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Maraya Karena

Maraya Karena

Maraya Karena is a Portland, Oregon-based writer, counselor, and consciousness researcher specializing in relationships, codependency, and feminine empowerment, featured as a guest on the Women Waken podcast.

Sep 25, 2026

7:27
if you really,
7:27
you see women in these draining relationships and they look like they are being fed on by a parasite, right? Like ashen and sunken and listless.
7:37
And I was lying in the basement, huddled up in blankets, watching YouTube videos.
7:43
And I encountered this term decentering men.
7:46
And it's crazy because it was one of those moments where the clouds part and like someone turns the freaking lights on.
7:54
And I just realized that all of these things that I had been doing throughout my life that didn't go along with this kind of main narrative of being this like amazing, badass, feminist, la, la, la woman.
8:07
could all be described by this phenomenon of centering men.

30 MINS LATER

37:40
And it

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