by Sonja Semyonova | Apr 25, 2023 | Emotional Digestion, Generosity, Intimacy, Journal, Nurturance, Receiving, Relationships, Risk, Self-love, Sensuality, Space, Strength, Surrender, The Spiritual Side of Sex, Vulnerability
This piece is part of my monthly series, The Spiritual Side of Sex. Read more like it here. It’s a known, but often unsaid, thing: sex opens us up in a way that nothing else can. Physically, emotionally, spiritually – we come open. Sometimes we are ripped open....
by Sonja Semyonova | Apr 11, 2023 | Confusion, Freedom, Journal, Protection, Relationships, Risk, Vulnerability
Before I go feral. Before I go make my home in a moss-covered hovel. Before I leave behind my lipstick and mirrors and stop pulling out the tiny branches that I’ve captured in my hair while running naked through the trees. Before I forget the joy of lounging in the...
by Sonja Semyonova | Apr 4, 2023 | Journal, Nurturance, Protection, Receiving, Relationships, Risk, Strength, Surrender, Vulnerability
What would it take to really heal? A weeklong retreat? A five-figure coaching package? Finally confronting that person? Sure, those things can help. But if you truly want to know what it means to heal, there’s something else to toss into your cauldron: vulnerability....
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 22, 2023 | Freedom, Journal, Protection, Relationships, Resistance, Risk, Sensuality, Strength, Surrender, The Spiritual Side of Sex
Sex, in its simplest form, is a playspace. This playspace is desperately needed by adults who typically don’t have a lot of ways in which to find the kind of playfulness we used to know. Our grown up days are filled with responsibility. Taking care of others, paying...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 8, 2023 | Freedom, Journal, Protection, Receiving, Relationships, Resistance, Risk, Sensuality, Space, Strength, Surrender, The Spiritual Side of Sex
(A story of resistance and surrender) The next morning it rained. I buttoned up a warm jacket and set out to find my feet again. Sleepless eyes squinting at the fine mist, I walked with the company of the question: had it really happened? It had. You made me want what...
