Pleasure as Liberation
How can pleasure lead us to greater personal power?
On Disobedient Femmes I spoke with leading sexuality and embodiment coach, Grace Willow about the journey that led her to heal herself and then develop the tools and experiences to heal others.
Grace talks about:
Barely surviving a car accident where she suffered a traumatic brain injury, and a whole host of other problems that left her unable to care for her young daughter, work, or function in her daily life.
The energy healing that turned everything around and helped her to awaken and remember her own healing powers.
The importance of pleasure in being able to heal and to thrive
What embodiment means
Holding a higher vision and helping those she works with remember their true selves
Here are some of her insights:
“The mind is designed to figure out how to balance the checkbook, how to get you to the grocery store. It is not designed to inhabit this beautiful life that we have. The only way that we can really fully experience life is through our five senses.”
“We live in our bodies in the sense of dominating the planet and utilizing resources and consuming but we’re not in our bodies in the sense of the sacredness of life and enjoying, the scent of the flowers and using our bodies as the vehicle for spirit that they are.”
“This ancestral pattern passed down through our DNA has put upon us the idea that women’s value is inherently tied to our performance. That means getting married, having children, then on top of that it’s layered with the expectation that we are supermom super employee, super woman”
“Women have this really strange idea of pleasure being something they’re always striving toward.But they’re not worthy of it, they don’t deserve it. And they’re not good, not good enough for it. So pleasure is always out of reach.”
“We internalize the idea that sexuality is something that they do for the partner. It doesn’t matter if we’re lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual. polyamorous. It’s this idea that if I’m enjoying myself, it’s performative”
Listen to the full interview here:
