If Wonder Woman Was a Mother

If Wonder Woman was a mother, you would find cheerios in her hair underneath her perfect curls and raisons in her fingernails underneath her red nail polish.

If Wonder Woman was a mother, her curls wouldn’t be perfect, really. Her hair would be thrown together without a mirror or, perhaps, her Wonder Woman locks would be styled by her children with bright red, plastic barrettes. She would still look beautiful.

If Wonder Woman was a mother, her superpower would be to take the edge off pain simply by saying “I’m here.”

If Wonder Woman was a mother, her Wonder Woman Bracelets would have the power to fill a heart, to grow one’s faith in themself, to help someone feel safe and secure in their own skin.

If Wonder Woman was a mother, she would proudly acknowledge her imperfections- she would stand firmly on her two feet, her arms down by her sides with her palms facing forward, her head held high and she would look the world in the eye and say “Yes. This is Me! I am messy and uncertain and unsure of myself from time to time. And I am proud.”

If Wonder Woman was a mother, she would embody a tender heart underneath all of that bravery. She would be scared much of the time. Yes, scared. And she would keep on going anyway. Which would make her brave.

If Wonder Woman was a mother she would have a therapist. Obviously.

If Wonder Woman was a mother, she would model boundaries like a bad-ass. She would say no when she meant it. She would stop helping others when what she needed most was to help herself. She would fill herself up whenever she could so that she could continue to save the world. But she would know, people. She would know to put her oxygen mask on first.

If Wonder Woman was a mother, she would sit quietly every day, before she descended on the bad guys, and she would reflect. She would invite in her discomfort and become really familiar with it so that she never needed to run away from the shit that she didn’t like. Wonder Woman never runs away, of course, but that comes from some serious practice.

If Wonder Woman was a mother she would know the difference between a situation which needed accepting and a problem that needed fixing. This Wonder Woman would know how to reserve her energy. In this Wonder Woman’s world there aren’t really as many problems out there as one might think. The Wonder Woman’s biggest super power is acceptance.

If Wonder Woman was a mother, I would immediately re-establish my 1970’s obsession with super heroes. I would put all my eggs in her basket. I would feel forever safe and accepted and protected from the bad-guys (who often live in my head like the rest of you, but, well, she would figure that out too).

If Wonder Woman was a mother she would be all the more wonder-full.

Because she would be real.