Welcome to day one of Small Spell for Pleasure, babe! Today we're talking about making space for pleasure.

Prioritizing your own spark, your joy, and your ecstatic desire is self-devotion work. When we make space for ourselves in this way, we take up more room in our lives and in the world. And when we take up space, we reaffirm that we are meant to be here. We're meant to be at ease in our bodies. We're meant to worship the ground we walk on. We're meant to prioritize pleasure for pleasure's sake.

Intentionally carving out space for pleasure might feel sticky if you grew up in an environment where your desires and curiosities weren't nurtured. Many of us, especially the most marginalized, living within late-stage capitalism and white supremacist cis-heteropatriarchy have been taught to de-prioritize our pleasure, and feel burdened by the work of coming home to ourselves. I'm here to tell you that your feelings of resistance, exhaustion, and doubt are valid, babe.

Let's take some small steps back to the amazing, sensual, and magical creatures that we are by creating space for pleasure together!

Supporting Your Pleasure

Spend some time with the following journaling prompts this week as you stretch your capacity for pleasure and get comfortable inquiring about your desire.

• What is your earliest memory of having your desire rejected for being "too much"? How can you affirm for yourself that this desire is firmly within the realm of possibility?
• What do you feel you currently have enough of? Consider how this feeling of enoughness sits in your body — what would it mean for this to be your baseline?
• When was the last time you prioritized your pleasure? What impact did this moment have on your body?

After journaling, snag a sticky note and jot down this question: what would make this moment more pleasurable? Stick this to your medicine cabinet, your fridge, or your bedroom mirror! When we stoke curiosity about our pleasure, we invite pleasure in. 

Share your reflections and questions with us by responding to this email, or tagging us on instagram @seagrapeapothecary! Follow the Pleasure Filled Year Tiktok to stay in touch with Me day-to-day as well <3

xo,

Maria

Pleasure Filled Year is OPEN for Enrollment

If you're ready to turn inward, get to know and celebrate yourself, and learn how to be a pleasure-filled human in 2024, then I'm so excited to welcome you to a very special Pleasure Filled Year: a digital, self-paced program guided by Seagrape's head witch and held by community.

Over the course of our time together, we'll explore different aspects of our lives to do the juicy work of cultivating pleasure, desire, magic, and connection with ourselves on a deeper level. 

Enrollment is open now, babe. In this transformational course, we'll spend time in community, the kitchen, at our Altars, in the bath, and with ourselves practicing new (and ancient) approaches to pleasure and self-devotion. We'll grow to rely on each other, share intimate space through the digital realm, and learn to trust our body's desire for tending. Click below to learn more about this offering.