Kelly Brogan MD

I call this practice Feeling the Yes. ⚡

Find a feeling about anything delightful, big or small, in your life.

Set a timer for 17 seconds.

Let the fullness saturate your entire body with luminous energy, filling you from head to toe, and as you give it your full and appreciative attention, let the sensation expand beyond your skin like radiant joy. ✨

Make a practice of pausing in this way throughout the day. Seize every opportunity to receive when you note something delightful, even if mundane.

That radiant glow will follow you wherever you go as you condition yourself to live in delicious appreciation and train your eyes to see the yes. 💡

Sons, on the other hand, develop a fear of castration by their “shadow mommies,” who are conflicted about their own relationship to the masculine, healthy aggression, and male sexuality; these mothers can take on these boys as subdued spousal surrogates or parentified children. 😶‍🌫️

The castration effect yields mommy-pleasers whose energy has been stuffed into a shame-encased container. 😵‍💫

As a culture, we’re so disconnected from our own inner drives, ignorant of how our sexuality is operating from behind the curtain of our shame, that we project our disavowed parts onto other women (judging, at turns, both the Madonna and the whore) and onto men as being perpetrators against our innocence. 🌀

The good news? ⚡

Restoring our connection to our vital force requires serious deconditioning, but it’s far from impossible. 💛

The healing starts with growing the capacity to relate to the energy & sensations of shame inside our bodies. 🎭

When we both do the work of healing the shame tied to our sexual embodiment, we will each be re-acquainted with our wildness, our creative flow, and our joy. 👏

The enculturated self-abandonment that conditioned us to live dominated by our No will be transformed into a collective Yes. ✨