[Lioness]

Originally Posted by ssandra

Owning your own body is true power.
Doing what you want with your own body is true power.
Having and living through your own world view instead of others´ is true power. Being able to listen to your own gut feeling on what you want to do, regardless of what people will say or how they will judge you is true power. Not trying to fit in, for the sake of fitting in, is true power.

But CroMagna wants to return to stripping precisely to impress others and fit in with certain people's perception of beauty and power!

Finding and living your own happiness is true power.
Following your own path in live, and not the other sheep, is true power..

There is truth in this, but I feel uneasy with giving the young lady this message alone because I think she came here for advice from those with experience and not necessarily a general approval of whatever anyone feels they should do. IMHO I think she's wasting her time and her degree by falling back to such a superficial enterpriise and I believe she would be better served by challenging herself a bit and finding out why it is so important to her to be considered "hot" or a "goddess" by others.

Do what you want to do with your life, and be happy doing it. If it is stripping or something else, only you know.

If you were happy stripping why not return to it? It might not ultimately be what you want to do with your life, but it will give you a breathing pause of happiness in which you can figure out the rest of it. Good luck with it and enjoy life. That is what it is for!

I will concede that the OP may eventually find what she is seeking by returning to her former gig and figuring things out from there. However, and I don't mean this direspectfully, pursuing happiness or power for it's own sake seems to me a bit childish. I could be happy surfing the internet and eating ice cream and chips all day, but would it really be good for me and more importantly - is this truly my purpose? These are the ideas I hope she will think about.