The Love & Sex Series – Journal Prompt #2 – Your personal sexuality

This journal prompt series is focused on Love & Sex. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, this can be a week full of emotions for people, and journaling about them will help you work your way through it. Join us!

When you talk about sex, do you feel strong? Attractive? Uncomfortable? Embarrassed?

Our attitudes around sex and sexuality are shaped early on, and can affect everything in our lives from the way we feel about ourselves and our bodies to the way we feel in our intimate relationships. We often learn about sex from our mothers, which can be one of the most richly complicated relationships we have. How your mother feels about sexuality – the expression, nurturing, nourishment and identity of it – likely planted the seeds for how you feel today.

Society and the media, in turn, have impressed upon us a variety of mixed messages about the value and expected virtues of women. The female body is used to sell just about everything, and shame is used to make us feel bad about it.

I was raised in a Roman Catholic household (hello shame and guilt!) by a fairly progressive single mother. Though not a topic usually up for open discussion, there was an openness about sexuality that I carried into my late teens and adult years, muddled through and made an utter mess of, and only now, in my thirties, feel I have a good grasp on.

Prompt: If you could say three things to the world about the nature of your personal sexuality, and really be heard, understood, and accepted, what would you say?


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Stephanie Ostermann

I’m the sort of girl who you meet for coffee and end up pouring your entire heart out to. The friend you come to when you need someone to call it straight. No bullshit. No extras. Just truth.

I’m a communicator. That’s a PC way of saying I like to talk, but I also spend a lot of my time listening, and over the years, I’ve developed a sense for subtext – how one or two words can change your entire message, what people are really trying to say and how to weave the varied layers of your story into one cohesive brand message that your clients fall in love with.

When I'm not acting as editor in chief for Vivid & Brave, you can find me geeking out over words here.

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