When a Woman Is Not in Accord with Her Own Being

What happens when the natural expressions of her life force—her emotions, her intensity, her sexual energies—are not given space to move, but instead are pathologized, managed, and medicated? She becomes clogged.

Like coral reefs suffocating under the weight of toxins, like rivers dammed until the water grows stagnant, like a body starved of oxygen, her being becomes congested with unexpressed power. What should have flowed freely instead builds inside her, layer upon layer, until it erupts as frustration, anxiety, depression, rage.

And then, at the precise moment when her system reaches a breaking point, when the pressure inside her is screaming for release, the world turns to her and says: There is something
wrong with you.

The truth is, all suffering is the result of being out of accord with natural law. There is nothing wrong with you that needs to be fixed. The only thing that needs to be done is the simplest, hardest, most radical act of all: You must stop resisting the force inside you.

Read more in The Erotic View on Trauma