Bonjour love,
I have spent a surprising amount of my life trying to become smaller.
Pretending to be a woman who’s just “not that hungry,” followed by a soft chuckle and a gaze down at my feet whenever someone offered more food? Check.
Being in a constant internal dialogue about the fact that I wasn’t a tiny size 4 anymore, feeling absolutely terrible about physically taking up more space with my curves? Check.
Downgrading my authentic ambitions, my goals for success, for money, for more, out of fear that wanting too much would make someone else feel bad? Check.
Pretending I didn’t need a deeper sexual connection with myself and my partner for a more fulfilled, more joyful life? Check.
We have spent decades, centuries even, toning down our appetites. Eating less than we want. Wanting less than we feel. Shrinking our desires down to a size that makes everyone around us comfortable.
Women with Dangerous Appetites is about what happens when we stop.
This issue is about letting yourself fully want what you want. Whether that’s a more sexually fulfilled life, more love, eating until you’re actually satiated, more money, more pleasure, more of whatever lights you up inside. Because here’s the thing: the moment a woman stops pretending she doesn’t want what she wants, she becomes, by some people’s definition, dangerous. Less controllable. Less palatable. Less easy to manage.
This issue is about owning our appetites fully, in every single area of our lives. And the promise is simple: just watch what happens to your life when you do.
So whenever you notice that little voice telling you to look smaller, be smaller, think smaller, act smaller, come back here. Come back to this. As a reminder that you, too, are a woman with a dangerous appetite.
With love,
Sabrina