Guilty Pleasure

In a culture that chases constant productivity, achievement, and goals, being in a regular cycle as a woman — being truly attuned to your womb, your rest, your creativity — becomes almost impossible.

So many of us carry the belief that rest is not allowed.

So when we’re on our period, and our body wants to rest, we feel guilty for wanting to rest.

We resist rest.

We attach guilt to the period itself, to the womb.

We feel guilty for needing to slow down, to be alone, to pause — so we don’t allow ourselves to do it.

And when we hold guilt in the womb, we deny ourselves not just rest, but pleasure, creativity, and creation itself. All of those things become inaccessible, because doing them just for the sake of doing them brings up guilt.

So we avoid rest.

We avoid receiving pleasure.

We avoid creating for joy.

The same thing happens inside a man’s body.

There is a lot of guilt in men’s genitals.

Because if you express desire, there are consequences.

So you guilt yourself for having desire.

Or you suppress desire completely — because expressing it might have a cost.

You either feel guilty for wanting it, or afraid to own it.

This is how we lose our power.

This is how we are stripped of our energy — our sexuality, sensuality, our primal force — the energy that drives 99% of our unconscious decisions.

When you strip humanity of their right to pleasure, you create slaves.

So I ask you:

How many of you are carrying guilt in your bodies?

Where do you feel it?

What do you feel guilty for?

Guilt is anger directed toward oneself.

So what is it?

Why are you angry at yourself for resting?

What do you think would happen if you allowed yourself to rest?

If you let yourself receive pleasure?

If you created just for the sake of it?

What consequences are you trying to avoid?

What bad thing do you imagine would happen if you allowed yourself to slow down?

Who is this being inside of you — the one who still wants to be seen and heard, the one who knows that pleasure is a birthright?

Who is the voice inside that wants to explode and scream out to the world:

“Wake the fuck up, people — you are slaves.”

Some of you might think, “I don’t resonate with this.”

And that means one of two things:

Either you already live a life where pleasure, rest, and creativity are a natural part of every day… and you enjoy your life.

Or… you are simply afraid to admit that you’re living a life that is just passing you by — because you’re chasing something that is not important. You think that the thing you’re chasing will give you love, pleasure, connection, creativity…

But the truth is — all of it already exists.

Between you and yourself.

Between you and nature.

Between you and one other person.

You’ve been tricked so badly to believe that happiness, love, pleasure, and connection are somewhere outside of you, or further away than they really are.

To me it looks like humanity is plugged into a system that pumps energy out of people through guilt — through the guilt attached to your body.

So next time you feel like you’re running around and it’s hard to slow down, I ask you — slow down.

Feel the fear.

Feel the guilt.

Find it in your body — that tension, that enormous charge running your life through the backdoor of your subconscious.

Wake up, people.

It’s time to set yourself free.