It’s Friday! Let’s Fuck Shit Up Together!
Happy Friday, lovely! It’s time to fuck some shit up!
Twice a month, in accordance with the lunar cycles, we gather in circle here and in your inbox for a salaciously good time. We talk sex, self-care, and reclaiming what has always been ours via ritualized practices and hexing shitty politicians. And for my entrepreneurial babes out there, you’re getting a little bonus sales tip, too.
Why? Because I want to combine everything in my varied background into one place to offer my highest and greatest good to you. Take what resonates. Leave the rest.
🔥 SEX
In this segment, I hand you a little tip to keep your sexual health in line or spice up your bedroom. Why? Because I sold sex toys for 12 years and received training from some of the best sexologists in the world. Any products mentioned are available HERE.
Lights on or lights off?
I’ve found that most people have a strong preference one way or the other. Often, though not always, this is tied to body confidence and the willingness to be seen. And if you’re a lights-off person because of body image limitations, please reply to this email. I’ve got one 1:1 coaching spot opening later this month and I’d love to offer it to you.
Whether you’re lights-on or lights-off, my invitation to you this week is to experiment with the opposite.
💡What does it feel like to experience a sexual moment with a different level of light than you normally have?
💡What do you notice when the light is more or less available than your typical sexual experience?
💡If you normally have the lights on, with them off are any of your other senses heightened?
💡If you normally have the lights off, what’s it like to fully see what’s happening in front of you? What’s it like to fully see your partner(s) (if applicable)?
Give yourself the opportunity to explore this difference of light with curiosity and see what you can learn about yourself.
💖 SELF-CARE
In this segment, I combine my background as a massage therapist with my training as a coach to offer you tips for physical, mental, and emotional well-being. My personal recommendation for physical movement is the Pilates-based mat work offered by Tandy Gutierrez. Not only has Tandy’s work helped me navigate living in an auto-immune body, but over the years, this has helped me more than anything else to heal my nervous system. Check out her Unicorn Wellness Studio HERE.
When was the last time you had a cancer screening? Whether for breast cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, or any other kind of cancer, early detection saves lives.
Granted, some cancer screenings are age-dependent, but if you’re within the appropriate age range and it’s been a while, BOOK AN APPOINTMENT.
Seriously. Take a moment NOW and book an appointment.
I’ll wait.
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Did you do it?
If you’re in the KC metro (or within driving distance) and need a mammogram, make sure you check out the mammogram party I’m hosting at The Littlest Bakeshop on Saturday, July 27. Book your appointment directly with Diagnostic Imaging Center for their mobile coach at the event. And if you’re going to be there, TELL ME! 😍
Whether you’re local to me or not, if it’s helpful for you to have some accountability for booking an appointment, TAG ME ON SOCIAL to let me know you’ve done it. I want to celebrate you for taking exquisite care of yourself. 💕
💸 SALES
Again, I sold sex toys for 12 years. In the direct sales industry. I was fucking good at it. I earned a ton of incentives. And I trained hundreds of other women how to do the same thing. Now, I’ve taken my experience from that career, my experience with a brick-and-mortar massage practice with massage membership sales, and from building my coaching practice to develop a sales and business membership community to help other entrepreneurs redefine their relationship to sales, systems, and strategy so they can grow in a sustainable way. In this segment, I’m offering all my entrepreneurial love bugs a sales tip. Skip this part if it doesn’t apply to you. And if it does? Get my free 7-day course to find and hone your authentic sales voice at KeliLynJewel.com/voice.
Something interesting I’ve found amongst new entrepreneurs (or those considering entrepreneurship) is that they think starting a business means they need to shut themselves off to their passions, or that they need to hide their values from the world. That there’s some sort of wall that needs to go up between their personal beliefs and their business.
And while that may be helpful for some people, for the most part, I vehemently disagree.
People want to know who they’re doing business with. Consumers want to know where their money is going, beyond the transaction they have.
That’s why boycott lists exist. They reveal the values upheld by what corporations fund.
As a business owner, your clients want to know what you stand for. They deserve to be able to do business with someone who aligns with their values. And you deserve to have clients who align with yours.
So if you’ve been holding yourself back from talking about the causes you support out of fear that it’ll damage your business, I want to encourage you to reconsider.
This doesn’t mean you have to plaster your professional social media accounts with political candidates. And I’m not suggesting you go full-on bullhorn (though I’m also not anti shouting out your affiliations and causes).
Just stop hiding your beliefs out of fear and thinking you’re somehow benefitting from that. Because you’re not.
Instead, take an honest inventory of your values — as a person — and weave those into the values you uphold through your business.
✨ SPELL
Because this newsletter is sent out in conjunction with the lunar cycles, this segment offers you a moon ritual. Prior to all the stuff listed above, I studied art history as a way to develop an understanding of world religions. Since childhood, I’ve been on a spiritual journey to develop my own relationship to the divine. In no way do I have any interest in telling you what to believe or not believe. That’s for you. It’s personal. And for me, it’s cyclical. My spiritual practices have changed my relationship to time in such a beautiful way that I want to offer you a bit of that shift here by recognizing the cycles of the moon in order to hand you an opportunity to incorporate cyclical time into your experience of life. I work with many spiritual mentors, and ritualized practices are incorporated into the foundation of Project Reclamation—my equity-centered membership community—as well as the Reclamation Weekend retreats I host. And when you joined this email list, you received a Reclamation ritual from me. Again, I don’t care what you believe in or don’t believe in. Paying attention to the moon will help repair your relationship with time, which capitalism has fucked up for all of us. If you’d like to dive deeper into esoteric spirituality, I recommend checking out the Magical Mentoring program offered by Tandy, who I mentioned in blue above, for her Pilates work. That info is HERE.
Across time and culture, the moon has often represented our inner world of emotional connection, spiritual journey, and relationship to self. Aligning myself with the cycles of the moon has offered me the added bonus of shifting my relationship with time. When we allow ourselves the space for rest and renewal, rather than keeping ourselves stuck in the constant hustle & grind mentality of late-stage capitalism, our perspectives on what’s influential, what’s valuable, and what’s worthy of our energy have space to become deeper and more personal.
This week, I’m offering you a new moon ritual to hand you a little piece of that.
This doesn’t have to take a long time. The idea is to be present with yourself and focused on your full experience during the ritual. Pay attention to the sensations you feel during the ritual and make note of them afterward. I’d love to hear about your experience if you’d like to share!
NEW MOON RITUAL
The new moon is an excellent time to focus on what you want to create, achieve, or accomplish. You can get fancy with your rituals, and if you’re into altar work, crystal work, or any other kind of spiritual work, please feel free to incorporate it. Personally, I like to keep things simple.
Supplies: paper, pen, glass of water that you’ll drink
Steps:
Take a few minutes and ground yourself, whatever that means to you – whether that’s a few deep breaths, listening to a guided meditation, washing your face, putting your feet in the grass, masturbating, or anything else.
Write out what it is you want to create, achieve, or accomplish. This can be big or small. It can be for the lunar cycle beginning with this new moon, the next six months, the next calendar year, or a lifelong dream.
Read what you’ve written—out loud—over your glass of water. Then drink the water.
The cancer new moon today is one of the most lovely of the year for self-care and intention-setting. So even if you’re not normally a ritual person, I want to invite you into a state of contemplation for what you want to create within the second half of 2024.
Take a moment to yourself to get quiet and go within.
✨What do you want the rest of your year to look like?
✨What do you want it to feel like?
✨How do you want to show up to it?
And if you want to consider these questions while doing something that you consider self-care, even better! (Extra bonus points if that self-care is in or near water. 🌊)
✊ STATECRAFT
Politics is a not-so-secret passion of mine. I used to run a couple of political organizations here in Kansas City and lobby at the state level in Missouri with Planned Parenthood. The 2016 election is what led me into coaching after I lost my mind and a therapist told me I had “excellent coping skills” because I was focusing all my time and energy on political volunteerism. And in this segment, we might get a little petty. But we’ll always be aiming to reclaim our power from the cis-heteronormative, puritanical, white supremacist patriarchy we currently live under in this hellscape of climate change and late-stage capitalism. Here, I’ll offer suggestions on candidates to donate to, people to follow, podcasts to subscribe to, and answer the question of WHO ARE WE HEXING? (Josh Hawley is always on that list.)
This week, we’re hexing all of the conservative members of the US Supreme Court, for obvious reasons.
From overturning the Chevron doctrine to granting presidents the immunity of kings, they continue to prove how political SCOTUS has become and how much more respect they have for the folks padding their pockets than the American people they’re supposed to be serving and the oaths they’re supposed to be upholding.
And rather than being an apolitical branch of the United States government, offering a neutral place for weighing out constitutional law, these six have turned the highest court in the land into a playground for the far right to dismantle decades of progress and precedent.
Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas: A hex on all your houses.
*This segment is not intended to promote harm to anyone in any way. I don’t hex people in real life. ✊
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That’s it for this week, lovely! I appreciate you offering me space in your day. And I look forward to seeing you fuck some shit up today! ❤️🔥
-xoxo-
Keli
P.S. I want to invite you to Project Reclamation, a private, equitable, self-coaching community, to explore the most expansive version of yourself. Inside, you’ll receive tools for nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and cognitive self-coaching. Plus, you’ll have access to Master Certified Coaches to receive written coaching as well as live coaching via group calls. And you’ll be able to join in on an integrated book club, as well as both virtual and in-person community celebrations.
Maybe life coaching has felt out of reach for you in the past, as it’s often relegated to those hoarding enough wealth to be bored. But self-discovery doesn’t actually come in Tiffany boxes, and it is my goal to make healing and growth accessible to everyone.
Inside this space, we’re committed to reclaiming our bodies, our time, our joy, and our lives from all the cultural conditioning that has left us feeling less than. And we’re doing it in a vibrant, supportive community that is truly open to everyone who shares these values. (Though cis-het white Christian men may struggle a bit.)
Registration is now open, so click the link to join. See you on the inside!
