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are you at war with your body?

Writer: Ria HopeRia Hope

For so long, I was definitely at war with my body.

 

Like many I'd grown up in a world that was constantly telling me to be smaller, to have a certain type of body, style and appearance to be loved and worthy of love.

 

I wanted to change my body so badly it became obsessive - to shrink her, make her more "acceptable" and "digestible", I wasn't treating myself very well at all - and I had absolutely no relationship with my body as something beautiful or important, let alone something I could be friends with.

 

I truly believed that if I could just look a certain way, then I would be loved, then I would finally be happy. 


Do you relate to that?


After years of internal violence and getting lost in battles with my mind, I decided there had to be another way. I couldn't, no I wouldn't, spend my life hating myself just because the world had taught me to - so I looked for a different way.


That's when working with sexuality came into my life.


Working with sexual energy as my life force energy cracked me open.


Sexuality work taught me how to: 

🌱 Build a relationship with my body

🌱 Unravel shame

🌱 Experience pleasure without guilt

🌱 Find my voice 

🌱 Reclaim my sexuality as mine

🌱 Soften the internal violence

🌱 Meet my shadow with love

 

Because our relationship with our body is our relationship with life, with love, with intimacy itself - when I started listening to my body - really listening - everything changed.

 

I learned how to soften the violence I had directed toward myself, how to honour my body’s wisdom instead of overriding it & how to meet myself with love instead of criticism.




This was gnarly work. 

 

Learning to inhabit my body fully when I'd rejected it for so long, to feel pleasure without guilt, to let myself be seen in my messiness - this was, and continues to be, the real deal. Because working with sexuality has never just been about sex, not at all in fact - it's about learning how to love and accept myself from the inside out.

 

And this is why I created The Journey, my three-month sexuality & intimacy mentoring programme.

 

I created The Journey because I know first had how transformative and deeply impactful working with sexuality is.

 

Because our sexual energy isn’t separate from who we are - it’s woven into everything we do.

 

It’s how we express, how we create, how we take up space in the world - and it's often where most of our shame and disconnection lies.

 

If you resonate with my story, and long for a space where you can come home to yourself - The Journey awaits you.




This three-month, online container isn’t just another self-led course that you got for a tenner off Instagram, this is a truly life-changing, intimate, 1-1 mentorship, tailored perfectly to your specific needs and your story.

 

The Journey is a space to unravel your conditioning, to rediscover who you truly are beneath the noise - and to move at a pace that feels right for you.

 

 

✨ Inside The Journey 


Three deeply transformative modules:

module one | weeks 1-4 opening the journey, understanding your sexual & relational history, personal power, working with sexuality and sexual energy

module two | weeks 6-9 tending to the body, connecting to pleasure, embodiment practices, sensuality & the senses, the erotics of earth and life

module three | weeks 11 - 14 navigating your relationship to others including your relating shadows, communication skills, sex and intimacy with others, relationship types, relating skills, boundaries

 

Explored through: 

  • 12 x personalised 1-1 mentoring calls to meet you where you are

  • Space to work through shame, blocks or conditioning that disconnect you from your body

  • An abundance of tools and practices for nervous system regulation, self-expression, confidence and deeper embodiment

  • Four live masterclasses based on your needs

  • Reflections on capitalism, colonialism and beauty standards and how they shape your connection to your body

  • Rituals and ceremonies for opening and closing to integrate and honour your transformation 


This is a space for deep listening, for realigning with what is true for you, for reclaiming your body, pleasure and voice in a way that feels nourishing and expansive.


I’m offering free consultations and tasters if you’re curious but unsure. This is a chance to feel into whether this journey is the right fit for you.


 
 
 

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