Mirror Work: A Shadow Work practice for Rekindling Desire
Do you find yourself avoiding the mirror?
Or when you do catch yourself in the mirror you find yourself humphing and feeling utterly unimpressed?
If you’re avoiding the mirror, you may just be avoiding yourself and your truth.
When it comes to your body, your sensuality, and the spark of desire that you are still waiting to return… you’ve got stories you’re afraid to look at.
And your shadow work practice is all about making peace with the parts of yourself you turn away from.
Mirror work is a reclamation of what you have been hiding from.
It’s a practice I love to share with women who are feeling cut off from connection, dissociated, shut down - but deep inside they are still longing to be seen.
So what is Mirror Work?
Its about making time and space to see yourself in your reflection
You may like to sit or stand in front of your reflection - clothed or unclothed it’s up to ou and where you’re at.
You may like to place your hands on your body where they feel like they need to be, maybe you put one hand on your heart and one over your womb. It’s up to you.
You may start by looking into your eyes, or just gazing over your body, your skin, lines, marks, edges.
You may like to touch, caress, massage, self pleasure or just breathe deeply.
You may like to set an intention - “I am here, I am ready to be seen, I am deserving of my desires”
It can be whatever you need it to be.
Notice and make space for the resistance that rises up.
Listen to your judgement, the grief, the shame, the rage that lives inside you.
You may like to use EFT tapping on this if you know how - or maybe you want to listen and think is this truely how I want to feel about myself.
Be curious about what lies inside - not disgusted.
No pressure to perform or be anything more or less than you are - this is about self acceptance and presence.
Why do Mirror Work for Pleasure & Libido return?
Because if you refuse to feel then you are slowing down your healing dramatically.
You might do all the supplements and meal plans you can find to balance your hormones but find there is still an underlying belief that your body is standing by…
“I’m not worthy of pleasure”
Mirror work teaches your body to recognise:
That you deserve to be witnessed.
That your body isn’t shameful
that your desires are calling out to you to listen to your body.
The mirror invitation
Start tonight.
Maybe after a shower.
Just 2 mins.
Just a moment of being seen, asking what you need and allowing space to be witnessed.
Ready to go deeper?
Join me inside the Pleasure Path - my free teaching circle to guide women back to receiving pleasure in their lives.
Here I will walk you through the physiological needs for hormonal balance, thriving vaginal ecosystems and the shadows at play that keep us stagnant.
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