How To Dispel Shame in Sexuality

Anytime shame is brought to light and held in love and compassion, it loses its power.

In this episode, we’re discussing the shame around women’s sensuality and sexuality. We touch on the historical, cultural, and religious influences that have led women like ourselves and our clients to hold on to SO MUCH shame—shame that we might not even realize we’re holding. We believe that sensuality is part of natural essence as woman. It's part of our nature as creative, receptive, and abundant in pleasure beings. We share some of the questions and resources that have helped us in releasing shame and opening up to our sensuality—for no one but ourselves.

We discuss:

• The unhelpful beliefs about sexuality that we’re taught growing up
• How early civilizations viewed women’s sexuality—and where we lost that viewpoint along the way
• The connection between sexuality and vitality, health, and creativity
• Brené Brown’s distinction between guilt and shame
• The importance of establishing safety and using a trauma-informed approach when you begin to work with your sexuality
• John Wineland’s definition of open hearted
• Using the Sacred Sexuality Workshop inside the Sisters That Stray Collective as a starting place to re-wire your pathways to pleasure
• What a witness dance is
• Using a yoni egg initiation ceremony to heal your relationship to your 🐱

Our upcoming half-day retreat, The Liberated Woman, is all about giving you the permission to be fully in your sensual expression and to witness other women being in theirs. If you’re ready to work with your own sensuality in a safe container, please come join us! August 27th in Denver, CO.

Get your first 14 days free inside Sisters That Stray Collective –– here! This is our membership & online community of women devoted to reclaiming their right to pleasure and embodying their sensuality.  Ps. September's Focus Topic will be on The Seductress Archetype. ;)

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