What happens when choosing yourself becomes an act of courage?
Women are often taught to be accommodating before they are taught to be self-protective, agreeable before authentic, and endlessly available before attentive to their own needs.
Women Flourish: Radical Self-Regard - September 2026 explores what changes when women begin to see self-regard not as selfishness, but as a foundation for a meaningful life.
This issue brings together perspectives on psychology, identity, embodiment, culture, creativity, leadership, digital life, healing, and lived experience. It explores the psychology of self-abandonment, the rebuilding of self-trust, the neuroscience of self-compassion, body image and boundaries, the expectations surrounding the "good woman," and the power of speaking and advocating for oneself.
The issue also looks at self-worth in the age of digital comparison, creative expression as a way of reclaiming identity, and the experiences of women navigating selfhood and leadership in maritime spaces.
Inside, readers will discover:
- The Psychology of Self-Abandonment
- The Neuroscience of Self-Compassion
- The Body as Home
- Boundaries Without Guilt
- The Good Woman Myth
- Writing Yourself Back Into the Story
- The Power of Self-Advocacy
- Confidence Without Performance
- Self-Worth in the Age of Comparison
- Digital Boundaries as Mental Wellness
- Women, Selfhood & Distance at Sea
- Stories of Returning to Self
- Women Who Chose Themselves
- The Practice of Self-Regard
Across these pages, women from different cultures and lived experiences reflect on a question that can be deceptively difficult:
What would you choose if you trusted yourself a little more?
Radical Self-Regard is an invitation to listen inward, question inherited expectations, honour your boundaries, and make room for a relationship with yourself that does not depend on constant approval.
Because choosing yourself is not turning away from the world.
It is returning to it as yourself.
