Journal Prompts: Releasing Shame Around Your Personal Pleasure

iloveatiya
2 days ago
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Hello beautiful souls,

Welcome to The Ethereal Pleasure Academy! I am so excited to have you here.

Although I am still actively preparing for the official launch of the Academy, I have been BUBBLING with excitement while creating all of these amazing tools that I simply couldn’t hold back anymore!

One of the best healing practices for me when it comes to navigating life and pleasure has been writing.

Sometimes typing things out can help me clear my mind and other times physically putting paper to pen had been very cathartic.

Sometimes we put rules on ourselves and our healing but in reality every form of healing needs a different kind of tool.

With that being said, there are no rules or expectations when we work together on the following prompts.

These prompts were birthed with softness, intention, and sacredness. They are more than just questions, they are doorways and invitations. Keys to the locked places within you that have been holding shame not meant to be yours.

If you are here, know this: you are not broken, and there is nothing shameful about your desire, your pleasure, or your body's longing to be seen, felt, and honored.

For far too long, many of us have been taught that our sensuality is dangerous, dirty, or something to suppress. These beliefs are often inherited, whispered, or enforced in silence and have buried us beneath layers of guilt and self-denial.

But here, we begin the unraveling.

Please use these prompts as a gentle practice. You might choose one each day or do all of them in one sitting.

Whatever works for you! Light a candle, wrap yourself in something that makes you feel divine, and write from your body… not just your mind.

Let whatever comes up come through you. There is no wrong answer. No shame in what surfaces. Only the truth.

These reflections are a sacred prelude to my upcoming course, "UNASHAMED: Dismantling Sexual Shame & Reclaiming Your Pleasure." This course is a deeper dive into the roots of shame, the systems that uphold it, and the powerful reclamation of your sensual, erotic, and spiritual wholeness. It’s a space for truth-telling, unlearning, and becoming. You are so worthy of that. If you’d like to be the first to know when this full course releases, you can CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR EMAIL UPDATES.

Remember darling, your pleasure is a birthright. Your healing is a revolution. And this…this is the beginning!

ETHEREAL PROMPTS:

“Where did I first learn that my pleasure was something to hide?”

Trace the thread of that story. Who gave it to you? Was it in their voice, their silence, or their rules? Allow yourself to remember without judgment. You are not that story.

“What does shame feel like in my body when I think about pleasure?”

Locate it. Does it tighten your chest? Coil in your belly? Breathe there. What would happen if you gave it permission to soften?

“If my body could speak without fear, what would it say about what it wants?”

Let your body whisper. Let your body roar. No filters. No apologies. This is a conversation between you and your truth.

“What would it mean for me to reclaim pleasure as sacred?”

Explore how pleasure has been framed as sinful, selfish, or secret and what shifts when you reframe it as a birthright, a blessing, a divine connection to self.

“Who do I become when I honor my pleasure without guilt?”

Write a love letter from this version of you. They are radiant. They are free. They do not ask for permission to glow and thrive.

“In what ways can I begin to celebrate my body, today?”

List simple acts of celebration: slow touches, sweet smells, sacred baths, nourishing sounds. Your body deserves reverence, not shame.

“What would I say to the younger version of me who was made to feel dirty or wrong for their desires?”

Speak to little you. Hold them. Tell them the truth: that they are whole, that their desires are not mistakes, and that joy is not a crime.

Beautiful soul, please remember: your pleasure is a prayer. It’s a reclamation, a homecoming, a return to the divine within you. There is no shame in that. Only awakening.

After doing the work, please take a sip of water, stretch, give yourself a hug and take a few deep belly breaths to allow everything to sink in while your body deepens its grounding.

Xoxo

Love Atiya

Founder, The Ethereal Pleasure Academy

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