A woman in charge allows a country to breathe mindfully?

Hmm…Liz Truss, Giorgia Meloni

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Having a woman in charge of a country doesn’t always mean the automatic application of healing and centring techniques that allow the nation to slow down, breathe mindfully, listen to itself, ‘feel’ what’s going on and focus its energy on holistic growth.

Imagine, Liz Truss as Britain’s prime minister, come September 5.

Imagine, Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s prime minister, some 20 days later, which is say after the September 25 general election.

Can there be less healing leaders?

(N.B.: That’s a rhetorical question and you are not allowed to list the following: Vladimir Putin, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Viktor Orban and the rest of that stress-inducing gang of current leaders. And you can’t list former leaders who induced fight-or-flight responses either , such as Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte.)

Consider Liz Truss, 47, the UK’s foreign secretary and wannabe Maggie Thatcher, complete with pussy bow blouses and photo ops astride a tank. N…