Period rage = Opportunity for transformation 🙄
Plus, my early access offering for my latest creative project!
Happy Tuesday, love!
Here are 3 tips on being shamelessly sexy this week, inspired by my raging period hormones 😈🩸🤣:
Desire It 💋
You need to understand your feelings before you can know what you truly desire. I was raised in an emotionally anorexic culture, so I often don’t know what I’m feeling. Then I can’t know what I want or need either. Our feelings are signposts. We need to learn how to pay attention to them.
Take a moment to do a feelings check-in. What and how are you feeling? What’s happening in your life that could be creating them? Using this feelings wheel can help. Start in the center and branch outwards. For example, right now I am feeling eager, loving, thankful, hopeful, guilty, disappointed, hesitant, and jealous.
This practice can help ground you in the moment. Return to it whenever you need it.
Honor It 🌞
Yesterday, I felt like I wanted to punch a wall and hide at the same time. When I sat down to journal for five minutes, I managed to write some sense into myself:
“These hard moments are an opportunity to rebuild your foundation. You get to choose. What do you want your foundation to look like? Which friends? Which employment? Which lover? Which passion or life purpose? This is a moment of great transformation.”
It helped me realize that this tough time won’t last forever. I’m now proactively thinking about what I need in my next iteration of life as I gear up to launch my next creative project (read more below!).
Act On It 🗣️
With a clearer vision of your next iteration, what is one small move you can make today to rebuild your foundation and overcome what is holding you back? Will you let go of a relationship? Or recommit to a daily practice?
For example, in my next iteration, I know that I need more self-compassion. I am recommitting to my daily self-compassion practice, which I do as soon as I wake up. I know that I also need more self-belief. I will muster my courage and pursue bigger speaking opportunities, so that my self-worth better reflects that I’m an author with two published books and tools that can help people.
See you next week!
Love,
Tash Doherty
Author of These Perfectly Careless Things
Creator of The Intimacy Journal
Facilitator of Intimacy Writing Workshops
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Extra Treats I’m Working On 🍬
My Next Creative Project: Early Access Update! 🌅
It’s finally time for the big reveal! I’ve built my first online course, and I want to give a select few of my readers early access to its cornerstone module: “Writing to Rekindle Desire.”
This module follows a therapeutic writing methodology developed by Professor James Pennebaker at UT Austin. It is not basic journaling; it’s a specific, 4-session expressive writing protocol shown to help people move past emotional blocks and reconnect with their physical needs. I’ve designed it to help you (or a friend) deeply process what’s holding you back from lusting over your partner(s) endlessly and having the best sex of your life 🌶️.
The deal: I’m giving away $97 worth of course material for free to 5 people. In exchange, I just ask for your honest feedback before the full launch on Teachable.
To apply: Simply reply to this email or comment “VIP” below. If you’re referring a friend, include their email address. I’ll be selecting 5 people this week to join the inner circle! Exciting times 🤩.
Your Deeper, Spicier Read 🔥
This week, I updated my article, “How to Keep a Sex Journal.” I hope you enjoy reading it, and thank you in advance for giving it a click so Google will index the update faster 😈.
What I’m currently listening to 🎶
