My Grandma Would have been 115 Years Old This Year.

My grandma would have been 115 years old this year.

She was born in 1915, in imperial China.
At just 5 years old (the traditional age for foot binding), she was tied to a chair.

Not by a stranger.
Not by a tyrant.
But by her own mother.
A woman who believed she was preparing her daughter for social acceptance, a good life, and marrying well.

But in that moment, it was my great-grandfather who heard her little girl's screams and ran to her rescue.

He said to his wife:
'We've got to spare her! We wouldn’t want her to suffer what you had to suffer for decades.'
That one act of defiance changed the course of my grandmother’s life.

My grandma always told me how grateful she was to her father for the rest of her life.

A century later, my family's story reminded me:
🌻 Systems change when one person says no more.
🌻 Healing happens when we break inherited patterns.
🌻 Empowerment begins when we listen, hear, and choose with intention.
🌻 Wise and courageous men understand and promote women's wellbeing.

This is not just a story of my family.
This is a story of our life.

We inherit pain, but we carry power.
We can be the generation that unbinds what no longer serves us.
That says yes to equity, yes to wholeness, yes to each other.

Let us turn stories like these into a movement:
⚡ One of radical compassion,
⚡ Intergenerational healing,
⚡ And women uplifting women, loudly, together.
⚡️Let us team up with all the wise and courageous men.

Who are you becoming, because someone before you broke the pattern?

And what will you set free?

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