. The ultimate trial where Psyche must learn boundaries, resist distraction and pity, and stay the course of her own destiny.

These same tasks persist today. Every woman encounters them in her own way as we negotiate the tension between external validation and inner worth.

eu2be was born for facing and conquering these milestones by caring for our most visible boundary—our skin. It’s our vessel to engage the journey within, excavating that shy but concrete, transformative presence: beauty.

And this is how the love of a good woman is forged, felt, offered, and celebrated.