What if that want, that ache in your body, that electric flicker in your chest when you picture letting go isn’t wrong at all? What if that’s a clue? A doorway into something deeper: your nervous system’s desire to feel safe and free, to trust yourself in the places we don’t talk about in “polite society.” To stop prioritizing everyone else’s comfort and start coming home to your own.

For people-pleasers, survivors, and anyone raised in environments where sexuality was off-limits or tightly controlled, the idea of wanting something, especially something bold, loud, or outside the lines can trigger deep fear.