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Paige Prince's avatar

I’ve been in a practice of holding my pussy with one hand and closing my eyes meditating really listening for what she is telling me, for a few years. A friend introduced me to that. I recommend that practice to everyone with a pussy.

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Eve Imagine's avatar

For all my life, when I'm just laying there, I have one on my puss and one on my heart. It's not purposeful, just comfy and self-lovey.

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Paige Prince's avatar

Totally. It’s natural

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Johanna's avatar

it seems to involve breathing into your pussy- thank you so much for that! I tried that and felt small and kind of stuck behind some wall and disconnected which at first hit sad but right after was excitement because it’s a place to start and I feel SOMETHING. I really appreciate you and your voice. Thank you for sharing you

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Emmabellishment's avatar

oh wow hello i ALSO gave this a go (tonight at the sxsw techno roof dance party) and it changed everything (released from the cool guy olympics, i am free to throw my fucking arms around). suddenly i was large and i had the best time. thank you

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Emmabellishment's avatar

update on this is that it continues to serve

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OnthegoKA's avatar

Really like the Be Big advice. Years ago, as a young and very young appearing, doctor, I often coached myself to “Own the room”, like an actor. Being big is a fantastic analogy for needing to project all of the power, knowledge, warmth, and grace that we all have inside. I saw Valerie June perform “This Little Light of Mine” once and she really captured this feeling.

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Jen's avatar

Thank you for the book recs - I was able to order the two current releases from my library and ordered the third.

PS: THINK BIG!

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jam's avatar

when i saw shop around the corner, i thought this is you've got mail--but with letters! (tom hanks *is* kinda jimmy stewart) this is no secret but when i watch an old movie that another more modern movie was based on, it feels like uncovering a secret

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dignissimosclementia's avatar

Oh thank you for this

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Eve Imagine's avatar

I'm breathing into my pussy now too! I needed that. So tense, here at the computer. Ah, just glancing down, we're all breathing into our pussies! Miranda, we need to do one of those hands across the world thing but it's pussy breathing. Of course, idiots will make jokes and think it's about them (the cis men idiots), but breathing with my puss (as opposed to pussy breathing? Feels different, but could be the English teacher in me, as in the me me, can't really separate, so why say stuff like that, me?) isn't just relaxing, it is bigger, like making me fill up, as you wrote, taking up that space. It's also fun to practice some Kegels. I got the books on my list. Can't wait!

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Ivy Blanche's avatar

thank you for the reads, i’m currently in a kind of therapy that involves me reading everything about trauma and intergenerational trauma and how you get out of the cycles. the books that are recommended here and of course all fours are part of the process of healing for me, but much more positive and hopeful and way more readable. it fills me with joy and warmth in this era of pleistocenic weirdness. also, it gives a sense of a new normalcy and community for people who fell out of normal normalcy lately, a sense that there’s a chance that we’re actually going to be okay.

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