Sunday Journaling Prompt: What Makes an Empress? 📔🖋️✨

There are so many archetypes, examples, and role models throughout history… Who reminds you of an Empress? And why?

Helen Mirren as Empress Catherine The Great. Don’t you just want to know what shampoo she uses?

By the time you reach midlife, you come to know so many women further along in the heroine’s journey—they seem like Empresses in their own right. Thinking about them now, who would you ‘grow up’ to be? And why?

Maybe it’s an amalgamation of women that appeals to you. Maybe you are writing your own very singular heroine’s journey.

What makes you an Empress?

Helen Mirren always strikes one as the quintessential Empress. Fearless, yet still so relentlessly emotionally available. For my own part, my big, momentous entry into adult womanhood was meeting Nora Ephron… She was giving me an award, but she