After years of chronic physical and emotional unhealth and every medical approach I could get my hands on, I started following the breadcrumbs of embodiment and meditation that kept nudging me. Those breadcrumbs lead me to the intersections of spirituality, self-realization, and somatic healing. The further I explored that vast depth of knowledge and the more I practiced, I watched my entire life begin to change, first in very subtle ways and then in profound ones.

Arduous mental and physical health conditions I had been struggling with for as long as I could remember started to disappear, seemingly like magic. My relationship to my body and my sexuality burst into a delicious ecstasy that was previously totally foreign to me. My capacity to give and receive love expanded. My art got better, my sex got better, my relationships got better, and my body reached a baseline health and comfort that I had once thought impossible. In short, I learned how to actually love myself, not just as a Pinterest concept but as an embodied state of being.

Like any state of being, this requires daily practice. It requires not just intellectual understanding but also physical application. So, it is my offering to you (should you choose to accept it) to ask where in your life you feel lacking of love, satisfaction, or pleasure, and then to come swim in the mud with me. The lotus already there, waiting for you to coax it into the light…