You’ve journaled your heart out, read every self-help book on the shelf, and repeated affirmations until you’re blue in the face. So why does the transformation you crave still feel out of reach?
This is the moment many women find themselves in—standing at the edge of awareness, wondering why their desires haven’t fully taken root. The truth?
Mindset work will get you far. But embodiment work will take you deeper.
In this post, we’ll explore why mindset work isn’t enough on it’s own, how your nervous system holds the keys to lasting change, and the powerful impact embodiment practices can have on your confidence, connection, and pleasure. We’ll also show you how to get started—without adding more to your plate.
Why Mindset Work Isn’t Enough: Awareness Isn’t the Same as Change
Mindset work—like journaling, affirmations, and reframing your thoughts—is a beautiful doorway into self-growth. It helps you understand yourself. But the biggest shifts don’t come from understanding alone.
If you’ve ever told yourself, I am safe, I am calm, I am confident, only to have your body react with tension, anxiety, or shutdown… you’ve experienced the disconnect and why mindset work isn’t enough.
That’s because mindset is a top-down approach. It starts in the brain. But your patterns—especially around pleasure, safety, and intimacy—live in your body.
Your nervous system is where your beliefs are stored, your trauma is remembered, and your capacity for pleasure is regulated. You can’t think your way out of a shutdown body. You have to feel your way through.
My Story: When Mindset Hit a Wall
I was a journal queen in my early days of self-development. I filled notebooks with affirmations and vision boards. I read You Are a Badass, We Should All Be Millionaires, and 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think.
And it helped. I gained clarity. I felt more empowered.
But inside my relationships and my body, nothing really changed.
I still snapped at my partner under stress.
Still struggled to fully receive pleasure.
Still wrestled with feeling “off” in my body—like something was missing.
It wasn’t until I started exploring embodiment practices that everything shifted. Practices that rewired my nervous system, anchored my awareness into my body, and helped me not just know what I wanted—but feel it.
This is the real magic. And it’s why I do the work I do today.
What Is Embodiment Work?
Embodiment is the practice of bringing your awareness into your body and feeling your emotions, sensations, and energy—without bypassing, performing, or escaping.
Where mindset helps you name your fears, embodiment helps you move through them.
Where mindset helps you say “I am confident,” embodiment helps you stand in your confidence.
Where mindset says “I am open to receive,” embodiment says “Let me show you how that feels.”
Why Embodiment Is So Effective
When you’re in an embodied state—feeling grounded, turned on, and fully present—your nervous system is online. Both your sympathetic and parasympathetic branches are activated in balance. Your brain lights up across all regions. And you’re in a highly receptive state where transformation can actually land.
This is why practices like breathwork, movement, pleasure rituals, and yoni meditations aren’t just woo—they’re neurologically sound.
They help you:
- Rewire your responses to triggers
- Increase your capacity for connection and intimacy
- Expand your access to pleasure (even if you feel numb or shut down)
- Build true confidence from the inside out
You’re not just thinking differently—you’re feeling differently. That’s where the long-term change happens.
3 Embodiment Practices That Changed Everything for Me
1. The Honey Pot Meditation (Free)
This was the first practice that helped me feel truly connected to my sensual body. In it, you visualize a golden pot of honey infused with all the energies you want to embody—confidence, softness, magnetism—and gently pour it over each sexual organ, one by one.
It may sound simple, but when done with full presence, it’s transformational. You’ll start to feel where you’re disconnected—and begin reconnecting with love.
2. Self-Love Embodiment Breathwork
No amount of affirmations ever made me love myself the way this breathwork practice did. It uses activating breath to open the nervous system, embodied movement to shift stored shame, and intentional affirmations from a felt state to anchor in true belonging.
This is how we create love, safety, and belonging from within—not just as a concept, but as a lived experience.
You’ll find this practice inside the Sensual Embodiment Collective.
3. Awaken Your Senses Pleasure Practice
This one revealed to me that I had been performing pleasure, not feeling it.
Awaken Your Senses guides you through each of the five senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, smell—while in a fully turned-on state, helping you rewire your brain to associate presence with pleasure. It’s one of the most potent practices for women who say “I enjoy sex, but I know there’s more.”
It’s also foundational for accessing full-body orgasmic states. And yes, it’s in the Collective too.
Why This Matters
Too many women are stuck thinking they’re broken when really, they’re just disconnected from their bodies.
We’ve grown up with a culture that told us to perform, please others, and look the part. Embodiment gives us a pathway back to our truth.
If you’ve been doing “all the right things” but still feel like something is missing, embodiment might be your missing piece.
And if you’re ready to go deeper?
You don’t have to figure it out alone.
The Sensual Embodiment Collective: Your Path to Living This Work
The Sensual Embodiment Collective (formerly Unapologetic Practices) is your guided membership portal for weekly embodiment.
Each month you receive:
- A themed set of practices (breathwork, meditations, sensuality rituals)
- A Queen archetype to guide your journey
- Curated playsheets for reflection
- Embodiment replays you can drop into anytime
- And most importantly—a rhythm that makes it doable
If you’re stuck on where to start, SEC lovingly guides you, week by week, in your devotion to yourself. Over 30 women are already inside.
If you gave yourself just 3 months of weekly sensual practice… what might shift?
Ready to Go Deeper?
If this resonated, you might also love:
- Unlock More Pleasure Without Relying on New Toys or Positions
- The Juicy Truth About Surrender and Orgasmic Bliss
- It’s Not You, It’s Biology: Why Women Take Longer to Orgasm
And if you want more weekly wisdom straight to your ears, listen to my latest episode: Mindset Got You Here — Embodiment Will Take You Further
