Shadow Playground

BDSM, Kink and Somatic Healing with Priestess Francesca


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-GUEST BIOGRAPHY-

Priestess Francesca is an internationally renowned relationship coach, sexy educator, dominatrix, and sassy writer on all things hard (cocks and emotions).  She’s walked the path most are too scared to even peek at and is here to turn your repressed fantasies into powerful tools for healing, growth, and straight-up self-acceptance.


Her insights have been featured in Cosmopolitan, Business Insider, Health Magazine, and on top 1% podcasts worldwide.  


In addition, Francesca’s groundbreaking ideas have been shared at universities like Salve Regina and Sarah Lawrence, and at prominent festivals such as Envision, Dom Con, and Toronto Tantra Festival.  


Her mission is simple: Help you own your desires, embrace your full self, and see sex as a powerful tool for transformation. Because pleasure isn’t just play: it’s your power move.


LINKS: 


Trauma, Kink & Somatic Healing: Watch Now For Free

Threshold Ritual: Download the Free Guide

Freak School 1:1 Intensive: Claim Your Permission


PRACTICES:

  • Ask yourself: why do you heal?
  • Make it safe to not be safe.
  • Do a height check before engaging in these practices. Do you know what a yes or a no feels like in your body? When you do, how liberated is your throat around your truth? Can you speak it? How do you respond when someone has a tornado in the face of your truth? How anchored can you remain?
  • Let your fantasy inform your reality by allowing your imagination to be present in it.
  • Fill out feedback sheets after scenes.
  • Negotiate aftercare and integration before a scene.


IDEAS: 


  • Pearls of beauty are often found in the depths of darkness. There is grace and beauty in places that feel scary.
  • If we wholeheartedly believe something doesn’t exist, we won’t look for it.
  • Night vision is needed when looking into dark depths; you have to see beneath the surface.
  • When you meet in a place of darkness where society’s rules can’t hold, you drop deeper and the heart can crack open.
  • Healing is becoming more okay with who you naturally are.
  • Everyone carries desires related to BDSM; we often don’t give ourselves permission to find something hot.
  • A strong goal orientation can become oppressive.
  • You don’t need to figure out exactly what you’re healing—don’t turn healing into recess homework.
  • You have to trust that your desire will reveal its fruit to you.
  • We live in a society full of ideas about what sex should look like.
  • Therapy often tries to move you away from recreating traumatic experiences, away from what hurt you. But what if part of healing is going into it differently?
  • We will hurt each other without meaning to; restorative repair is essential.
  • There are often gendered stereotypes within “conscious sexuality” communities.
  • This is healing work. If we can deepen intimacy when we’re naked, we can deepen intimacy when we’re clothed.


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Shadow PlaygroundBy Ez Bridgman